While at playgroup with my children, a mother told me that her youngest had started to deny doing naughty things. She would be naughty and when her mum told her off, she would say "it wasn't me".
Maybe children learn to tell lies as part of early development, which becomes eventually, the social skill of using the "white lie", as well as lying to avoid trouble.
Since autism involves late development of social skills and is also ascociated with an inability to use the "white lie", maybe, when an autistic teenager has a period of lying about everything, they are learning to lie.
I certainly have become, say, more selective with the truth over the years. I still favour the truth because hints and body language are lost on me.
Perhaps it is just a late development of the social skill of lying, and needs to be practised, as does any other skill. If he gets angry about it, when you challenge him, he is perhaps, more angry with himself for failing to get it right, than with you.
While at playgroup with my children, a mother told me that her youngest had started to deny doing naughty things. She would be naughty and when her mum told her off, she would say "it wasn't me".
Maybe children learn to tell lies as part of early development, which becomes eventually, the social skill of using the "white lie", as well as lying to avoid trouble.
Since autism involves late development of social skills and is also ascociated with an inability to use the "white lie", maybe, when an autistic teenager has a period of lying about everything, they are learning to lie.
I certainly have become, say, more selective with the truth over the years. I still favour the truth because hints and body language are lost on me.
Perhaps it is just a late development of the social skill of lying, and needs to be practised, as does any other skill. If he gets angry about it, when you challenge him, he is perhaps, more angry with himself for failing to get it right, than with you.
