People Are Sharing Things They Grew Up Believing From Their Parents That Ended Up Being Totally Wrong

When you were a kid, you probably thought your parents knew everything. They were older, bigger, and had so much more life experience than you did...

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...only to get older and realize that they didn't really know what they were talking about, either.

"It was all a lie"
"It was all a lie"

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Reddit user u/pryncessjada6 recently asked the community, "What's something your parents raised you to believe was 100% true and [you] realized [it] wasn’t when you became an adult?" Which honestly got some pretty surprising responses.

1. "[They said] that it was illegal to drive with the reading lights on in the car."

—u/chefjake420

2. "That good grades equals success."

—u/AlioshaCraft

3. "I was told there would be lots of people trying to convince me to do drugs everywhere I went, literally have never been offered any. That stuff's expensive."

—u/riflechick02

4. "That if I cross this bridge in the local park without an adult, the troll underneath will grab me. Turns out, they just didn't want me running off out of sight."

—u/EMILLKSLEEPA

5. "The ice cream man is playing music to let you know he’s out of ice cream and will be back later…."

—u/chubbybrownandtatted

6. “'We don’t have a favorite.'”

—u/hshsgdve

7. "Cracking my fingers causes arthritis."

—u/KoNcEpTzOfDeAtH

8. "That sitting too close to the TV makes you gay."

—u/ButterBandit3

9. "If you're nice to people, they're nice to you. Bullshit. Too many people perceive kindness as weakness and will attempt to take advantage of that."

—u/FiveFoot9Trucker

10. "That if you keep making weird faces, your face will stay like that."

—u/darth_smokesalot

11. "Santa."

—u/stampcoin

12. "Drinking milk will make me taller."

—u/Missfrizzly

13. "That I'll never get a job with tattoos or piercings... Haven't had a problem since I started body modifications 15 years ago, and I've worked a variety of different jobs over the course of all these years. ?????♀?"

—u/Ellieawi_07

14. "Going to college and getting a degree will pretty much guarantee you a good job/middle class status."

—u/Captain_Inept

15. "That hay bales were actually 'cow eggs.'"

—u/Pale-Resort-8544

16. "Carrots keep your eyesight healthy forever, [and] bread crusts give you beautiful, curly hair."

—u/Spyryt1970

17. "Family will always be there for you."

—u/Straight-Fig-4008

18. "When my kids were young, I told them we hadn't invented color until the '60s. That's why old movies were black and white. I had them going for a while lol."

—u/that_doesnt_gothere

19. "That I will never graduate high school because Armageddon is coming. So, there is no need for college or planning on the future, including saving money. I have two kids that graduated college."

—u/FirstThymeLongTime

20. "That they knew what they were doing. No they fucking didn't! We're all making it up as we go along!!!"

—u/Hotmanwhore

Were you told any of these growing up? Did you hear something else that eventually turned out to be untrue, too? LMK in the comments below!