Many of us grow up being told some lies and myths to get us to not do specific things. While we may have believed it back then, we definitely don’t believe it now that we’ve grown up and learned that things are not the way we thought they were.
Thankfully, Millennials have grown up and seen the light. We know now, we’ve been lied to.
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Marriage is about friendship, not sex.
“Then I ended up in a marriage that was the perfect friendship, but there just wasn’t chemistry in the sex. It turns out you can have as many friends as you want, but in most marriages, your wife is the only one you can have sex with. So it’s pretty important that you’re satisfied with the intimate part of your relationship with your spouse,” said TBSchemer
All you need is a bachelor’s degree to be successful.
Like many of us, going to college was the golden ticket to getting a good job and getting by in life. However, that’s not always the case. In fact, it’s not the case anymore for many of us.
Turning the light on in a car is “illegal.”
“My parents would act like armageddon was imminent when someone had to turn on the dome light when I was little.
Now they sit in the passenger seat while I’m driving at night and look at their phones with the screen brightness turned all the way up,” said SweetAnnie_
Spending time on the computer will be a regret later in life.
Dubalubawubwub was told spending too much time on the computer will backfire and they’ll regret it down the road. But, it’s helped a lot of people gain a lot of employment and some serious skills.
Desk jobs are the key to success.
“Fewer millennials are going into skilled trades or going to trade schools. Those that do are finding they can live very comfortably, and there’s no glass ceiling. You can work your way up and live very well. Also, with fewer and fewer people going into trades, the cost of skilled labor in the future will be very high. People will be able to name their prices,” said thedrinkmonster
Being loyal to your company will pay off.
“I hate the loyalty crap. Work your [expletive] off for years and a raise is never in the budget. You prove yourself a reliable, competent employee, and when a position opens up, they’ll hire out instead of cross-train. The moment things look bleak, you’ll get laid off because you’re not the manager’s best friend’s brother-in-law’s son, despite having more experience and taking a fraction of the sick/vacation time,” said Juggernath
Always check your Halloween candy.
badwolfmommy said the biggest lie was that they were always told that they should check their Halloween candy because people will put drugs in there. But, drugs are expensive and no one is giving them away for free—definitely not.
You have to do math in your head because you’ll never have a calculator around.
“You have to be able to do long multiplication and division all the time, and it’s not like you’re always going to be walking around with a calculator in your pocket.
Sure, it’s great if you have the sort of mind that loves numbers and easily understands maths, but it’s nowhere near as necessary as we were led to believe,” said emmak26.
Student loans are normal.
Many shared that the myth that student loans are normal and won’t hurt you or ruin your life down the road is such a hurtful lie. Many of us millennials are now in thousands upon thousands of dollars in debt and no way to pay it all off.
Girls don’t poop or fart.
“My mom told me from a young age that girls don’t poop or fart, and thus, I was absolutely terrified to do either in public even if I desperately needed to. It doesn’t sound so bad until you realize that it caused such anxiety that I became constipated and couldn’t poop, so it just started building up inside me, causing me to vomit after meals and go to the ER,” said rnaxbemis
That you can graduate college, get married, have kids, and own a home by 25.
“I’m 26 and just got engaged, only now getting a career in my field, and I’m still living at my parents after living away for like a year. Everything’s just so damn expensive and there’s just no money to be found. I can’t imagine raising kids yet,” said lemonylol
The ice cream man runs out of ice cream.
spotteddick had parents. who were sick and tired of their kids having ice cream, because they said if the ice cream man plays his music, that means that he is totally out of ice cream.
That plastics are recyclable.
“The biggest lie of my lifetime was that all plastic is recyclable. It isn’t and it hasn’t been. Decades’ worth of plastic that I thought was being recycled was actually being shipped overseas to be buried or burned,” said kumamori137
Romantic relationships define our happiness.
silencesilence said that they were brought up thinking that romantic relationships define you and your happiness.
Turns out, you don’t need to be in a relationship to be happy with your life and yourself.
If you swallow gum, a gum tree stays in your stomach for life.
driubbq shared that if you swallow chewing gum/bubble gum, it’ll stay in your stomach for life—turning into a sticky, growing bubble gum tree and never leave. Definitely not true, but still, don’t swallow gum.
