Did anyone else grow up thinking they hated things just because their parents hated the thing?

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Cats, growing up, my parents were VERY vocal about hating cats. So I grew up thinking I hated them too but never really thought about why. Then one day when I was a teenager, DH (then BF) took me to meet his aunt and I also met her cat who was a lovely thing. I sat there and thought about why I hated cats, and I came to zero conclusions. It slowly dawned on me that I didn't hate them after all, I actually really like them! We're hoping to get a cat at some point this year and I can't wait 🙂

Jack Russells, my parents were also pretty vocal about really disliking them too, "Horrible yappy things" and the same with cats. I always thought I didn't like them too until I actually thought about why I didn't and came up with no answer.

Meatloaf (musician, not food)
Queen (band, not the Queen)
Ford cars, both my parents despised them, my dad probably still does but my mum is now on her second Ford and she loves it, me and DH are also on our second Ford and it's definitely our favourite car we've ever had so far!

Anyone else?

Dm had to have Gold - anyone remember that? Absolutely rancid but I thought it was normal. Even Stork or Vitalite was a treat when going to friends houses after that!

Yappy dogs here as well. But actually I genuinely don't like them!

Yes! Weirdly, we had relatives who ran a corner shop and I remember staying with them and going into the shop after closing time to get a tub of Gold from the chiller. It seemed so exciting! Maybe for that reason, I kind of liked it.

is St Ivel still around?

Absolutely cats! My mum never gave a reason so I filled in the gaps with all manner of reasons.

Then in 2021 under pressure from my family we got one and it's been a revelation, so we got a second one last year.

They are the sweetest most affectionate and adorable creatures and I couldn't imagine life without them now!

I was told I didn’t like butter 🙄 Cue years of vile mashed potatoes which were basically boiled potatoes mashed up with no butter, milk or seasoning. It was a revelation when I first had it done properly and now I love mash 😋 Same with butter on sandwiches. I never even knew this was a ‘thing’. Throughout my childhood I had horrid dry sandwiches but I thought that’s just how it was and was told that only common
people had butter on theirs 🤷‍♀️ Again, a revelation when I tried it 😋

My parents didn’t like dogs. My dad didn’t see the point in pets at all and my mum was a bit scared of dogs (she liked cats though). I spent years thinking I didn’t like dogs but I have a rescue dog now and it’s been a revelation. Dogs are bloody brilliant.

‘It’ = having a dog. I wasn’t referring to my dog as ‘it’. DDog is a he.

Agree with the butter thing.
I had dry sandwiches with wholemeal bread until I left home 🤮
Marge was fine though apparently, despite it not even being real food 🤦‍♀️

I'm more or less the opposite! I was brought up to believe that fabric conditioner was a marvellous thing and you should never do laundry without it.

To begin with, when I was first married, I followed suit but then I read something about fabric conditioner not being good for towels, as it makes them less absorbant, so I stopped adding to towel washes. Then I ran out of it and didn't use it in the normal laundry and realised that I so much preferred my laundry not to smell strongly of artificial perfumes.

I haven't used fabric softener for about 25 years now. I really dislike the perfumed, floppy, greasy feel of clothes that were rinsed with fabric softener and I know I'll never use it again.

So, I'm definitely in the group that says it's unnecessary. My DD, on the other hand, uses it all the time!

My parents hated fast food places ( apart from fish and chips maybe twice a year ) mostly because of all the waste it creates. (Maybe they did have a point. )
I was late 20s before trying a McDonald's.
They also didn't want to join any kind of video lending places because they wanted your personal details
Didn't like debt of any kind or cats.
Didn't own a car
Breakfast tv was trashy
Radio one
Holidays not in the UK

Beetroot

My parents always said it was vile and I agree the pickled jar stuff isn't the best but I love beetroot now in anything!

Religion. My mother was the sort of atheist who personally despised God. She forced me to stop going to a house church when I was a teenager.

Cats, still don't like them now!

To answer the question in the title, no. If my parents disliked something I would go out of my way to investigate and possibly like :-).

My folks were pretty open minded for the 70s/80s, so hard to think.
Dogs
Carveries
Holiday Parks

I grew up thinking that you HAD to take the gherkins off burgers. Was probably 30 before I discovered that actually they are the best bit!

Not something that I don’t like because of my parents(maybe not intentional from my my mun)but coffee 🤢 even the smell gives me the physical boak. My dad drinks it, mum used to till she got pregnant with me then even the smell made her sick and she hasn’t been able to drink it since

my mum* that was meant to say lol

Tories
The Aristocracy
Fat People
ITV
Religion
Dogs
Tabloid newspapers
Pop Music
Uneducated People
Show Offs

My parents thought they were incredibly broad minded whereas they were really terrible inverted snobs!

I do wonder if being extremely judgemental over seemly unimportant subjects it is a bit of a generational thing, from the keeping-up-with-the-joneses, what-would-the-neighbours-say era?

My middle class parents (especially my DM) held very strong views on matters ranging caravans (bad) to ITV / popular televison (very bad) to tabloids (unspeakable). We lived in a pretty working class area and I remember feeling quite isolated because I had absorbed my parents opinions yet simultaneously longed to fit in.

As a parent I make a concious effort to keep quiet and let the DC form their own opinions on stuff that doesn't really matter, especially where there is often class based snobbery at play. Interestingly though they seem to have absorbed a lot of my own prejudices anyway. Maybe it's genetic!

My parents were quite scathing about caravans too @cheeseismydownfall. Most of our holidays were camping in Wales or France so it wasn’t camping they had an issue with, just caravans. Maybe they thought a caravan was ‘cheating’ and you had to be under canvas for it to count as camping. As an adult, I still love camping- but in a caravan rather than a tent!

Urban life. I spent years mindlessly repeating that I hated city living and longed to live somewhere remote and scenic until I realised that actually, much as I still love country walks and getting back to nature etc, I really liked living in the thick of things and having countless pubs/restaurants/music venues/travel hubs etc within walking distance.

Sadly I think my mum would actually really love to live in the city too but she's been to some extent indoctrinated by my dad's fixation on an 'off-grid' existence, so they live in a detached cottage miles away from anything and with no social life to speak of

Catholics.
Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, other Christians are all fine but Catholics NO. Still haven't told them MiL is a Catholic 😀

Opposite really. My parents used to say things like:
"Oh isn't it wonderful we've bought a lovely wholesome packed lunch with us. look at those silly families going into a café and having nothing like as nice food which is terribly expensive..."
And I'd be quietly getting rid of the uneaten "lovely wholesome sandwiches" made lovingly for me and wishing I could sit down on a chair, have a nice toilet to use and food that I wanted to eat.
As an adult I've discovered that I was right. It is much nicer.

i just remembered-pubs

we dont go into pubs theyre for alcoholics-i think we just about went to one once that was more catered for families but everyday normal pubs absolutely not