Imagination/ untruths in every day conversation

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My 10 year old boy who is an aspie makes up tall tales in journal at school, in therapy and every day situations.

Tells his friend that his brother did jail time when he was 3. Huh?

Tells the therapist he took a plane to England and returned on a ferry. Huh?

Do not know when to believe him or take his word.

It is constant. Some obvious. Sometimes not.

Creates havoc.

Is this aspie trait?

I don't think so. Some of us can be painfully honest.

Not an aspie trait. The boy wants attention, and is willing to make things up to get it. My NT kids do it a lot more often than my AS son.

This could be a serious problem. Then again he could have a good imagination and develop into a writer. My daughter nearly had the cops come over when she told someone about the abduction and rape of a classmate by the prinicpal. Never happened. She just decided to one up her cousins and did so in dramatic fashion. My drama queen. We had a long talk over this and have had no other major issues. But I will say her creative writing papers have some potential.

It could be an attention thing or could be testing the definitions of lie vs story. My son isn't very sneaky but he tries awful hard to be. He "lies" but it's very obvious. A lot of the outrageous stories, like what was listed comes from scripts he's heards, movies, nintendo games. He tries to apply fictional settings to his own environment.

Maybe it is how he entertains himself. Our son would write crazy stories about us in his journal and his mind was always going.

Chris has an awesome imagination and I know that he has embellished some things in his writings but so far he has either been fairly true to life or very outrageous (like writing that Qui-Gon Jinn is expected to come and take him to jedi training).