‘What’s a lie your parents told you that you didn’t figure out until you were an embarrassed adult?’ – 21 people whose folks were taking the mickey

12.

‘The crusts of bread were where all the nutrients are.’
–Callimingo

13.

‘My eldest is 13, they and their siblings believe that Bob is short for Bobert. I will not be telling them differently.’
–tent_tickles

14.

‘If wiped my nose upwards with a sleeve or tissue, I was going to turn my nostrils inside out and I would drown when it rains. Apparently my dad’s brother had this happen to him and had to have little weights implanted in his nostrils so that they would sit normally.

I fully believed this for a good year. I was about six.’
–Proper-Throwaway-23

15.

‘Don’t watch too much TV or your eyes will turn square (I would look in the mirror to see if they were going square lmao).’
–Analessi

16.

‘The cable doesn’t reach our house.

For context this was the mid- 1980’s. The neighbours two houses down had cable – it’s where we went to watch Fraggle Rock. But parents said that is where the cable stopped. We apparently lived on the cable-free island in the middle of the neighbourhood. I totally believed them. I had the ‘wait a minute’ epiphany only about 10 years ago.’
–ButterflyOld8220

17.

‘Not exactly a lie since he really believed it himself, but my dad always told me that the eyeball monster in Pan’s Labyrinth was David Bowie and I believed it and would tell other people. He obviously got mixed up with The Labyrinth, but idk why he specifically thought he was the eyeball dude.’
–ur_eating_maggots

18.

‘That people with tattoos are all bad.’
–Scepafall

19.

‘My father – who was a lawyer – told me with a totally straight face, in a high degree of detail, that every year, dozens of people are killed on theme park rides, but that it couldn’t be reported by the media because the government put a D-notice on the whole thing, and the families were just paid out and forced to remain silent about it all.

He told me that when I was about 10, and fuck knows how many credulous kids I repeated it to until I was a teenager and someone finally called it out as bullshit. And when I told my dad hey, nice joke, you had me believing that shit for years and I made a dick of myself at school about it, he cracked up in tears of laughter and said he’d forgotten ever telling me that in the first place.’
–Sweeper1985

20.

‘We had rules for checkers (about double jumping and super kings) that I didn’t realise were just house rules until I played a partner in my mid 20’s. I felt so dumb.’
–siritachi87

21.

‘My mom told me that Chuck E. Cheese was only open for birthdays. If it is not your birthday, and you have not been invited to a birthday party, they will not let you in.

She’s a brilliant lady and I’m co-opting the lie when I have kids.’
–scorn-on-the-con

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