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Most of our parents, bless their hearts, just loved us and wanted to protect us. But they weren’t exactly loaded with the correct information or truthful statements.
1. “Your face will get stuck like that”
It’s funny how our parents were willing to lie to us and make us believe that we’d become permanently disfigured in order to control us. You just don’t get that kind of quality parenting anymore.
Our parents wanted us to be stoic like their wartime parents, and they thought that if they scared us into not behaving, we would grow up respected and become successful. I love my dumb faces though, they are who I am and have not led to any serious face problems, at least not yet. I am willing to sacrifice some respect from the community so I can do them, but who knows, maybe it's just because I don't care what people think as much as others.
2. “If you swallow chewing gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years”
Amazing, no science whatsoever backing this claim up, yet millions of us were told…
