Dear Saraswati:

You are very welcome, and please, do not worry about your posts being long, they are not too long for me, and I have the time and the interest.

You wrote: “I want to understand him and his situation more”- I will be glad to help you with this aim by suggesting possibilities that you may not have considered:

He told you that he “went to private school and later in life.. gained a degree in Politics”- did you see any evidence of that private school he supposedly attended, or any evidence of his university degree?

“maybe he knows that he isn’t capable with his head injury? – did you see any evidence that he had an accident? Any medical evidence of any injuries as a result of an accident?

He has already revealed his dishonesty, lying to you- there is no reason to trust that what he tells you or anyone-  is true. Look for evidence.

It may very well be that because he feels that being a truck driver is an inferior job (“just a truck driver”), and that he is “inferior to” your friends who “are successful in their field of work”- he made up having had a head injury, so to explain that he was not.. born inferior, but became so because of an accident- a misfortune, as opposed to an inherent inferiority.

“He has never been to see any Doctor regarding how the accident affected him”- if his head was hurt in the course of an accident, wasn’t his head examined when he was hospitalized right after the accident? Does he have any papers from the hospital, a receipt of payment made, anything?

anita