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02 Jun 2025, 8:14 pm

When you were little and lost a tooth, did you believe the Tooth Fairy came and visited you at night?



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02 Jun 2025, 8:25 pm

Yes :oops:


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02 Jun 2025, 9:19 pm

I did.


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02 Jun 2025, 9:32 pm

Yes....its one of the reasons why I cant ever fully trust my parents again....I know they thought it was "innocent" lie but they still lied to me.



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02 Jun 2025, 9:33 pm

You mean there isn't a tooth fairy??? :(



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02 Jun 2025, 9:43 pm

I did, and I once got really upset because I left a tooth sitting out, intending to put it under my pillow that night, and it got lost. My parents really got themselves into a mess that time. And to this day I know that somewhere in the house there is an old tooth. It may never be found. :eew:

I remember when I figured out that those things weren't real. It started when I was about 10 and I noticed that Santa had the same handwriting as my mom and used the same wrapping paper that we used. From there I deduced that the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy were also lies. I wasn't upset because it wasn't the first time I uncovered a lie my parents had told me, so by that point I knew what to expect from them.


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02 Jun 2025, 9:50 pm

I've read that the concept of the Tooth Fairy was invented to give children comfort in losing teeth rather than it causing them worry.



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02 Jun 2025, 10:29 pm

Unsure.

More like confused.
Like, "really?" And see if it's true.

Like thinking it snows in the tropics, I waited and nothing happened.
Just made me more disbelieving towards many more things.


I wish it were true, like many things.
And like with many things, I've only gotten more disappointed.


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02 Jun 2025, 10:35 pm

Sure ,do Miss those days.. :o


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02 Jun 2025, 10:46 pm

I did
Up untill the age of 6

As did I believe in Santa clause and the Easter bunny.

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02 Jun 2025, 10:59 pm

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
Yes....its one of the reasons why I cant ever fully trust my parents again....I know they thought it was "innocent" lie but they still lied to me.

I believed it for a little while, though I don't think they called it a tooth fairy, it was just "the fairies." I'd put a tooth under the pillow and in the morning there'd be a sixpence.

I don't think finding that it was a lie especially made me distrust my parents. I remember asking my dad when I was about 9 if there was really any such thing as Father Christmas, and he looked uncomfortable and wouldn't answer. So I suspected he was being cagey because Santa didn't exist and Dad didn't want to lie in answer to a point-blank question like that, and I gradually figured out that I was right, that these amazing stories about magic and stuff aren't usually true. I think I just saw such lies as the kind of things the Big People sometimes tell kids.

I think it's healthy to grow somewhat suspicious of what authority figures say anyway or what anybody says, because they don't necessarily have your best interests at heart, and they don't necessarily even understand what your best interests might be. As long as you trust your own judgement, there's often no need to particularly believe anybody. It doesn't always mean they're bad people, they might be trying to protect you or they might just be passing on false ideas that they themselves believed. And imagine how vulnerable a person would be if they were incapable of ever lying.



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02 Jun 2025, 11:41 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
Yes....its one of the reasons why I cant ever fully trust my parents again....I know they thought it was "innocent" lie but they still lied to me.

I believed it for a little while, though I don't think they called it a tooth fairy, it was just "the fairies." I'd put a tooth under the pillow and in the morning there'd be a sixpence.

I don't think finding that it was a lie especially made me distrust my parents. I remember asking my dad when I was about 9 if there was really any such thing as Father Christmas, and he looked uncomfortable and wouldn't answer. So I suspected he was being cagey because Santa didn't exist and Dad didn't want to lie in answer to a point-blank question like that, and I gradually figured out that I was right, that these amazing stories about magic and stuff aren't usually true. I think I just saw such lies as the kind of things the Big People sometimes tell kids.

I think it's healthy to grow somewhat suspicious of what authority figures say anyway or what anybody says, because they don't necessarily have your best interests at heart, and they don't necessarily even understand what your best interests might be. As long as you trust your own judgement, there's often no need to particularly believe anybody. It doesn't always mean they're bad people, they might be trying to protect you or they might just be passing on false ideas that they themselves believed. And imagine how vulnerable a person would be if they were incapable of ever lying.


"Poor girl", she thought it was a sin to lie, and that all older persons ,had only got to be a big persons ,because they did not lie. Otherwise they would have gone to hell. That what I was taught. And I trusted that . And Sooo many different people took advantage of my naivete almost up to my 16 th birthday....When you realize, later that ,it was a lie, in and of itself. As I got to be realizing what was what...The bitterness and disillusionment was monumental for me. Welcome to institutional Catholicism . Only thing that got me through it at that time ,was a book by Norman Vincent Peele,
" The Power of Positive Thinking" . Add Asperger's and it made for a easy target :(


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03 Jun 2025, 12:26 am

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Well yes, ASD tends to be characterised by pathological honesty, so to reinforce that with moral indoctrination, considering what a dirty world we're in, I would think is a downright hateful thing to do.



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03 Jun 2025, 2:45 am

Oh I love believing in things me


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03 Jun 2025, 3:51 am

I did, and I was disappointed to find my tooth still under my pillow the next morning. That ended my belief :/



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03 Jun 2025, 6:10 am

I didn't see how my parents could possibly leave money under my pillow and take the tooth without waking me up. The Tooth Fairy had to be the one doing it I believed.