Lies your parents told you

[Will Graham]

that you believed for a long time, or maybe not so long a time. You know the ones they mainly told to keep you safe, or because they couldn't be bothered explaining something to you

I hope this thread doesn't exist already

My mother told me that we couldn't call competition lines on our telephone, our phone didn't have the right numbers. I believed her totally, it wasn't till I was around 17 looking back that I copped. 0800 could be achieved by pressing zero-eight-zero-zero

If I forgot to take my inhalers three times in a row I would die and not go to heaven because it'd be my own fault

In my grandmother's house there is a really nice bathroom on the second floor. To stop us going up to use it, my dad told us there was a lion in it. It's an old house, so I believed my mother when she said the creaks at night were the lion trying to escape

My cat, Rupert, ran away because I had stolen chewing gum from a shop and cats hate thieves

If I did not blow my nose properly on a hankie my brain would twist out of shape

If you don't brush your teeth, they'll rot out of your head and no girls will ever kiss you. Which sounded ideal at the time tbh

Eating chocolate gave you pimples

 

[Shael-BurizaDo]

this one is kind of wierd :/....my parents lied to me about the city/state of my birth, and throughout my childhood always referenced me to a hometown so I could relate to things...sports/music, etc...it wasn't until my early 20's that they confessed the true place of my birth, and the true heritage of my actual hometown. they said it was because we are extremely "loyal" in my family and that it was neccesary for my well-being, i'm not sure yet how I feel about it, but it does confuse things for me A LOT.

it actually messes with my memories, and sometimes I feel the creep of a fog, maybe not in my mind, but in my dreams. yea, pretty wierd

also, they've been telling me an assortment of other random lies which i now see through, but that one sticks with me pretty hard

 

[Bambi]

I tell Ellie that when the icecream van plays the music, its ran out of icecream, i nicked that idea off someone after hearing someone used to say it to them as a kid. i thought it was brilliant

 

[Toshiya]

I tell Ellie that when the icecream van plays the music, its ran out of icecream, i nicked that idea off someone after hearing someone used to say it to them as a kid. i thought it was brilliant

My parents told me this one too :dave:

My parents didn't really tell me many lies I lied to them too. I stopped believing in the tooth fairy/santa claus when I was about 5 and I got up for a drink on Christmas Eve and found them putting the presents under the tree. But I carried on pretending I believed in them so I got £1 every time I lost a tooth. It worked quite well when I was that age £1 was still a decent amount of money.

 

[Lirael]

I stopped believing in the tooth fairy/santa claus when I was about 5 and I got up for a drink on Christmas Eve and found them putting the presents under the tree. But I carried on pretending I believed in them so I got £1 every time I lost a tooth. It worked quite well when I was that age £1 was still a decent amount of money.

Haha, I did that.

I can't remember many lies my parents told me. :S Dad used to scare me a bit with stories at halloween...Oh! Mum told me that she and my cat Coco rode on a broom at halloween. Hehe, I do remember that one.

I think that what my parents have said are more distorted versions of the truth. They'd probably tell me things that were in their favour, but omit the bits that were in mine. I only mean small things, btw, like whether or not there's chocolate in the cupboard (there was a point in time when Mum and Dad each took some away for their own safekeeping to eat later ). My parents have never lied about anything serious. To my knowledge.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

I can't remember any lies they told me that stuck with me very long.

I always learned the truth rather quickly.

I will always remember this one time when me and my brother were playing with our walkie talkies and my mum must of heard me saying something mean to my brother and said that the police would come and find me if I kept being naughty.

I didn't believe her at first until she said that they could hear me on the walkie talkie and I remember freaking out and hiding my walkie talkie in a drawer. >.<

She made me cry and hide under my bed.

 

[Marquis of Granby]

my dad used to tell me that general idi amin was my real dad but him and my mum found me in a bin and adopted me.

my mum let my sister tell me that there was a lion under my bed who would eat my feet if i fell asleep. naturally i found it very difficult to sleep !

apart from the obvious ones like santa and the tooth fairy and god that is all.

 

[Shael-BurizaDo]

ugh, just remembered this one...

my mother used to have us children in the house serve her breakfast in bed on Mother's Day. Several years in a row she used to describe, in detail, how she had another house, another husband, and more kids to visit her on Mother's Day.

She claimed to have another family and life that she created, who had a step-mom that she was friends with, and that they sometimes missed her, and needed her to come say hello on Mother's Day...then she would disapear for a while...

still not sure about that one, kinda makes me super sad to think about lol

 

[Squid]

The only lie I can remember my mother telling me was that God was real. Though I quickly figured out she was lying.

I don't think they've told me any other tricky little things though.

 

[Tyler Breeze]

They said my grandmothers would be nice.... . I believed the usual stuff

Santa: I was crushed. After I got a letter from him at the age of 7 saying I was on the nice list.... That jerk. So my parents wrote the letter, how nice!..... Fudge that. Oh well.

Tooth Fairy: damn it! You did it again dad! I thought for sure she was real. To top it all off he usually ended up taking the dollar back.

Easter Bunny: what the hell? I never believed in the Easter bunny. That's just crazy. But go figure this one is real. Damien Sandow was the Easter bunny. Sigh.

 

[The Master]

Santa ;_; Easter Bunny ;_; Tooth fairy ;_;

These are the main ones that ALMOST EVERY kid had lied to about...
I never did get the stork story, my mommy said I came from her tummy ^.^ which TECHNICALLY was true... It's tradition mostly though... SURE it's lying, but it was fun thinking that there was a man in a red suit who gave you presents, a fairy who gave you money for teeth, and a bunny who gave you candy was real So I wanna say thank you Mom and Dad. Thank you for lying to me