Hold old were you and how did you find out....

that Santa was your parents?

I don't remember it being overly traumatic. I remember finding presents in the back of a deep closet and getting bagged by my dad while I was in there.

My neighbor had to tell there daughter once she started middle school!

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What??????? Santa isn't real? I can't remember! I'm sure my older sister told me in some horrific way though

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i'm like you. i wasnt traumatized by it, i kinda just realized it when one day i saw my mom wrapping Christmas presents, lol. i think i was about 5 or 6 when i found out.

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Posted by Phyl

What??????? Santa isn't real? I can't remember! I'm sure my older sister told me in some horrific way though

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OK...I was in the 5th grade and seriously was upset. Some jerk at school was like "everyone knows that Santa is your mom and dad." I just couldn't believe that all that time it was my parents...I went home and yelled at my mom for lying about Santa.
I def think they should have told me sooner...I was so embarrassed

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2nd grade

David Gross (jealous Jewish kid ) blurted it out

For unrelated reasons, the next year I was enrolled in Catholic school and Santa was alive and well again

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I walked in on my Dad changing OUT of the Santa outfit one Christmas Eve at my Aunt's. I was five or six
My sister had been harassing me that Santa was fake, but I didn't believe her until I saw my Dad with a beard on and Santa's velvety red pants in his hand

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wow i was like 12 and it just happened gradually

when i was about 11 my best friend and I wrote out letters for Santa to sign so we could compare signatures to make sure he was real LOL well the MATCHED so that was a whole other year of holding on to the myth

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I was in 6th grade and the teacher who spilled the beans was Jewish and made a joke about it. I went home and cried and my mother was furious. What a tool I was...being in 6th grade thinking Santa was real

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Ugh bad memory....My cousin (who I still hate for various reasons, LOL) told me (I was 5 years old) and then woke me up when my parents were putting the presents under the tree and dragged me to the living room so I could see what my parents were doing.

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I was in 3rd or 4th Grade. Half the class got into an argument about it.
I gradually figured it out, when, I saw gifts in my parents closet, signed..Santa

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3rd grade when my gf told me about everything!!

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I would say around 4 or 5th grade because my Uncle who lived across the street from us dressed as santa claus and he would come over and give my sister and i presents,'WELL' one year my sister decide's because she doesn't believe in santa she was going to ruin it for me... well not on purpose she just blurted out our uncles name and i was devastated!!

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i was 3

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I caught my mom filling the stockings when I got up to go to the bathroom. Her response was "Don't tell your brother" I was 7 or 8 I think.

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my sister told me, I cried, she got in trouble

end of story, thanks mel

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Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH

2nd grade

David Gross (jealous Jewish kid ) blurted it out

For unrelated reasons, the next year I was enrolled in Catholic school and Santa was alive and well again

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My parents told me that all those nonJewish kids were idiots at a very young age. And we were the chosen ones cuz we got 8 nights, and they only got 1.



little did they know I'd marry one of those idiot nonjews, and their grandson would actually wind up getting NINE days of holidays with xmas and Hannukah combined.

who's the idiot NOW, mom and dad?????

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I think I was in fourth grade when I knew for sure, but already had doubts in third grade. I belive it was from kids in school talking about it. I didn't let on that I knew until much later on though, I didn't want to disappoint my family, they went to such great lengths to try to keep Santa alive.

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I believed in Santa for a long time ..... about 10 or so.

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Posted by Nicole728

OK...I was in the 5th grade and seriously was upset. Some jerk at school was like "everyone knows that Santa is your mom and dad." I just couldn't believe that all that time it was my parents...I went home and yelled at my mom for lying about Santa.
I def think they should have told me sooner...I was so embarrassed

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8 or 9 years old. I saw the U-Drive It set in the attic. I waited until Christmas if the tag said it was from Santa or Mom & Dad.

My son had show & tell on Friday. We had to review the who, what, where, why & when with them what they were going to say about their object. When I said "When did you get it?"

He said "Chirstmas. Santa gave it to me." I said "No I'm pretty sure that was from Aunt Lauren or Mommy & Daddy." I tried very hard to convince him it wasn't Santa because I was afraid some other little 1st grader would start the discussion & ruin it. Unfortunately, he's got a very good memory.

After a panicked moment, I changed the "when" part to when do you play with it.

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I was 13

My father made Santa very real in our house. He would even climb up on our roof with bells and would make noises to make us think the reindeer were up there and would make these really loud HO HO HO's. (It was actually a big joke with our neighbors, it is hard to believe it we believed for so long)

My fathers GF told me and I was devastated They actually almost broke-up because of it.

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I was 8 or 9. I had gotten all this gear for camping (I was big into girl scouts) from Santa. It had all been set up on my living room floor like a campsite would have been. Well, that afternoon I found all the boxes it all came in collapsed and ready to be trashed in the den. Along with the "special Santa sparkly wrapping paper". I flew up the stairs with the roll of paper yelling at my mom . She was so upset. They thought for sure they had a few extra years of me believing ....