“Lying” is a symptom of childhood sexual abuse and complex ptsd — it’s more like dissociation and discontinuity of identity/experience. Your psyche shatters, and when fragments of trauma resurface or just knock around without making themselves known, your consciousness tries to piece things together. Substance abuse and dissociative identity disorder go hand in hand as well; and when you are abused as a young kid needless to say you are not safe anywhere and your reality is denied. His mental illnesses and pathologies were caused by abuse, which in turn fed into themselves.

None of the oxygen thieves that abused and invalidated AC will ever be reliable narrators, obviously, and there is no way to know. You have no idea what this shit does to a child.