It was the Rugrats that did this for me. Lifelong fear of watermelon seeds.
Santa is real
Gerry Adams was Santa Claus
That Gerry Adams was in the ‘RA….
Singing along to a CD too often would overwrite the CD with your voice….
Tbf it worked, I didn’t sing along for years 🤣
That if you were naughty you would turn into one of the statues on house of sport roundabout
Mam told me she was going to “give me to the homeless man” once. We were standing right beside the homeless man at the time and he was not very pleased with the suggestion. He wasn’t even a proper bum – he was a normal looking dude reading a book beside his tent.
Anyway I was mortified for her.
My mum told me that if I didn’t stop fidgeting and messing I would be arrested and taken to boarding school. To the point she once drove me to the police station, me in hysterics the whole way thinking I was being sent away.
Anyway the fidgeting and behaviour was made clearer with my adult diagnosis, of course now that I’m diagnosed she has no memory of either threatening me with this or taking me to the police station and thinks me and my sister are lying about it.
“you don’t like nuts”, anytime my Ma had something with any type of nuts she’d tell me “oh you’ll not like that it’s got nuts” but I’d never actually really tried them to have am aversion and it was just her gas lighting me,as an adult who now doesn’t like nuts I’d kinda convinced my self she was afraid I’d have an allergy and was being over protective until I asked her and it was she didn’t want to share tray bakes. Foundation of one of my first food phobias 🏆
Eating vegetables makes you grow up big and strong, I’m 6’4” 125kgs. My favourite vegetable is lettuce on my burger.
My dad once told me I’d be a grown up the next day if I ate a bowl of porridge. I remember it vividly
told me if I slept facing the window I’d see the banshee 🤦🏻♀️ cruel honestly
Aged about six on a family trip to Rathlin Island. I was in the playground in the harbour area when I saw a youth group leader giving out Kitkats to a bunch of kids my age. I pretended to be in her group so that I could get a free kitkat. She looked confused and asked if I was with her, and I said yes and she gave it to me anyway. For years after I felt guilty in case I made her scared that she’d left a child behind on the island, but as an adult in hindsight I think she just gave it to me to make me go away…
“If you eat too many sweets you’ll get worms.”
As adults we were reminiscing about the white lies ma and da had told us over the years, and it turned out two of my siblings hadn’t clocked that one as bullshit. They were in their 20s at this stage
That Sam , my beagle hound, went to live with a pack of hounds in the country.
They had him destroyed because he was a handful.
I loved that dog and still miss him 60 yrs later.
That they had to walk 6 miles to school with no shoes (my grannies was like 10 mins walk max)
If you make a funny face and the wind changes, your face would stay like that forever.
That my dog went to a farm.
Never forgave them for that
Similar to the photo: that if I didn’t allow a splinter to be removed from my foot, I would turn into a tree. It shook me to my core imagining my life as a beech tree down the park.
When I was about six I was playing fighting with my younger brother on the concrete at the front of our house. I pushed him a little too hard and he fell over on the concrete and scraped his knee.
My dad said. “Oh dear, we will have to scrape your knee with a potato peeler so you understand why he’s crying”.
I shit you not, he got a potato peeler out. but we had to go shopping first. I sat in the back of the car trying to pace myself for the planned knee skinning. He asked while we drove to the shops why he should not do it. And I “managed” to talk him out of it. But he said. Next time he will just do it.
I never played with my brother on concrete EVER again
If I didn’t stop eating the chocolate dog treats I’d turn into a dog. It didn’t stop me because I wanted a tail.
One time I accidentally licked some washing up liquid and my mam fully told me I was gonna die. Couldn’t understand why she wasn’t as upset as I was about it
If the McDonald’s sign was lit up then they had ran out of food.*
N.B I was the parent
Not something my parents used to do, but me. Any time my parents left me and my brother in the car for a few mins, I used to spend the time convincing him that he was adopted, sometimes I’d do it until he started crying. Proper asshole behaviour, and I still feel bad about it now 30 years later.
Work hard, get a degree, and you’ll get a good job.
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It was the Rugrats that did this for me. Lifelong fear of watermelon seeds.
Santa is real
Gerry Adams was Santa Claus
That Gerry Adams was in the ‘RA….
Singing along to a CD too often would overwrite the CD with your voice….
Tbf it worked, I didn’t sing along for years 🤣
That if you were naughty you would turn into one of the statues on house of sport roundabout
Mam told me she was going to “give me to the homeless man” once. We were standing right beside the homeless man at the time and he was not very pleased with the suggestion. He wasn’t even a proper bum – he was a normal looking dude reading a book beside his tent.
Anyway I was mortified for her.
My mum told me that if I didn’t stop fidgeting and messing I would be arrested and taken to boarding school. To the point she once drove me to the police station, me in hysterics the whole way thinking I was being sent away.
Anyway the fidgeting and behaviour was made clearer with my adult diagnosis, of course now that I’m diagnosed she has no memory of either threatening me with this or taking me to the police station and thinks me and my sister are lying about it.
“you don’t like nuts”, anytime my Ma had something with any type of nuts she’d tell me “oh you’ll not like that it’s got nuts” but I’d never actually really tried them to have am aversion and it was just her gas lighting me,as an adult who now doesn’t like nuts I’d kinda convinced my self she was afraid I’d have an allergy and was being over protective until I asked her and it was she didn’t want to share tray bakes. Foundation of one of my first food phobias 🏆
Eating vegetables makes you grow up big and strong, I’m 6’4” 125kgs. My favourite vegetable is lettuce on my burger.
My dad once told me I’d be a grown up the next day if I ate a bowl of porridge. I remember it vividly
told me if I slept facing the window I’d see the banshee 🤦🏻♀️ cruel honestly
Aged about six on a family trip to Rathlin Island. I was in the playground in the harbour area when I saw a youth group leader giving out Kitkats to a bunch of kids my age. I pretended to be in her group so that I could get a free kitkat. She looked confused and asked if I was with her, and I said yes and she gave it to me anyway. For years after I felt guilty in case I made her scared that she’d left a child behind on the island, but as an adult in hindsight I think she just gave it to me to make me go away…
“If you eat too many sweets you’ll get worms.”
As adults we were reminiscing about the white lies ma and da had told us over the years, and it turned out two of my siblings hadn’t clocked that one as bullshit. They were in their 20s at this stage
That Sam , my beagle hound, went to live with a pack of hounds in the country.
They had him destroyed because he was a handful.
I loved that dog and still miss him 60 yrs later.
That they had to walk 6 miles to school with no shoes (my grannies was like 10 mins walk max)
If you make a funny face and the wind changes, your face would stay like that forever.
That my dog went to a farm.
Never forgave them for that
Similar to the photo: that if I didn’t allow a splinter to be removed from my foot, I would turn into a tree. It shook me to my core imagining my life as a beech tree down the park.
When I was about six I was playing fighting with my younger brother on the concrete at the front of our house. I pushed him a little too hard and he fell over on the concrete and scraped his knee.
My dad said. “Oh dear, we will have to scrape your knee with a potato peeler so you understand why he’s crying”.
I shit you not, he got a potato peeler out. but we had to go shopping first. I sat in the back of the car trying to pace myself for the planned knee skinning. He asked while we drove to the shops why he should not do it. And I “managed” to talk him out of it. But he said. Next time he will just do it.
I never played with my brother on concrete EVER again
If I didn’t stop eating the chocolate dog treats I’d turn into a dog. It didn’t stop me because I wanted a tail.
One time I accidentally licked some washing up liquid and my mam fully told me I was gonna die. Couldn’t understand why she wasn’t as upset as I was about it
If the McDonald’s sign was lit up then they had ran out of food.*
N.B I was the parent
Not something my parents used to do, but me. Any time my parents left me and my brother in the car for a few mins, I used to spend the time convincing him that he was adopted, sometimes I’d do it until he started crying. Proper asshole behaviour, and I still feel bad about it now 30 years later.
Work hard, get a degree, and you’ll get a good job.
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