Current Events > What age did you first know that there was no santa claus?

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How old were you?
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5. I definitively confirmed it at age 8 by staying up all night long to see if he would show up
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Like 5 or 6
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Either 4 or 5 where I stayed up all night waiting
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i don't ever remember thinking Santa Claus was real.
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Like 7 or 8 I guess
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more_cow_bell posted...

i don't ever remember thinking Santa Claus was real.

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6
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Dunno. Last time I remember believing in Santa Claus, I asked for a Game Boy for Christmas and never got one. I think that was the last time I sat on his lap or asked him for anything.
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6. A series of events starting with my alcoholic father losing his job led to some church charity giving my family and another poor family we shared a duplex with a full Christmas, covering everything from dinner to clothes to toys complete with Santa and his elves making a very special visit to deliver it all because someone told him that we were very special families.

The next morning, my mom had a local news program on and they did a piece on the church doing that for a lot of families in the area. I asked her how Santa did that and she said it was a lot of Santa's helpers. I bought it for a while but the more I thought about it the less sense it made until it dawned on me that none of it is real.

Stilll super grateful for all of that though. One of the highlights of my childhood and the reason why even as a non-Christian I love the holiday and volunteer with or donate to similar things. I tried to find that church and make a donation or volunteer with them but it's not around anymore.
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9
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4 or 5. I lived in apartments/condos my whole life so it never made sense how he could get into my house without a chimney.

I think I was 23
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A little older than I should have been. >_>
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He's not? COME ON, spoiler alert!

Figured it out by 6 or 7 but played along with my parents for years because I was afraid they'd stop giving me stuff.
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Around 10 I guess
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wow tc reported for spoilers with no warning
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6.

I noticed the mall Santa's beard had a string. I tried to ruin it for my cousin by telling him to look for the string too.

4 or 5. There was a neighbor that would drive around in a santa outfit and talk to all the neighborhood kids. But I recognized him. My parents were adamant he was santa. Not santas heper or anything, but santa. The knew Mr. Wilkerson was not santa so I realized I was being lied too.

It was cool, though, he had a sleight towed by his truck. Might have had reindeer decals in the side but that part I could be making up.
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St_Kevin posted...

6

Seven.
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Zurkon posted...

Im not sure I ever thought he was real. My parents never really pushed it and he was always more of a Christmas character to me like Frosty or Rudolph.

Yep.
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10. My older siblings told me. Parents still game me Santa gifts for another year. My mom told me to not tell kids at school. I remember being 13 and some kids still believed. But i remember a kid being 14 in 8th or 9th grade and he still believed in Santa so naturally everyone made fun of him.

Chris Chan said he was told Santa isnt real at 16 but gave up hope Completely at 24 because he hadnt brought him a girlfriend for the third year in a row. There is a video of his family Christmas in 2004 where he gave his dad a Fraggle Rock VHS, his mom a Hamtaro toy he got for cheap because it was broken and in the video he says he spent most of his money on presents for the girlfriend Santa was meant to bring him

To me, Santa was all but a man that hung out at Queens Center Mall and took pictures.
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I dont have memories of that far back so I dont know if I ever believed or not.
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StickFigures720 posted...

Seven.

https://media.giphy.com/media/uema5crNU5tHG/giphy-downsized-large.gif
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more_cow_bell posted...

i don't ever remember thinking Santa Claus was real.

Me neither.
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I never believed in him. There were too many different depictions for me to buy into him as a real person. He was on TV and then he was in the mall later the same day looking like someone else completely. I remember thinking the other kids must be crying because they realize he's just some creepy old guy too.
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Millennials posted...

6. A series of events starting with my alcoholic father losing his job led to some church charity giving my family and another poor family we shared a duplex with a full Christmas, covering everything from dinner to clothes to toys complete with Santa and his elves making a very special visit to deliver it all because someone told him that we were very special families.

The next morning, my mom had a local news program on and they did a piece on the church doing that for a lot of families in the area. I asked her how Santa did that and she said it was a lot of Santa's helpers. I bought it for a while but the more I thought about it the less sense it made until it dawned on me that none of it is real.

Stilll super grateful for all of that though. One of the highlights of my childhood and the reason why even as a non-Christian I love the holiday and volunteer with or donate to similar things. I tried to find that church and make a donation or volunteer with them but it's not around anymore.

Thanks for the Share and the volunteering! Merry Christmas!
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...what?
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I believe in Santa.....he is real.

As soon as I was old enough to understand things. My parents never lied to me about Santa.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EZobdiJ4M
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Feline_Heart posted...

5. I definitively confirmed it at age 8 by staying up all night long to see if he would show up

Santa doesn't come if you stay awake BAKA
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I always knew that Santa Claus was a mythical figure originating from a Turkish priest named Saint Nicholas and that his gift giving services were combined with the Winter Solstice to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Just another post-modern secularism to mar unbelievers with capitalist qusai-religious lies.

What do you mean there's no Santa Claus?
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10 or 11. Around 8 or 9 I had doubts but didn't know for sure.
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Don't ever remember believing he was. Probably because of my older sisters telling me, or my foreign parents just not playing along with the tradition.

Millennials posted...

6. A series of events starting with my alcoholic father losing his job led to some church charity giving my family and another poor family we shared a duplex with a full Christmas, covering everything from dinner to clothes to toys complete with Santa and his elves making a very special visit to deliver it all because someone told him that we were very special families.

The next morning, my mom had a local news program on and they did a piece on the church doing that for a lot of families in the area. I asked her how Santa did that and she said it was a lot of Santa's helpers. I bought it for a while but the more I thought about it the less sense it made until it dawned on me that none of it is real.

Stilll super grateful for all of that though. One of the highlights of my childhood and the reason why even as a non-Christian I love the holiday and volunteer with or donate to similar things. I tried to find that church and make a donation or volunteer with them but it's not around anymore.

That's really cool
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8

It was like a week before Christmas and I asked my mom if he was real when she was trying to fall asleep until she grudgingly said "no."

Then I ran to my older sisters' to tell them and they were like "yeah, duh".

Then at school I was telling all sorts of people really loudly and arguing with them until my teacher had to pull me away and say something.
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StickFigures720 posted...

Seven.

This. Never bothered me.
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ThanksUglyGod posted...

4 or 5. I lived in apartments/condos my whole life so it never made sense how he could get into my house without a chimney.

This. I asked my dad once and he said he came in through the air vents and I thought "How can a fat guy fit in a 4in x 2in rectangle?" but in 5 year old words.
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Around 4 or 5.

However old I was when my parents decided to let us open or presents the night before Christmas.
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