when i found out santa claus wasn't real

[JohnCU]

i cried, i think i was 9 or 10.

 

[Q]

Me too

 

[ChanHo78]

I was 5... my asshole neighbor told me.

 

[zinfamous]

I didn't really care, as I assumed that this new knowledge would have no impact on the accumulation of end-of-year loot.

I think I was about 6.

 

[spidey07]

I was 5... my asshole neighbor told me.

What the hell? Even at 5 if somebody said he wasn't real I wouldn't believe them. I think I was maybe 10 or 11 and that was only because I got outta bed and saw my parents setting all my toys up. I died a little inside that day.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What chu talkin' bout Willis?
I know Santa personally and y'all is gettin' coal.

 

[ChanHo78]

nah he was quite a bit older and I idolized him... its ok I knocked him off his bike with a rock to the head later that year.

 

[MrPickins]

I found out when I was 7 or so, but I thought I'd be nice, so I didn't tell my twin sister till the next xmas.

As it turns out, she already knew but was hiding it from me.

 

[amdhunter]

Santa isn't real?
What next...Jesus?

 

[apac]

My girlfriend, who isn't a fan of the holidays, said to me as we were walking through target, "BUT SANTA ISN'T REAL". She then noticed we were in the childrens toy section. Her eyes went wide and she pretty much ran out of the store - I followed, laughing my ass off.

 

[Leros]

I was really young. I think was 3 and a half.

It didn't make sense to me that all the presents we got were things I knew could be bought in the stores. And I knew things were different in different places around the world, so why is Santa who is at the North Pole only giving us things which can be bought in our area. Plus I knew both my parents and pretty much everybody else was going Christmas shopping like crazy. Over the Christmas season I developed lots of other things that just didn't make sense.

I told my parents I didn't believe them and they kept insisting he was real. I kept arguing with them and they finally gave in and admitted he was fake. I was pissed that they lied to me. It pretty much ruined Christmas that year.

 

[HannibalX]

My parents attempted to do the Santa bit with me but I never believed it. Although I don't remember this myself I have been told by my parents that when I was two years old I explained to the family at a Christmas party that Santa wasn't real and gave reasons as to why, mainly that flying deer aren't possible.

 

[aircooled]

I figured it out pretty early in life. I woke up in the middle of the night and found my parents wrapping gifts when I was like 5 or 6.

 

[zinfamous]

I told my parents I didn't believe them and they kept insisting he was real. I kept arguing with them and they finally gave in and admitted he was fake. I was pissed that they lied to me. It pretty much ruined Christmas that year.

No.

You ruined Christmas that year.

 

[James Bond]

The other day my roommate and I were on XBL playing MW2 and some kid (probably about 10) kept calling my roommate gay.

We ignored him for a while, then finally he shouts "LISTEN YOU LITTLE FUCKER, SANTA ISNT EVEN REAL SO SHUT UP". The kid just went dead silent. He finished the game then left.

I felt bad.

 

[sjwaste]

It never made sense to me, but I believed it anyway. I think someone at school told me, probably a little older than most kids are when they hear it, like 8 or 9. Basically, I had always suspected it, but I think I remember rationalizing it away for one more Christmas.

It's odd, I'm not a very gullible person, and really have never tended to trust what people told me at face value. My parents must've told a really consistent story all those years.

The thing is, the year I found out, I also had a 4 year old sister, so I basically had to keep it going for her. As in, I had enough maturity to not run and ruin it for her (and my parents didnt even have to tell me not to), but at the same time I was still immature enough to have believed in santa claus until that age. Funny.

I remember when my parents finally told me a year later, and they were shocked to hear that I already knew but wanted to keep it real for my sister.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I was 5, heard noises downstairs, went to chiggity check it and it was the folks stockin the loot under the tree.

 

[mmntech]

I think it I was eight or nine. My friends and I had a discussion over how elves could make something as complex as a Sega Genesis.

 

[Jeff7]

I was maybe 4 or 5. I was more upset and confused as to why my parents would lie to me like that.

 

[fleabag]

I was 6 and I ran over and told everybody in class... THEN the teacher had the nerve to force me to apologize to the entire class for saying what I said. By first grade, everyone knew that he didn't exist... kinda frustrating but whatever.

 

[Q]

Kind of unrelated but a few years back when my younger brother still believed, we had a lot of fun doing Santa stuff to make him all excited, so on Christmas Eve we got Santa's boots (my Dad's) and 'dipped' them in baking powder to make footprints from the fireplace to the tree. It wasn't until the next morning that we realized Santa had 2 left feet (brother didn't notice of course, but it was so hard to keep the laughter in)

 

[SunSamurai]

I basically had the "no shit" response at around 8.

 

[aigomorla]

Santa isn't real?
What next...Jesus?

no the Easter bunny.

 

[yhelothar]

don't ever remember believing santa. I think my mom never played it with me, she always just took me to the toy store to get something within a budget.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

One of my older cousins convinced me Santa was bogus at Grandmas house on Christmas Eve, created quite the rukus and got his ass beat I think I was 6