... to feel that I was lied to about adulthood (light hearted)

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I was told when I was about 13 that I would get spots but they would be gone when I got to about 21. I'm pushing 40 and I have a spot on my chin so big it woke me up!
Also I was always being told that if you so much as think about a willy without wearing a condom then you will be pregnant within half an hour (not to mention having AIDS). Three sodding years of TTCing and not even a sniff of a blue line.
I'm beginning to doubt everything I was told as a teenager now.

When you are grown up you can do what you like...the world is your oyster etc...yeah right!!!
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iI'm still annoyed at how often I was told as a child I would naturally lose my "baby fat" as I got older. Actually, I was overweight, and it took a lot of hard work, dieting, and exercise to become slim as an adult.

I was told a lot that I would look back and miss childhood and school once I was an adult and had responsibilities. So far, this is the best part of my life.

I hope you get your bfp soon, Pip.

The menstrual blood bollocks - I was told that too, except it was 2 teaspoonfuls. Makes me livid even now - I still think of that twat Mr Chambers when I wake up to a re-enactment of the Texan Chainsaw Massacre.

The whole Peter Pan-esque, your childhood is the best time of your life stuff. Such a lie! Being an adult is so much better.

Also the spots. Complete bollocks.

Also agree with the GCSEs. Worked my bum off for both them and my A levels and now the kind of career I'm planning on going into they don't even go on your CV! That said, I was still am a complete geek, so I wasn't really tricked into studying hard...

I realised the other day that the years between producing and being covered in copious amounts of your own poo, and then cleaning up other people's poo are far too brief. This should be publicised more widely so one can relish poo free years.

It's important to work hard at school and do well academically, this will lead to a good well-paid career. As per CorusKate and Interested this is bollocks and a big fat lie. People who earn massively above average and are having hugely lucrative & successful careers are generally not those who were spoddily top of their class in school. Being highly academic and coming top in your classes will generally only make you fit for a fairly mediocrely-paid academic career, or if you opt out of that due to the hellishness of the infighting in academia, you might find that all your certificates and A*s make you qualified for pretty much nothing.

Everything I was told about adulthood is lie. Except for "you'll wish you had enjoyed being a child more at the time".

When you're an adult, you can stay up as late as you want.....

Yup, unfortunately now I'm an adult every instant of sleep is soooo precious, I'm looking at the clock waiting til it's bedtime.

YYY to the 'if you work hard at school and go to Uni you will have a steady, well paid career all your life giving you self fulfillment and prosperity'

Like f* you do.

Spots- same - I've got more now than when I was a teen!

All DCs need is love. Money helps. A LOT.

Wear braces from 13-17 and you will have a lovely smile.
No- I'd still need veneers to want to open smile in public!

It doesn't matter if you are a girl- we have equality now- you can achieve anything- not in the patriarchy with rife sex discrimination we can't!

Wait until you are ready old and crusty to have sex and let a rapist get there first

I eat all the chocolates in a chocolate advent calendar on the 1st Dec.

To make up for the crushing disappointment of the rest of adulthood.

I still don't have my house with a whole room filled with nothing but beanbags either.

Our school nurse told us that period pain would stop when we stopped growing. To that I say: Liar, liar, pants on fire.