When did you stop believing in Father Christmas?

November_Rain · 28/12/10 - 12:34

And how did you discover the truth?

I think I was 8 when I realised there was no jolly old St Nick. I'm not sure what prompted it exactly, I guess it was hearing it from all my classmates.

topcat2 · 28/12/10 - 12:42

what are you talking about. Of course there is a father christmas!!

[Deleted User] · 28/12/10 - 12:43

in my first year in infants - called reception at the time, dunno if its still called that now - a bunch of kids went around the whole class informing us all that santa wasnt real. ruined my xmas....

November_Rain · 28/12/10 - 13:00

topcat2 wrote: »

what are you talking about. Of course there is a father christmas!!

Someone had to say it.

netcurtains · 28/12/10 - 13:11

Probably about 9 or 10, I can't really remember, it was probably just a gradual realisation rahter than a shock discovery.

towers · 28/12/10 - 13:21

I think I just gradually realised by the time I was 9 or 10.

I remember when I was 6 or 7 in the early hours of Christmas morning, going into my parent's bedroom and telling them that I could hear Santa Claus downstairs. I couldn't understand why my parents looked alarmed.

Luckily there wasn't anyone downstairs, it was just the imagination of a small child.

Henderson · 28/12/10 - 13:21

When I read this thread!! Thanks a lot, you've just ruined Christmas!!

[Deleted User] · 28/12/10 - 13:41

November_Rain wrote: »

And how did you discover the truth?

I think I was 8 when I realised there was no jolly old St Nick. I'm not sure what prompted it exactly, I guess it was hearing it from all my classmates.

La la la la liar liar pants on fire la la la not listening la la la la la la la la.

topcat2 · 28/12/10 - 13:42

November_Rain wrote: »

Someone had to say it.

Just because you don't get any presents doesn't mean he doesn't exist. You are clearly too naughty

:o

shirlt9 · 28/12/10 - 13:47

As a mum..I kept Father Christmas going all through Primary school ..when the kids said there is n such thing its you "Ben" or whoever told me..I would say well if you dont beleive you wont get anything..most of their friends mums did the same so we didnt make them look daft..but I was really peed off when a teaching assistant at primary school told my middle son when he was 8/9 that there wasnt a father christmas it was your mum and dad..I thought that was out of order and not her place to choose when my sn was told that..listening to other kids say it is one thing..but an adult (and one you trust at that) telling you he doesnt exist makes it true..have never forgiven her for that..

My two eldest are 14 and 16 now but we also have a 3 year old..s christmas has been magic again for us all with a little one around..

Red+Blooded · 28/12/10 - 13:48

November_Rain wrote: »

And how did you discover the truth?

I think I was 8 when I realised there was no jolly old St Nick. I'm not sure what prompted it exactly, I guess it was hearing it from all my classmates.

What Truth.

cosmo · 28/12/10 - 14:15

Aged 35.

It was a great let down to learn I'd been told lies all those years.

VoodooChic · 28/12/10 - 15:06

I never believed he was anything but a story.

droogiefret · 28/12/10 - 15:07

Not stopped believing yet.

†¤AzumiMiyako¤† · 28/12/10 - 15:10

Um.... can't remember how old I was. Just woke up to find my dad reaching up to the top of my wardrobe to get my brother's new tv down

The excuse was, "dad was helping father christmas" and I said, "but I thought he was magic?"

I stopped believing after that. No huge loss though tbh lol.

davey_wavey · 28/12/10 - 15:14

Father Christmas is real

SeanHunter · 28/12/10 - 15:15

For me it was the time I came wandering out of "Santa's" Grotto with my underpants round my ankles.

I knew something was amiss then.

[Deleted User] · 28/12/10 - 15:47

many many years ago when I heard my mum one christmas eve swearing because the bar her clothes were hanging from in her wardrobe broke.

[Deleted User] · 28/12/10 - 15:54

I was 7 and it is one of my most vivid memories as a child.

I had a cousin that was 3 years younger than me so when she went to bed my aunt and mum started wrapping her presents from santa right in front of me, I was completely devistated!! I am 35 now and I still remember how I felt.

Hopefully my children will believe for a long time yet, we try our best to keep the magic alive for them.

[Deleted User] · 28/12/10 - 16:06

My brother told me when I was very young, I wasn't having any of it though, Ofcourse Father Christams was real!!!

I think when I was about 8 I knew the truth but I still went along with the lie because Christmas was more fun if I did, it still is.

My son is 9 and doesn't believe anymore but I refuse to tell him the truth, I've told him he can think what he likes but I know he's real!:D

I 've just read that back and can see why I'm such an embaressment to him, poor kid.

Lobelia Overhil · 28/12/10 - 16:08

I never got the chance to believe, when I was about 5 and old enough to understand what Father Christmas was one or other of my older brothers told me there was no such thing and it was mam and dad who bought/gave us our presents.

My mother denied that story for years on grounds that she never told them to tell me there was no such person as Father Christmas

Yeah like that was going to stop an 8 to 12 year old* boy telling his baby sister

(*I can't remember which one told me)

[Deleted User] · 28/12/10 - 23:46

When I was 6 - 7 when my father told me to grow up

GetMeOuttaHere · 28/12/10 - 23:53

I don't remember ever believing.

I visited a friend today and she was recounting her Christmas day with her grandchildren, it involved tales of the big guy. I sat and smiled my way through the conversation whilst thinking there is no such person as FC. I did however feel a bitch for my thoughts and have come to the conclusion that I could be emotionally detached from reality. I think I blame my parents for not giving me a childhood full of fairies, elves and all things fuzzingly warm.

SteelEdge · 29/12/10 - 00:08

I think I was about 8. Kids at school had told me but I still believed. As my birthday is 10 days before Christmas I always used to look for my presents. This year I found one, a game for my Atari, Horror Zombies From The Crypt. I didn't get it for my birthday, but I did get it for Christmas, and on the label, it said 'From Father Christmas'. I then realised it was also written in my Dad's handwriting! I was upset for like 10 mins then forgot about it.

My folks still write 'From Father Christmas' on most of their Xmas presents to me now. I am 28

Leicester_Hunk · 29/12/10 - 00:20

When I woke up one Christmas Eve when I was about 7 and saw someone bumbling about at the bottom of my bed and said is that you dad and he said Bloody hell fire.

Billy_Value · 29/12/10 - 00:31

i can't remember at all, either something happend so traumatic i blanked it out or it really wasn't that much of a big deal

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