True fact about yourself that no one believes

[Kernobhead]

When I was at university (5 yr course with a year in industry, so 4 yrs of teaching) I never missed a single lecture, seminar, lab or tutorial. If it was on the timetable I was there. We had large contact hours (engineering degree, so about 25 hrs per week) so was quite a lot to fit in.

I’ve told this to a few people over the years when the topic comes up in conversation. No one has ever believed me, and it’s not something I can prove or disprove either way!

Anything you have done in the past that no one believes and you have no way of proving?

That my blood group doesn't match either my mum's or dad's. It's supposed to be 1million to 1 odds! I'm positive my parents are my parents too. I got the same letter as one parent and a positive reading off the other! Boring but I'd love to know why!

I didn't realise this was so uncommon. My DD doesn't match me or DH. I am O- and he is A+ and she is A-. I assumed she just got her group from DH and rhesus status from me. I thought that was normal??! (She is 100% definitely DHs child)

“I went out with lad for nearly 2 years when I was 16/17 and we did not sleep together. His choice not mine. Turns out his is now gay”

I believe that. But he’s always been gay.

Why would someone not believe that a boy you went out with as a teenager is gay?

I’m in the Guiness book of records.

@Cider4Caro

Is the blood thing really that uncommon? I have my mothers group and my fathers Rh status (and unfortunately I was born with rhesus disease )

I've just put it in a calculator and I was 75% likely to get my mothers group and 75% likely to get my dads status. Surely that cant make it a 1 in a million chance of not completely matching one of them?

Some of these are very odd, in the sense that anyone would find them difficult to believe. Lots of people don’t use drugs or social media and had celibate teenage relationships and have been interviewed for tv news, even if introverted, surely.

Some of these are very odd, in the sense that anyone would find them difficult to believe. Lots of people don’t use drugs or social media and had celibate teenage relationships and have been interviewed for tv news, even if introverted, surely.

I feel like maybe people haven’t understood the premise of the thread?!

I got kicked out of 3 schools for fighting by the time I was 6.
I had my first drag on a cigarette at 3 years old.
I'm autistic (even people who know that forget all the time).
My great grandfather was from the West Indies, primarily people disbelieve that one because I'm blonde, blue eyed and (until I tan at least) ivory skinned. My mum, who's dark haired and olive skinned, doesn't have anyone disbelieve that one

I watched an episode of Jeremy Kyle...I know....but they ended up doing a DNA test on father and son as it was very rare to not have either parents blood group. It was a few years ago, maybe as DNA things have come so far with research it's not true nowadays. It must have been 10 years ago. I'm unsure now, but I believe the whole show was based on the fact this poor family had been ripped apart, ie dad thought mum had an affair due to blood group not matching . I'm going to do more research now!

@Cider4Caro
If I've understood your post correctly, that's just down to dominant and recessive genes.
To take the letter first, you've probably inherited an O gene (recessive gene) from one, and the letter from the other. A and B are dominant over O, so if you got A or B from one parent and O from another you'll present as A or B (depending on which letter you inherited).
The positive and negative thing is the exact same. You've inherited positive from one and negative from the other. I'm assuming from your post one of your parents is negative and one is positive, so you'll definitely get the negative from the negative parent but unless your positive parent is a carrier for a negative gene that they passed on to you you'll carry the negative gene and possibly pass it on to your kids, but present as positive.
I'm the same, my dad is O+ so I was always going to get an O from him, my mum's AB+ so I was either going to be A or B, the only uncertainty was if I'd inherit a negative from both of them to make me A-/B-.

^I got kicked out of 3 schools for fighting by the time I was 6.
I had my first drag on a cigarette at 3 years old^

My god! Where were your parents??

I’ve never tasted a sausage roll or pork pie.

@IvanaPee
My mum was sick of me getting beaten up at said schools so, since I was freakishly tall and built like a brick shithouse, she said to give them a taste of their own medicine. Unfortunately I was not overly bright at that point so didn't think to do it where teachers couldn't see me, got a reputation as a trouble maker, shit stuck. I've changed a lot since then to be fair, got my own fair share of shitty treatment by people bigger and stronger than me so I guess that's karma.
The cigarette thing, my mum was a smoker and left a lit cigarette in the ash tray outside and, being a small child, I just picked it up and puffed on it. Put me off for 15 years, then my next one put me off for life.

Ah! On explanation I say fuck it! I’m glad you stuck up for yourself!

I wouldn't say I regret sticking up for myself like that (the looks on their faces was so beautiful), but I'm not overly proud of it either. In hindsight, I definitely became the bully, and I used that fear people started to get to make myself feel better about the bullying, which I find abhorrent now. People abuse their power, they always will, but one of the big reasons I want to go into SEN or student support is so I can use my strengths (fiery personality, persistence, honestly pretty mean streak) so I can help others who don't have the confidence to stand up for themselves. Maybe it's a pipe dream, but I want to be a force for good having been on both sides.

@Rooska1

My aunt says she saw a little elf man in a tree when she was younger. She said she asked him what he was doing up there and he shouted at her that she shouldn't be able to see him!

That I really am unloveable

fizzysci I want now to say I do not believe that.

I damage electrical devices and get shocked by things all the time. I generate high levels of static electricity apparently.

No one I've ever spoken too about this ever believes that I HAVE NEVER EVER EATEN MY OWN BOGIES AS A CHILD!

Grim.

I average about two to three hours most nights

To the poster who ended up having the same name as your sister - was the elder one dying/in critical condition when the younger was born or something like that and then the other survived? (Heard of some superstition to the effect that it could help the dying one pull through )

Or are you like the kids in that family, I heard/read on the internet about them, not sure if it was in UK, where apparently the father's only achievement in life was to name his children after himself 🙄
So in that situation he, say, was Lesley, and he name both his daughter and son Lesley 😶. Moreover, left his wife and in his second partnership gave the next kid his own name again 😂 I don't understand how the mothers agreed, esp the second one!!

So are you both named after your dad, because he insisted there's no other, more beautiful name in the world??

Can't elaborate more, but I've never been in the same room as all of my kids.(youngest is 4.5)

So sorry to read some of the awful stories.

On a lighter note, nobody believes I shared a cheese and pineapple hedgehog with the members of De La Soul (remember them?)

I've got more but it's late and I really should be asleep.

Also something I myself found so hard to believe :) when I discovered at age 8ish that my grandma's maiden name was Prince. And that she gave it up!! And took granddad's name (which was similar in vibe/about as common as Harrison). I was like why the hell you didn't keep it and insisted on passing it all to your children!!