I met this girl in fourth grade or thereabouts, and we were kinda-sorta friends. She was the type of "friend" to hang out with you and then proceed to talk shit about you and your family to the entire class. We fell out of contact when I switched schools, but we ended up going to the same high school.
Our kinda-sorta friendship continued, and grew stronger once she started paying more attention to me and my ex after learning that I was an "uwu lesbian." She's always been a compulsive liar, but I had chalked more of that up to age rather than personality. Some of the things she told me about during this time included an "ongoing court case" against her sexually abusive, professional clown (no shit) father, and frequent incidents of assault by co-workers, one of which caused her to lose her attraction to men (this is unbelievable only because all of this came to light a day after she was in on a conversation with me and my gf about our experiences relevant to that).
Due to the fickle nature of high school relationships, my girlfriend and I eventually broke up, whereupon my kinda-sorta friend began pursuing my attention relentlessly. She eventually backed off when I told her I had no interest in dating anyone at that time, but we stayed friends until graduation, when we began seeing less and less of each other. We still texted fairly frequently, and I followed her on social media. When we were 19-20 or so, she came out as FtM. I supported "Elliot," even though the whole thing didn't sit well with me. We met up at one point during that time, and "he" told me an incredibly OTT story about a massive drug overdose and an inpatient rehab stint that led "him" to realize "his" true identity. This was at the height of it being trendy to be trans, and I thought, "Yeah, whatever," but I was not in a position to be running people off at that time.
Shortly after "coming out," we fell out of contact again. "He" had begun talking about a vague surgery, more or less heavily implying that it was gender reassignment and even beginning a GoFundMe campaign to pay for it, and then vanished off of social media for a long time. Recently, she has returned with gastric bypass surgery and an entire story about how she "was never really gay or trans; her abusive ex-husband forced her to be a man, honest!!!" while seeming to forget that she told me and likely others an entirely different story. I haven't called her out on it; I just sit back and watch the shitshow. In all honesty, I feel bad for her. She needs help to try and establish some sort of identity and be content with normal amounts of attention like everyone else.