I am definitely a habitual self-defense liar from childhood, mainly in quick-moving social interactions that I wasn't expecting to have.

I hate it. And the lies are always about the dumbest, most insignificant and forgivable things (though they would have been unforgivable things to my parents) and usually it's so much easier to say what is true from the beginning.

But I'm doing it less. And I think the lying is closely related to perfectionism, too. Not perfect? Lie.