How did you find out Santa wasn't real?

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The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.


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Fucking Green Lantern went and ruined it for everyone.

Christmas spirit my ass.


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never really believed in that


 
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I gradually reasoned it out on my own.

It finally crystallized when I read Superfudge by Judy Blume in elementary school, which straight-up tells you that Santa isn't real in one chapter. In a children's book. Judy Blume was a cold bitch.
Last Edit: December 02, 2016, 11:47:25 AM by Verbatim


 
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my parents and grandparents handwriting on the presents from santa


 
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That said, good parents don't lie to their children. Don't tell your kids about Santa. You can still have a fun Christmas without him.


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My teacher was joking about Santa being fake and one of the girls started silently sobbing

Her parents later emailed the teacher thanking her because they didn't know how to tell their daughter


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The fuck do you mean he isn't real?! I saw him at Epcot yesterday!


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I was told about Santa when I was three, and immediately said that it didn't make sense because reindeer can't fly. My older sister believed in it until she was seven, however.


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I believe I was 10. Was talking to friends and one kid said he wasn't real. Asked my mom if that was true and she broke the news to me. I think it was a few weeks before Christmas that year.


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I woke up one night and he was filling my ass and not my stockings.


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I was in 3rd grade and some salty kid was butthurt because they found out Santa wasn't real from an older sibling, and decided to ruin Christmas that year for the whole damn class. I remember going home and crying to my parents, and being even more heartbroken when they admitted Santa was a hoax.


 
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Yeah, hated my parents for a good week after it became clear.


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My sister and I figured it out, but my mom confirmed it when she got a bit tipsy at the state fair on a particularly warm day. The web of lies unraveled then: Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, God, etc.
Last Edit: December 02, 2016, 12:02:29 PM by HubbleTurkeyscope


 
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Yeah, hated my parents for a good week after it became clear.
...why?


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When I noticed that my parents used the EXACT SAME wrapping on the gifts.


 
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Yeah, hated my parents for a good week after it became clear.
...why?
For lying to me about what I thought was the most magical and wondrous time of the year.

Why wouldn't I?

You don't lie to people and expect them to be okay with that. Especially not, uh, your own fucking children.
Last Edit: December 02, 2016, 01:19:39 PM by Verbatim


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just kinda gradually figured it out on my own

by 4th grade i was 100% a nonbeliever and when i tried preaching to my friends they all ganged up on me


 
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I don't remember ever believing in him


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Was a gradual deduction. As I got older the story started to make no real sense and finally my parents asked me if I believed in him and I was like naaaah. Then they confirmed and told me not to tell my sister.


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I think I was about 6 or 7 years old. Mostly due to reasoning. For example, we never saw Santa, he only left the present sack at our door.


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Yeah, hated my parents for a good week after it became clear.
...why?
For lying to me about what I thought was the most magical and wondrous time of the year.

Why wouldn't I?

You don't lie to people and expect them to be okay with that. Especially not, uh, your own fucking children.
I mean that's one way to look at it. But you have to admit it's a decent lesson in critical thinking. Deducing on your own or being told it's fake seems like a not too harmful way to get across to kids that the world might not always be what it seems.
 I don't know why, I've never come across someone who was vengeful that their parents told them Santa was real.

The logic you're using of not lying to your kid ever seems like a rather cold reality type thing. Not sure exactly how to word it but that doesn't sound like a lot of fun.


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my parents had to tell me when I was 10 or 11, they were afraid that I'd end up getting made fun of or something because I still fervently believed in Santa until they told me.


 
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hard to say exactly when. i think i was 7 or 8. i didnt admit it til much layer though because my folks always told me that if you stopped believing in Santa Claus i would stop getting presents from him. i just wanted more presents.


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my parents had to tell me when I was 10 or 11, they were afraid that I'd end up getting made fun of or something because I still fervently believed in Santa until they told me.
I honestly feel like you wouldn't have reasoned it out until you were like fourteen otherwise, so good on them.


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Seriously though, when I was five or six my sister thanked our parents for the presents, and then corrected herself by thanking "Santa" when she realized I was in the room.

My parents told me when I was seven, but they needn't have bothered because the damage had already been done.


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You fool.

I killed Santa.


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my parents had to tell me when I was 10 or 11, they were afraid that I'd end up getting made fun of or something because I still fervently believed in Santa until they told me.
I honestly feel like you wouldn't have reasoned it out until you were like fourteen otherwise, so good on them.
what makes you say that

that's mean