Been Told A White Lie When Young?

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Has anyone been told a white lie by someone in their family when they were young, and didn't realize it was a lie until adulthood?

We used to go on summer vacations in a small bungalow near the ocean when we were kids. My mother never went swimming with us, and she always said she didn't want to wet her hair. She had a fairly short haircut, set in place, like they typically did in the beauty parlors at that time.

Anyhoo, I never questioned the fact that she didn't want to go into deep water or swim with us, due to her hairdo. Once, when I was young, I was walking out in the water at the beach, and there was a 'drop', so two steps further, I was over my head and panicky, I was not an experienced swimmer at all. My older brother rushed into the water and brought me where I could stand again. I remember that my mother was very upset.

Only after my mom passed on, did my older sister mention that she was afraid of the water and didn't know how to swim. She said that my mother did not want us to develop any fears that she had. I never knew that at all, and was amazed to hear it. I always just accepted the fact that my mother didn't want to get her hair wet.

Am I alone, any similar stories of white lies told to protect us as children?
 

I don't remember it but when my dummy vanished from my life I was told a dog stole it. I used to front up to dogs and tell them off about it in baby talk. The family thought it was hilarious, and there must have been some pretty puzzled dogs around too. :glee:

There were quite a few 'white lies' told about people who took on a whole new persona to me in later life when the truth was told, I guess that happens in most families though.

Not a white lie, but a neglectful and confusing oversight made my first day at school memorable.
When the roll was called I didn't answer but looked around for the kid with the same surname as mine. What I'd always been called, and presumed was my name, wasn't what was on the birth certificate and school registration books. No one ever thought to enlighten me about that little detail. I'd never once heard it before that day.
Imagine starting out on your educational journey not even knowing your own name!
I don't think I'll ever really forgive them for that.
 
I remember being told that the stork brings the babies and believed it too. I can't remember when I found out that the babies actually grow in cabbage patches.:doh::doh:
 

Well I was told a white lie i think .. to this day I am still not sure;););) ...
I was told I have brothers and sisters ...
They are not as good looking and smart as me ..
I feel I was told a big fat white lie ...

Will never know my parents are dead ..
 
I was told:


  • the government would watch over me
  • the policeman is my friend
  • you'll NEED this math later in life
  • girls are special, fragile flowers
  • barking dogs don't bite
  • learning to play the Flutophone is important
  • and worst of all - that I wasn't born but was a Blue-Light Special at K-Mart (thank you Calvin & Hobbes!)
 
What about Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy,


If you’re still telling your 12-year-old that there’s really a Santa Claus, you’re probably taking it a little too far


Your 5-year-old isn’t going to hate you forever for pretending that the Tooth Fairy left a fiver under their pillow.


I believe they are just innocent ‘white lies’ that we all tell our kids so their faces light up with joy
as they indulge in the pleasure of make-believe?


Long may these innocent white lies continue

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My older brothers and sisters used to tell me that the family found me in a garbage can. Believed it for years until my parents got wind of the white lie and set me straight.

Brown cows give chocolate milk.

If you put a buttercup flower under your chin and it reflects the yellow, that means you like butter.
 
My folks told me the usual Santa Claus and Easter Bunny stories, but once I started to question it, they just let me stop believing the stories, and didn't try to convince me either way. I still got presents from Santa, and still dropped my little hints by saying something to the effect of "letting Santa know" what I was hoping for.
Other than that, I don't really think they told me any white lies, but I am sure mom told me the truth in the most pleasant way possible. I have been trying hard to remember anything that I found out later was not true, but I can't think of anything.

Since that is how I was raised, that is also pretty much what I did with my kids also, although I probably did tell them some stories that they found out the truth about later.
I used to call my daughter " Eggberta " ( her name was Roberta), so naturally, it was easy to add the Humperdinck on to the end of that. Years later, she came running up to tell me, "Mom, there really IS an Englebert Humperdinck "
All that time, she thought it was just one of Moms stories....
 
Whenever we had a thunderstorm... the lightning & thunder frightened the crap out of me. What made it even worse, was that my mum told me it was "Jackie Thunder".... a boogie man that was out to get me for misbehaving.
Yep... at the time I believed it !

 
Was told and believed as a little kid, that those antique porcelain ceramic twisty insulators used on fencing around my grandfathers farm back in the 50's were bird telephones. I so wanted to believe...
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I would sit and wait for the longest time for a bird to come and make a call!


Also, a smokehouse on the farm had my attention, because Gramps told me the three bears came there often. :stirthepot:
I was mentally abused as a little kid ..lol
 

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