What lies did your parents tell you that you only found out the truth about in adulthood?
What are lies your parents told you that you found out only later? The weirder, the better. Here's mine:
From when I was about 4 until I was about 11, I had a pet goldfish. I actually thought it lived all seven years. Around when I was five, however, it slowly started turning blue. My parents explained to me that goldfish are only gold in their childhood and eventually grew up to be blue. I didn't have any reason not to believe them, so I spent most of my childhood thinking that turning blue was a natural process for goldfish. Then one day in my high school biology class, we were studying the life cycle of a goldfish, and after my teacher gave us a summary I raised my hand and asked when they turn blue. The teacher just gave me a funny look, and I suddenly realized that this made absolutely no sense. I went home and confronted my parents, who told me that my goldfish did not live for 7 years, it died once every few weeks and they replaced it with a fish from the pet store. Eventually goldfish got expensive, so they bought an entire tank of beta fish and kept it in the basement. Every few weeks they'd replace the fish with the lightest beta fish they could find...until eventually they just decided to buy blue beta fish since they were cheaper. Changed my life. Children of good parents, what did your parents do right? How were they good parents?
From when I was about 4 until I was about 11, I had a pet goldfish. I actually thought it lived all seven years. Around when I was five, however, it slowly started turning blue. My parents explained to me that goldfish are only gold in their childhood and eventually grew up to be blue. I didn't have any reason not to believe them, so I spent most of my childhood thinking that turning blue was a natural process for goldfish. Then one day in my high school biology class, we were studying the life cycle of a goldfish, and after my teacher gave us a summary I raised my hand and asked when they turn blue. The teacher just gave me a funny look, and I suddenly realized that this made absolutely no sense. I went home and confronted my parents, who told me that my goldfish did not live for 7 years, it died once every few weeks and they replaced it with a fish from the pet store. Eventually goldfish got expensive, so they bought an entire tank of beta fish and kept it in the basement. Every few weeks they'd replace the fish with the lightest beta fish they could find...until eventually they just decided to buy blue beta fish since they were cheaper. Changed my life. Children of good parents, what did your parents do right? How were they good parents?
