How Did You Find Out Santa Isn’t Real?

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The console "N64" that I found under my parents bed when I was 10-13? Santa either dropped it off early or my mother got it for him to give me – after all, he didn't actually know me. The kids on my bus who told me there was no Santa Claus? They were no authorities – they were fellow kids. My father confirming it? He was just being mean....




I didn't believe anyone until I heard Phoebe Cates' extremely weird, extremely dark monologue in Gremlins about her father dressing up as Santa Claus, slipping, breaking his neck and getting stuck in his family's chimney for days. Maybe it was the morbidity, maybe it was her delivery, maybe it was the fact that I was so entranced by that movie about impossibly cute, music-playing, English-understanding, upright guinea pigs with Persian cat eyes little munchkins that turned into havoc-wreaking monsters, that I was willing to accept anything it threw at me. When Cates ended her monologue with, "And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus," that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

[Chikun]

Critical thinking.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

inb4 "what do you mean he's not real o.O"




what do you mean he's not real? stop lying!! :sobs uncontrollably:

[thecat]

I found out by finding a bunch of presents in my parents closet, then I got a few of those presents for Christmas.
This happened when I was about 8-9.

[Assassin]

I told my parents I don't believe in Santa and they said why not and I said because it's a mathematical impossibility. To which they said son we need you to sit down for a moment...blarg. As if we already didn't know. I was 5 btw...just for the record.

[brett friggin favre]

i was about 8 or 9, made my christmas list and changed it on the 23rd, giving santa enough time to change my order but not giving enough time for my parents to make the proper adjustments. adjustments weren't made, therefore no santa.

[StarsMine]

I dont recall when It was. However what I dont understand are some parents need to refuse to admit he isn't real. What do you gain out lieing to your kid?You can just say every family has their own santa, instead of insisting there is one santa. I am just not the biggest fan of straight out lieing them even when they start to have "faith" problems with santa. Feeling compelled to prove to them santa is weird I feel is putting your resources in the wrong thing.

[maynard]

my parents hired this guy who does house visits and shows up on xmas eve all dressed up and shit and brings a gift your parents had already purchased...... he smelt of fish.... he then left and drove away in a seafood truck..... yeah.... I was 7

[XX0wnsXY]

I found out when I found out the tooth fairy wasnt real. I cried lots and then asked about Santa and The Easter bunny. my parents didnt lie and in that one moment..all my dreams had been crushed. it was a heavy blow.

[Bane of Soldiers]

Never believed in him. Before I knew of his existence, I walked into my mom's room while she was wrapping gifts, because I was bored (and looking for my GBA SP + Pokemon Ruby Version). My mom had me help her put tags and wrap presents for the other kids in the family. There were multiple gifts, and we wrote our names or our mother's name on the "From" section. We also wrote Santa on a number of them. Pretty easy for any kid to figure out that we were tricking the other kids in the family, although I was unaware why then. And some time later, at school, I realized who this "Santa" was supposed to be and how everyone in my class were fooled.