There are a lot of childhood memories that get turned on their head when one grows up and has enough context to process what was really going on. As it turns out, those brief bursts of clarity aren’t limited to just times when one was a kid.
Someone asked folks online to share “Something you found out YEARS later and immediately went: Wait. That’s what was happening?” and netizens answered. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite stories and be sure to add your own examples to the comments down below.
#61
One of my earliest memories was being woken up late at night, being placed in a car and being told to “go back to sleep.” I’d wake up in the backseat of a car, dark outside, under streetlights in a parking lot. Apartment building outside. Couple this with memories of helping my dad move out of our house, and then visiting him in “the barracks,” then finding out my dad had an affair…My mom was getting me up to park outside his spot to watch [him].
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#62
When I was a kid, everyone had to be in choir in our school. The choir teacher took me and a couple of other kids aside one day and said we were doing great, but we were singing a little too loud and she was going to teach us how to control that. She had us put our hands on our throats and sing quieter and quieter until we couldn’t feel any vibrations. When I was in my twenties I was like “HEY!!!!!!”
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#63
I used to think skunks were a lot more prevalent than they actually are.
When I was like 30 I found out --- nope, that was my parents little evening ritual. Still is and they are like 75.
When I was like 30 I found out --- nope, that was my parents little evening ritual. Still is and they are like 75.
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#64
I just got my driver’s permit (15). My big brother & his wife let me drive to the city to shop w/ them. On the way home (1.5hrs) they laid in the back of the minivan, making an ad hoc wall with shoe and clothing boxes so I couldnt see anything.
and after while the van started to shake/rock while I was driving….
I yelled out in alarm but my brother, from behind the boxes just said “Its OK KEEP DRIVING!”
So I did…. and didnt figure out what caused the rocking until some years later.
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