And so the deceit from dcs childhood catches up with me....

[Caughtinmyweboflies]

What started as an innocent conversation has turned into a confession session, and my 21yo is shocked.

We were talking about a band he listened to as a kid (JLS if you're interested), and it came about that I told him when he was maybe 5 or 6 that their names were Aston, JB, Colin and Jeff (couldn't remember the other 2s names) and he just never questioned it for all these years.

As the conversation went on I had to confess to a multitude of things like dropping cool metal things ahead of him when he was out with his metal detector, he thought he was just really lucky, he thought he saw a meteor hit earth when he was about 8, they were doing a thing at school where an 'alien' crashed into earth and they did a whole term around teaching the alien stuff, so the night before I stood outside his bedroom window with a stereo and a flashlight, and he saw and heard this meteor and just never questioned it.

All in all I had to confess to maybe 10 things that I did to make his childhood magical and he is shook.

He's very clever, at uni, paying his own way by working full time, own flat etc, but he just never really questioned anything (also autistic and takes everything at face value as we have learned in the last few years).

I'm sitting here wracking my brains to other stuff I have done now.

(Lighthearted, he is actually very grateful and thanked me then got a bit teary, after he told me off 🤣)

Anyone else had innocent lies catch up with them?

Our dad was dying, he was in hospital and we'd been called in by the nurses to come and see him. Me and my younger brothers were sat with him and we were recounting stories of our childhood. When we were little (aged between about 6-13) we used to go on day trips on coaches full of old folk - our dad was a coach driver and if there were empty seats we'd go along for free.

My youngest brother was fondly recounting a story of when we'd been on a day trip to a seaside town and how a seagull had stolen his ice cream. We all cracked up and the laughter nearly finished dad off In reality, he was spending forever eating it and we had to get back to the coach (no food allowed) and were running late. When he was distracted by something, our dad snatched it out of his hand and deftly chucked it in the bin in one swift motion. All these years (he's in his 30s now!) he'd believed that a seagull had stolen it, and Dad had to do a literal death bed confession 😆

My dad used to read news on Ceefax every day. He'd let me play with buttons on the remote but covered the bulb at the end so the page didn't change. It was his magic TV wand that only worked for him. All remotes have been wands since I was tiny.

My son lost his tooth and I forgot to do the money thing.

Luckily I remembered that his older cousin recently lost one and was so happy that the tooth MOUSE came (in South African Afrikaans communities it is a tooth MOUSE and not a FAIRY.

So I told my son that I got a message from the FAIRY that she was on holiday, and the tooth MOUSE is standing in for her... but since he lives in the countryside where cousin lives, it will take a few extra days to get to the city. He believed it.

When my sister and I were little and looking through my parents wedding album, we asked my dad why we were not in any photos (hint: we were not born yet.) Instead, my dad told us that it was an adult party and we had to wait in the car. Boy! Were we upset for looong time!! My dad still thinks it's one of his best ones and chuckles at the memory. He made up so many stories that when he told me the moon caused tides I refused to believe him! I love my dad 😀

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One of my neighbours would tell her 6 year old DD that "Everyone goes to bed when Mel does". She was the youngest kid on the street but still played with everyone (no fear) and they'd dutifully say, "yep, off to bed" and pretend they were all being shifted at 7:30😂

We've told each of our kids that they'll grow a tail at about age 8/9 and the tails take different forms depending on their personality

This thread is precious, all these lovely lies.

Bit outing for me if someone was to know me well but mine was from my older brother. I have terrible hand eye coordination (vision issues) and we were in the forest one day, everyone catching leaves for luck. I tried and tried but just couldn’t manage and I was getting really upset, I was only about 7 or so. Sat down on a tree stump for a little cry and SO WEIRD a leaf, followed by a few others, landed right onto my lap! I missed the first but caught 2-3 others and was absolutely full of it. The universe must have known how hard I was finding it!

My brother had dropped them over my shoulder, he told me recently. We’re 31 and 37 now.

I remember desperately wanting a Talking Baby doll when I was about 8 or 9, but was told they were far too expensive. My best friend got one and innocently told me her Dad had found it because it ‘fell off the back of a lorry’. We couldn’t believe his luck and genuinely thought he’d found it in the road for her. I told my parents who knowingly smiled, and for years I’d check in the road or look behind lorrys in case anything else had fallen off I could collect!!

As a kid I genuinely believed that I would get to a certain age (not sure how old, but certainly a ‘grown up’) and stop farting and pooing because despite the men in my family being very open about their (ahem) passing of gas and going to the loo, I never saw the women in my family do the same. I asked my nan and she told me she didn’t do that in quite an offended way! I always wondered how old I would be when I became a lady and those things just… stopped 😆

I believed that if you swallowed chewing gum, it would get tangled in your guts and you'd have to have surgery to remove it. I held this belief until I was 14, when my mates mercilessly ripped the piss out of me when they found out.

Thanks, Dad. 😬

I don't think my niece, despite being 18, is 100% sure whether her uncle (my DH) was bitten by a cheetah. Shes seen the photo of DH petting a cheetah, she's seen the scar on his leg....

When my son was young he didn’t like Turkey so at Christmas I used to get him a chicken breast. One year I forgot and when he asked where it was I told him it was a new sort of bird, half Turkey the other half Chicken. He ate his dinner from the left side of the bird quite happily.

I had the same. I'd only eat cabbage/onions from Grampa's garden. Despite not having been there for months we still had a very healthy supply.

My dd was in her late 20s when I accidentally revealed that her monkey, who she left in a taxi,was not returned by a kindly taxi driver (with a nice letter about how she had spent a few nights in the taxi office) but was actually a lookalike monkey her father made a special trip to London Zoo and frantically scoured the gift shop for, kept in the bottom of his bag for a couple of days to squish a bit then posted in an envelope addressed by his secretary, who also wrote the letter.

It didn’t cross my mind that she would still believe the story was true!

When I was little I had a baby pet rabbit in the garden, unfortunately it was attacked by a fox, my mother went round the garden removing the evidence. When I came down to breakfast she told me that Bonnie had been seen packing a case and the next day a post card arrived telling me that Bonnie was on her hols, a week later another card arrived to tell me that she was staying there as it was near to the sea!

She also told me that the reason that her writing and Santa Claus’s looked the same was because he went to the same school… a Convent in Dalkey!

Omg I remember my mother telling me this too 🤣

Why she did I have no idea. Was it somehow scandalous that a young attractive and clever woman was on a TV show with men and she was unmarried? Even if it was a subconscious thing I don't know 😅

Going by all the 70s photos in our family albums, I think the world was orange and brown until I got here!

This has really tickled me!
I'm imagining them together now.. total misfit couple!
Love how this must keep coming up between you and your mum... "to this day..." haha!

I love this story, your family and Colin! 🥰

I have an ex who believed that everything was actually black and white in the 'olden days' and didn't know otherwise until well into adulthood 😂

Told DD that one year her uncle was so naughty that santa didnt bring him any toys. He didnt even get coal, he got ashes. And he had to play with his sisters' barbies all year. She thoroughly believes it and the whole family corroborate it, except for him. Which is true to character as someone on the naughty list.

My favourite lie is that the little dust particles you see floating in a sunbeam/ray of light are fairies. I told her that one day to distract her when she wouldnt let me strap her into her carseat ans she still thoroughly believes it. The magic makes my heart so happy that I dont think I will ever fess up.

When my eldest was potty training he was really good with wees but not poos. I got a bit exasperated as everyone told me most kids are the other way around and I was getting fed up with dealing with shitty pants. One day a police car with siren was going past our house (lived on a main road so happened a lot) and I said if the police find out someone has pooed their pants they come round and put them in jail. He didn't seem very bothered - just as well as I felt bad about saying it - but he did believe me and repeated it for years and found it quite funny when it dawned on him that it was untrue. He's now 20 and it's still a family joke when we hear a police car: "oh dear someone must have pooed their pants".

Our youngest is nearly a decade younger than him so I was able to talk about some of the "secret" things like Father Christmas in front of eldest. One day I said something about wrapping the stocking presents and he was really shocked and said "wait, what, it's YOU?" I was horrified and said oh God no, you didn't still believe in Santa. He said no if course not but he didn't think the stocking presents came from me either and thought someone else like grandparents smuggled them into our house as a surprise. I asked why on earth that would be logical and he said well, it's always different wrapping paper that I haven't seen anywhere else in the house. I explained that is part of the fiction and he was astounded. I'm not sure if he was impressed with my efforts or appalled at the level of deceit.

Youngest was about 5 in covid/lockdown. When we were allowed to have a few people in the garden I tentatively arranged a birthday party for her which consisted of a bouncy castle in the garden and two friends and their mums coming round. Daughter was a bit cheeky and kept sneaking her friends inside to show them her room etc. We had quite nosy neighbours and I was worried about being reported for having an illegal party. I ended up yelling up the stairs that if they didn't come back out to the garden right now Boris Johnson would come round and tell them off. For some time she believed that the Prime Minister spent all his time going round people's houses and telling them off for breaking the law. In fact BJ was too busy having his own illegal parties.

Finally, one from my own childhood. When we had rice my dad convinced us that if he chewed really hard he could make a piece of rice come out of his ear. We were amazed. We chewed and chewed but couldn't do it. One day I decided to trick my younger sister by concealing a grain of rice in my hand, chewing exaggeratedly and pulling it from my "ear" with a flourish. She was so jealous she cried. But the thing is ... I still thought my dad could ACTUALLY do it. It didn't occur to me until I was an adult that he had pretended too.

When I first watched Bambi when I was about 4 years old I must have been really upset when his mum died. My mum told me that the deer he met at the end of the film (who was supposed to be his love interest) was actually his mum who had come back. I believed this for a very long time until I watched the film again as a teenager and realised that no, she definitely wasn't his mum 😅

Apparently I may be autistic and have a kind of mental block about lying. Lying makes me physically uncomfortable and I'm very bad at it. I never assume someone is lying either and feel if someone says something they must mean it or it must be true. I know now this isn't the case, but it's caused many issues in my life. 😅

My dad told me the Muppets were real and I remember when he said he was only joking with me and how upset I was that they were not real. I was so disappointed and had believed it for years.