What were your childhood lies?

[LadyDestani]

Just the usual Santa, Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy for me. My mom never really lied to us about anything, which I appreciated. My dad would make jokes about seeds growing in our bellies or our faces sticking a certain way, but he always laughed when he said it and we knew not to take him seriously anyway. Unless he was mad, everything out of his mouth was a joke.

I also spent a lot of time reading books and looking through the family collection of encyclopedias, so it was hard for anybody to trick me because I had such a curious nature that if someone said something questionable I would just go look it up.

 

[.: Meri :.]

Coming back to add that I had the usual holiday ones as well (Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy, etc.), but I actually remembered another one—does it count if you took a silly joke from a children's cartoon dead seriously? Because The Fairly Oddparents made me believe that sweater vests were widely considered to be super attractive and peak fashion until I was like, fifteen. I actually have nothing against sweater vests, personally.

 

[StarlitGlitch]

One of my cousins told me that the accent mark in Pokémon was there because it's Spanish.

She also tried to tell me when I got WW (she already had GC) that if you don't eat fruit you'll get sick.

And many other random lies haha.

 

[Belle T]

One of my cousins told me that the accent mark in Pokémon was there because it's Spanish.

She also tried to tell me when I got WW (she already had GC) that if you don't eat fruit you'll get sick.

And many other random lies haha.

She could have at least told you something useful, like how to unlock Sonic in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

 

[Corrie]

That being an adult was awesome lol. Not that being an adult fully sucks as there are some benefits, but overall, I'd take being a kid again, even with its downsides.

 

[TurnipBell20]

My mom ate some candy and told me my teddybear ate it. She told me she fooled me a couple minutes later, but I still believed my teddybear could eat. But in general my parents have always been honest to me.

 

[tiffanistarr]

ya know the usual stuff like being older is fun, it gets easier as you get older, you have to figure out what you’re going to do for the rest of your life by the time you’re 18, good grades mean you’ll be successful, that it’s illegal to kill a praying mantis, that i would marry nick jonas… the usuals

 

[-Blue-]

My dad told me that it was illegal to drink root beer, cheerwine, or ginger ale before you were eight years old, because they were "mildly alcoholic". I proceeded to get mad at anyone who offered me those drinks before I turned eight, and when I finally did have root beer around my eighth birthday, I actually started stumbling around and acting drunk.
Only then did my dad fess up, ahahaha.

lol! Reminds me of my sister freaking out whenever someone would drink and drive. IE drink water or cola when driving and would start to cry saying how we were going to get arrested.

My parents told me that pea soup was ninja turtle soup. I don't know why that made me want to eat it more. Like did they throw Mikey in a blender? Totally radical dude!

 

[Alienfish]

My mom ate some candy and told me my teddybear ate it. She told me she fooled me a couple minutes later, but I still believed my teddybear could eat. But in general my parents have always been honest to me.

That sounded oddly weird, I mean there are toys that literally poop candy so

Also yeah who didn't have Easter Bunny and Tooth Faerie, but I do think they were more a fun way of getting money/candy etc. even if you know it was your parents tbh.

 

[Xara]

i loved the story of peter rabbit growing up, to the point that my mom and grandmother added him to the list of magical characters (santa, easter bunny, tooth fairy) that could visit me. i can’t remember if this was reserved for special occasions or just whenever my grandmother felt up to it, but she’d have me leave 3-5 baby carrots on the kitchen table before i went to bed, and when i would wake up (usually sometime in the middle of the night since i was so excited lol), the carrots would either be mostly or completely gone (sometimes she left a half-bit carrot or two to make it look more realistic), and there’d be a few treats waiting for me. they were never anything amazing; usually just a note, a piece or two of candy, some change, etc, but it made little me so happy. i would literally go to bed on peter rabbit nights with the same level of excitement i would on christmas eve or the night before easter. i was devastated when i found out that peter rabbit wasn’t actually visiting me, but it’s still one of the highlights of my childhood.

my father also convinced me that if i didn’t eat my vegetables or enough of them, hair would grow all over my body like it did his. this wasn’t a scare tactic as nobody ever had any trouble with getting me to eat vegetables (i love them), he was just messing around. i believed him for a lot longer than i probably should’ve, though, as i never thought to fact check, and he is a very hairy man (he’s italian lmao) who hardly eats any vegetables. to this day, the fact that i actually believed him still cracks him up, and he likes to joke and remind me about it whenever possible. xD

 

[!_Nxmillia_!]

My teacher lied about the tooth fairy-

 

[QueenCobra]

One time when I was 8, I lied to my friend that I was really 37 years old (not sure why that number) but was trapped in a child's body. She called me stupid and walked away.

 

[Alyx]

That if I misbehaved, they would drop me off at the old lady's house in Middle River and she would punish me all day, lol!
It's been so many years; I don't remember much, but that was something I did remember.

A scarier one that my sister told me (she wasn't a nice child; she grew into a terrible adult) was that spirits/ghosts could follow me home if I walked past/through a graveyard.

I used to tell everyone that I was going to get my name legally changed and after a school year of making up different names, they'd ask me "who are you today?" which eventually led to me discovering that I'm non-binary and those other names made me feel more comfortable.