Everybody's family is a little weird in some way, but as a kid, you don't know any better. This leads to most of us having an awkward moment later on with friends; it turns out everyone else's parents created weird little falsehoods that only they've ever heard of, too. Whether it's pronunciations, explanations for the amount of random kids who stayed with your family, or simply the financial situations between private and public school families, people perceive the world in their own little way before they can experience it on their own.
Life is full of discovery; life is particularly full of discovering times people realized something from their childhood was… different. r/AskReddit users recalled a teacher who pretended he dated a mermaid, the mom who told her kid that it was illegal for cashiers to sell candy to kids when it was not their birthday, and the person who grew up adding sugar to Coke…
At least it's a little better than people later realizing something was illegal.
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