I like when little kids lie not to be malicious but because they’re literally figuring out how true/false conditions work. Like they learn to talk and then they’re like wait… I can just say ANY words, huh.
Sometimes when a child tells a “random” lie I just behave as if I accept their statement unequivocally and 9/10 times within five minutes they’re like “miss Study 🥺🥺🥺 I am so sorry. I lied to you. My dog ISN’T actually purple and older than my grandpa😔😔😔”
Child: my real name is actually [sillier version of their name]
Me: wow, really?
Child: no
Me: awwww, I was so excited to tell you that it’s a crazy coincidence because my full name is actually [same format]
Child: REALLY?
Me: no
I think maybe one of the most chaotically unhinged categories of human behavior might be “things children do simply because they just realized for the first time that they can”
I mean. To be fair, if I suddenly ended up in a world where i had no real concept of how the natural laws worked and which things were possible, and I was constantly discovering new abilities I didn’t know I had… I’d probably try them out pretty chaotically too?