Have you ever realized you'd gone through your whole life, say, pronouncing a word wrong or calling someone by an entirely incorrect name?
That feeling when you find out you've been wrong the whole time can really blow your mind. It might even change your outlook on life, who knows?
Sometimes, that same feeling returns when you bring up a story from the past to your parents. They might look at each other as if they're about to tell you some big news… and then they do. That one thing you saw as the truth this whole time has been a lie they told you or a trick they played on you in childhood. How could they?
Perhaps it was to protect your feelings, or to harmlessly make their own lives a tiny bit more manageable, but as with these 11 stories, they definitely had you fooled.
Did your parents ever reveal to you that they bent the truth when you were little? Did it totally turn your world upside down? Let us know your own stories in the comments.
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"My grandpa loved honey graham cereal. Every time my brothers and I would visit, he would open his cupboard to reveal four or five boxes of honey graham cereal, explaining how much he loved them and that he got some extra boxes just because we were visiting.
"I always thought it was so cool that my grandpa — who was, you know, old — had the same favorite cereal as me. I would always feast on cereal every time we went to visit. Of course, years after he died, I was relating this story to someone and the obvious dawned on me.
"Later I asked my mother if grandpa even liked honey graham cereal, and she got this big smile on her face, looked a little sad, and said 'No… but he knew you did.' Broke my heart. Still the story I tell when I remember him." – ApesInSpace
2.
"When I was a kid, I had a pet hamster that I loved as he would walk up my arm and sleep on my shoulder. Fast forward to age 16. My dad and I were talking about my childhood and he let slip, 'Oh you mean hamster 1 or hamster 2?'
"'What' was my reaction. Turns out my hamster died… To make it better, they had the cage on their bed as they were deciding what to do, and I came in, pet the dead hamster and said, 'Bye, I will see you later after school.'
"My dad went to get a new hamster that day and when I got back from school he said I was ecstatic that my hamster got bigger. My mom confirmed this." – Shablahdoo
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"I used to just spew out random numbers to my mom, telling her to add, subtract, multiply, etc. She would, in turn, tell me what the final number would be. Blew my mind, and she was the damn smartest person on the planet.
"Then I got clever. One day I got a calculator out to make sure she had it right. She didn't." – trafficrush
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"The 'Monster Juice' that my mom would spray around my room to keep the monsters out, was actually just water with a large amount of my dad's cologne sprayed into it." – telekinetic_turtle
5.
"My mom used to turn the clocks forward when I had sleepovers at her house… She'd run in to change the clock from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm while we were distracted (this was before we all had cell phones) and we'd be amazed at how fast time had gone.
"We would stay up 'really late' and then fall asleep, confident in our 'coolness.' She actually got to go to sleep at a decent hour without making us all shut up six times in the middle of the night.
"Now that I am older and value my sleep, I think she is a genius." – NotAnAverageTaunTaun
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"I don't like mushrooms. The texture of them creeps me out and I'm not huge on the taste. When my mom used to make lasagna I'd notice mushrooms in it and immediately refuse to continue eating it.
"Anyways, she tells me that it's OK cause they're lasagna mushrooms. For years anytime I would eat something and see mushrooms she'd always assure me they were lasagna mushrooms.
"Fast forward like 5 years, I'm at a restaurant and was ordering something with mushrooms in it. Sure enough I said 'can you make sure those are lasagna mushrooms?' My parents died of laughing and had to explain in front of the waiter the evil lie they fed me for years." – Reddit user
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"For a good portion of my childhood, I thought we were just eating a different brand of tomato sauce. Turns out, my mom had been liquefying carrots and putting them into the sauce to get us more veggies. Took me years to know that tomato sauce should not be orange." – waterfountain_bidet
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"When I was a kid we had a pet bird, Bart the bird, and he could talk. For years I recalled with great fondness talking to Bart and Bart answering back. Well, not too long ago I asked my dad what type of bird Bart was. Surely he was some form of parrot and I just never put it together because I was so young.
"My dad then broke the news that Bart never talked. That he would stand not far off in the other room or a few steps behind me and talk for the bird. I don't think I've ever felt the carpet be pulled so quickly from under my feet. You don't know how many people I've told about Bart the talking bird." – militarytime
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"My dad used to call me into the bathroom to look at his poop. I was always shocked out of my mind… it looked like little stars and perfect circles and even dog bones. I couldn't figure out why mine always looked stupid.
"Turns out he was throwing dog food into the toilet and waiting for it to bloat up before calling me in. I'm glad to say I've inherited my dad's sense of humor." – timothygruich
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"My mom said she could see through walls. She knew when I was up playing and not trying to go to bed, so I believed her for years.
"Turns out, my nightlight cast a very bright shadow on the wall, and she would use that to see if I was in bed or not." – goldgecko4
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"I used to hate whole wheat bread. My parents convinced me that it was just part-toasted white bread so that I would eat it." – Reddit user
Did you ever find out later in life that your parents had been fooling you the entire time? Let us know your stories in the comments and please SHARE with family and friends on Facebook!
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