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I think some of the stuff you worry about as a kid will just arise naturally. Ideas like not stepping on cracks, or imagining monsters in dark places are likely produced spontaneously and naturally by an underdeveloped ape brain.
But it'd be nice if we didn't tell kids about old superstitions, yeah. Wait until they're old enough to react with dismissal about the stupid stuff people used to believe.
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It's a rule created by adults who got tired of kids stuffing themselves with food and then jumping in the pool and throwing up. It has nothing to do with cramps, and everything to do with making a child wait a few minutes after eating because kids have zero self-control.
Why not just tell them that it will make them throw up then? Kids don't enjoy throwing up.
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As a kid, I always assumed if someone fell down the stairs--they died. It just appeared that way often enough in tv and movies.
Just a random fact that had barely anything to do with anything: In parts of Germany, there is the saying "did you fall down the stairs backwards" when someone cuts their hair quite short. I am from a part of Germany where this is not common and first time I heard it, it was a mentally handicapped person so I assumed he was just talking random stuff as he often did until I was told that that is common here.
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That one is way more true than "if you swim after you eat you will die". And even the swimming one is way more true than the interpretation that most people had that if you just enter the water, you will die.
If you really want something crazy, look up "fan death".
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I remember my grandmother would tell us kids when we misbehaved that she would, and I quote, 'take us out to the barn and skin us alive!' Imagine how many trigger sessions of therapy that would take if the new gens of today heard this.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Suffering olympics aren't real. eg You don't have to participate
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
Are you me?
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As a kid, I always assumed if someone fell down the stairs--they died. It just appeared that way often enough in tv and movies.
What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
Story of my god damn life. Thanks to them I struggle to hold down a job.
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]lol anyone else remember being in pre-k and pleading with God not to send you into eternal fire?
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Why not just tell them that it will make them throw up then? Kids don't enjoy throwing up.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Speak for yourself. Gestures to children triggering their own gag reflex for fun and profit
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Are you me?
No pretty sure they're me.
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For me it was if you swallow a plant seed, the plant will grow in your stomach and you will die from it. My dad was joking, but I was 5 and didn't know any better. I went on believing that until I was in my teens because things like that you don't re-evaluate every so often. It's just "my dad told me this and he wouldn't lie to me because grownups don't lie" stuck on autopilot.
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Was told that watching too much TV would make my eyes square.
Also, attaching sheets of papers to the front of the TV (static of CRTs) could allegedly make the TV explode.
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I was told the same thing but I don't really feel anxious very often.
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You won't die right away but supposedly digesting food causes the digestive tract to draw in more blood, leaving less for the muscles used in swimming and increasing the risk for cramps and fatigue.
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Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.
I feel your pain with the narcissist parents. My parents were autists, so there was a lot of abuse growing up.
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In my early school years, we only had round tipped plastic safety scissors that could barely cut tissue paper. As a kid, I was terrified at the degree of responsibility and potential to take another kid's life those scissors represented.
The adults in charge when I was a kid had us convinced that if we ran with scissors in our hands we were going to kill the other children in the vicinity by accident in the most horrifically bloody and violent manner. They even showed us video re-enactments of children getting stabbed in the heart, neck, and eye complete with fake blood gushing out and Bugs Bunny worthy death performances.
A lot of us thought this was some super common way that kids were dying by the millions all across the world.
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What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.
I wish i could remember! Guess I'm old enough now to have forgotten where those ideas even came from. Whatever it was, it was likely in the early-mid 80's...
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Just a random fact that had barely anything to do with anything: In parts of Germany, there is the saying "did you fall down the stairs backwards" when someone cuts their hair quite short. I am from a part of Germany where this is not common and first time I heard it, it was a mentally handicapped person so I assumed he was just talking random stuff as he often did until I was told that that is common here.
That's such a fun tangent! Thanks for sharing that
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If you didn't know what my point was, how can then formulate your own point from it? So confusing.
We're hopeful you will see a therapist to deal with those repressed memories from your grandma, since you are behaving so oddly.
We are all rooting for you champ!
