How did you find out about "Santa"?

[brandywine0880]

I guess most people realize on their own. I had the good fortune of answering the door on Christmas day and exclaiming to the neighbors, "Look what SANTA brought me!!!" and my mom, still drunk from the annual X-Mas Eve party says, "Oh shut up Brandy, there's no such thing as Santa." > < That was my face. Today I think it's sort of funny in a really dark way. It makes me think of Kat Williams saying he doesn't bullshit his kids into believing in Santa. He said something like, "You know Daddy bought you that X Box with Daddy's weed money" LMAO!....... So I was just curious if anybody else had f*cked up ways they found out about Santa.

p.s~ I'm real sorry if you believed in Santa and I just ruined your Christmas. Happy Holidays. Hail Santa! I mean Satan!

[Head Wreck]

4 years old and i kept it to myself for years as all my friends belived, and was aware its probably not the coolest thing to do to call their perents liars, surest method to a schoolyard fight ever (no word of a lie, most of my friends were twice my height at that time)

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

realized, in the third grade, that "santa" had the same handwriting as my mom, and her g/f at the time...

so yeah, I knew...

never said anything, and was still getting gifts from the jolly one, well, into my teens...

[hunhee]

My first xmas I was 5, I had just come to the US that September. I thought that Halloween thing was pretty kick ass till Xmas came. I remember having to sit on some old guys lap while he tried to communicate to us. He probably asked me what I wanted for xmas, but I didn't speak english or even engrish then, so I had no clue why I was sitting on this old smelly man's lap.. (he was probably just a kid himself in a santa suit).

When my brother and I woke up one morning, there were a crap load of boxes under the tree. At the orphanage, we had a sorta xmas, but we were only allowed 1 gift a year. My brother and I took our one box and opened them and started playing with them. I remember thinking how great that xmas followed us here from Korea. My parents had a hard time communicating to us that ALL the presents under the tree were for us. We were AMAZED!!! (My parents were so happy to have us, they got carried away with the present buying).

I have always been good at logic, and reasoning. I pretty much figured it out on my own (after I overcame the language barrier). It wasn't until my brother at like 11 got in a fight at school that he found out about santa/easter bunny et al. He got in a fight because he thought that our parents would not lie to us. My parents had to sit down and have a talk with him, they assumed that he knew that they were santa. After a lot of talking, and the reasons behind it, he finally understood. They said they should probably tell me about it, (I was 2 years younger). My brother said that they should wait.

When my brother finally said something about it, I told him I knew and had known for a long time. I was just pretending because I figured if I didn't, they wouldn't give me gifts anymore. LMAO

[brandywine0880]

4 years old and i kept it to myself for years as all my friends belived, and was aware its probably not the coolest thing to do to call their perents liars, surest method to a schoolyard fight ever (no word of a lie, most of my friends were twice my height at that time)

Wow, I think that was very nice of you not to shatter their dreams of the big, jolly man. Very dignified! lol (even if they were bigger than you)

[brandywine0880]

My first xmas I was 5, I had just come to the US that September. I thought that Halloween thing was pretty kick ass till Xmas came. I remember having to sit on some old guys lap while he tried to communicate to us. He probably asked me what I wanted for xmas, but I didn't speak english or even engrish then, so I had no clue why I was sitting on this old smelly man's lap.. (he was probably just a kid himself in a santa suit).

When my brother and I woke up one morning, there were a crap load of boxes under the tree. At the orphanage, we had a sorta xmas, but we were only allowed 1 gift a year. My brother and I took our one box and opened them and started playing with them. I remember thinking how great that xmas followed us here from Korea. My parents had a hard time communicating to us that ALL the presents under the tree were for us. We were AMAZED!!! (My parents were so happy to have us, they got carried away with the present buying).

I have always been good at logic, and reasoning. I pretty much figured it out on my own (after I overcame the language barrier). It wasn't until my brother at like 11 got in a fight at school that he found out about santa/easter bunny et al. He got in a fight because he thought that our parents would not lie to us. My parents had to sit down and have a talk with him, they assumed that he knew that they were santa. After a lot of talking, and the reasons behind it, he finally understood. They said they should probably tell me about it, (I was 2 years younger). My brother said that they should wait.

When my brother finally said something about it, I told him I knew and had known for a long time. I was just pretending because I figured if I didn't, they wouldn't give me gifts anymore. LMAO

I think I sort of knew deep down "the truth", but just like you I figured if I denied him then he would pass me by. My mom was just a brute about it lol!

[JaneDead]

realized, in the third grade, that "santa" had the same handwriting as my mom, and her g/f at the time...

so yeah, I knew...

never said anything, and was still getting gifts from the jolly one, well, into my teens...

i had a feel there wasn't a santa for a long time then i got a letter one year (we slept at my grandma's and santa wrote me a note saying our presents were at home waiting) and same for me: santa's writing was the same as mom's so then i knew for SURE. i think i said something though and my mom just blew it off that i was wrong about the handwriting. she didn't even try to change it at all. she should have had someone else in the family write the letter if she didn't want me to figure it out.

[taysteewonderbunny]

Ack! I thought I posted in this, but I got signed out somehow and it didn't go through. I was 5 and my brother was 3 when we sat my mom down and told her that the ruse was up. "Why do you think there's no Santa?" she asked. "Mom, seriously. 1) There is no way a man, let alone an obese one, can fit down our chimney. Especially because the exhaust pipe is actually really small and fitted with that metal and mesh hat to keep small animals out. 2) There are never any reindeer hoofprints on our roof. If ever they were up there, it would wake the whole house. 3) The world is WAY to big for one man to make it to all the houses of all the children, and there are deserving children without houses and if Santa was the saint he's supposed to be, he'd visit them first. And there are many many houses without chimneys at all. And what about all the kids in apartments? 4) There is never any soot on the carpet. 5) YOU know which presents are whose even though there are never any gift tags. 6) We know you hide the presents in the broken deep freezer in the basement. 7) Elves do NOT make Lego. 8) There is NO way that Santa uses the same old wrapping paper that you use every year; no one else has that wrapping paper--it's ugly. 9) Like a gazillion people dress up as Santa every year and none of them are the real Santa. It's just like the Easter Bunny, but bigger. Give it up. We know that you and dad buy our presents, and we thank you." That year, my mom made the lamest attempt ever to persuade us to believe--she put black construction paper "footprints" on the carpet Christmas morning. My brother just rolled his eyes.

[Msterbeau]

Osmosis

[Eevee]

I can't remember, lol

[Azeuron]

You mean he's not real?!?!?!?!?!!? :cry :cry :cry :cry

[DarkVampire]

I don't remember what age but I found out after noising around. Found some presents before they were wrapped, which happen to be presents that came from "Santa" on Christmas Day.

[prick]

Wait, what about Santa? He comes to my house every christmas.

[TheGimp]

my mom just told me when i was like 10 but she gose dont tell ur brothers...when i asked why she needed to tell me she jst said it was time i shruged and said ok...

[jynxxxedangel]

I still believe in Santa.

[TygerLili]

Ack! I thought I posted in this, but I got signed out somehow and it didn't go through. I was 5 and my brother was 3 when we sat my mom down and told her that the ruse was up. "Why do you think there's no Santa?" she asked. "Mom, seriously. 1) There is no way a man, let alone an obese one, can fit down our chimney. Especially because the exhaust pipe is actually really small and fitted with that metal and mesh hat to keep small animals out. 2) There are never any reindeer hoofprints on our roof. If ever they were up there, it would wake the whole house. 3) The world is WAY to big for one man to make it to all the houses of all the children, and there are deserving children without houses and if Santa was the saint he's supposed to be, he'd visit them first. And there are many many houses without chimneys at all. And what about all the kids in apartments? 4) There is never any soot on the carpet. 5) YOU know which presents are whose even though there are never any gift tags. 6) We know you hide the presents in the broken deep freezer in the basement. 7) Elves do NOT make Lego. 8) There is NO way that Santa uses the same old wrapping paper that you use every year; no one else has that wrapping paper--it's ugly. 9) Like a gazillion people dress up as Santa every year and none of them are the real Santa. It's just like the Easter Bunny, but bigger. Give it up. We know that you and dad buy our presents, and we thank you." That year, my mom made the lamest attempt ever to persuade us to believe--she put black construction paper "footprints" on the carpet Christmas morning. My brother just rolled his eyes.

I think my mom and I had a very similar conversation, but I was 7 or 8. My mom even bought herself presents from Santa that year, to try to convince me.

*edited because "cinvince" is not a word.*

[prick]

Santa just doesnt come to non believers houses.

[TheGimp]

Santa just doesnt come to non believers houses.

well he dosent come to my house cuz of the restraining order

[brandywine0880]

Ack! I thought I posted in this, but I got signed out somehow and it didn't go through. I was 5 and my brother was 3 when we sat my mom down and told her that the ruse was up. "Why do you think there's no Santa?" she asked. "Mom, seriously. 1) There is no way a man, let alone an obese one, can fit down our chimney. Especially because the exhaust pipe is actually really small and fitted with that metal and mesh hat to keep small animals out. 2) There are never any reindeer hoofprints on our roof. If ever they were up there, it would wake the whole house. 3) The world is WAY to big for one man to make it to all the houses of all the children, and there are deserving children without houses and if Santa was the saint he's supposed to be, he'd visit them first. And there are many many houses without chimneys at all. And what about all the kids in apartments? 4) There is never any soot on the carpet. 5) YOU know which presents are whose even though there are never any gift tags. 6) We know you hide the presents in the broken deep freezer in the basement. 7) Elves do NOT make Lego. 8) There is NO way that Santa uses the same old wrapping paper that you use every year; no one else has that wrapping paper--it's ugly. 9) Like a gazillion people dress up as Santa every year and none of them are the real Santa. It's just like the Easter Bunny, but bigger. Give it up. We know that you and dad buy our presents, and we thank you." That year, my mom made the lamest attempt ever to persuade us to believe--she put black construction paper "footprints" on the carpet Christmas morning. My brother just rolled his eyes.

Ha ha ha, props to Mom for at least giving it a shot! LOL elves don't make legos....too funny

[Head Wreck]

one of my childhood friends actially was scared vy the prospect of someone entering the house at night, so he asked Santa to leave the presents at his grandparents house (and to knock the door etc as they were waiting)

i cant fault his logic there

[Nienna]

I was watching Gremlins on HBO and there is that scene where they talk about it. LOL I asked my dad, who was (and still is) a HUGE stoner, and he just looked confused and then begged me not to tell my brother. LOL

[Simon Bar Sinister]

I don't know that I ever "found out"; the whole story just struck me as complete bullshit from the word go, so I never believed it in the first place.

[taysteewonderbunny]

I still believe in Santa.

He's just in it for the cookies.

[brandywine0880]

one of my childhood friends actially was scared vy the prospect of someone entering the house at night, so he asked Santa to leave the presents at his grandparents house (and to knock the door etc as they were waiting)

i cant fault his logic there

OMG that's awesome I just lol'd!

[Msterbeau]

He's just in it for the cookies.

Aren't we all?