Ask Lemmy

Yeesh. Where do I begin? Uuuhhhh...

• "Unseen life".
• Healing crystals.
• People's whole personality is based on their "Star Sign".
• "Atmospheres" and "auras", and colours related to them.
• Homeopathy.
• Science is a doctrine. Scientists are power hungry and don't want to lose their status. They spread misinformation on purpose.
• Doctors too. Especially doctors.
• Chemtrails.
• Shadowy organisations who control everything, absolutely everything, and do all the negative things to gain the power to control absolutely everything.
• "Doing your own research" to uncover super secret things that nobody knows about.
• Other, more "special" mysterious races existed on Earth. Probably aliens or something. They had "free energy" because auras or something.
• Graham Hancock knows what he's talking about.
• David Icke knows what he's talking about.

Laws protect the innocent

you are innocent until proven guilty

life gets better

people aren't that stupid

you can do more as an adult

adulting is fun

1. Cigarette butts aren't litter
2. You're supposed to leave all your garbage in your seat at the movie theatre.

I had a neon green batman T-shirt that I loved and my mum didn't (5 years old) when a bunch of our bags got stolen during a move she lied and said it was in a stolen bag then threw it away 😂

Roundup is safe

BC stands for before Christ (I guess some people still say this but I think its more religious people that do)

Democrats are evil

Humans can't destroy earth because god made that imposisble

Seeing a pattern ?

My mom told me and my sister, when we were young enough to believe it, that the Ice cream man was just a nice man who drove around playing music for people.

“We love you”.

My father REALLY enjoyed physically and emotionally us (myself and two younger siblings). The best part being that my sister was already quite messed up from her pre adoption life since she was found starving, dying of exposure and having signs of horrendous physical abuse. “Get the shoe” was my favorite game… if either of us made the mistake of a shoe that wasn’t hard enough to bruise badly, things would go much worse for us.

My mother was a cold narcissist. Well regarded biochemist who didn’t believe in western medicine and was convinced she was a psychic healer. So instead of surgery for a severe TBI at 7 with a significant swelling AND a few rounds of seizures, I was given spinach smoothies and good vibes. My head still hurts. She also had to top me on ANY success, so that helped.

She had a massive stroke in 2022 probably due to knowing better than doctors how to deal with both high blood pressure and VERY high cholesterol. Then died late last year from the flu, most likely refusing to get vaccinated as you do when you’re already in a compromised state.

I shrugged.

My father is in very poor shape, also partly due to her being in charge of his health care after two devastating tropical diseases (yellow fever then dengue), both followed by walking pneumonia. Then later two “stroke like events” that both require hospitalization.

I expect another shrug coming soon.

I don’t think I’m a monster. But having let go of my hatred for these two “parents” left me with nothing but apathy for them.

My mom told me the crust was the part of the bread with the most nutrients.

Mom told me that dragonflies would sew my mouth shut.
Was afraid of them until I was at least 6 or so...

So many.

But also a lot of truths I had to learn the hard way (and being ASD exacerbated this).

Crime does pay. Especially if you’re rich. (Wish: no it should not fucking pay)

No. You don’t have to share. Nobody makes an adult share their car with some rando who shows up to the family bbq like we make kids share their toys with some kid showing up. (No, don’t compare this to taxes, that’s shallow and devoid of nuance)

IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.

I wish that all the fictional lovely futures we’d imagined when I was a kid were real. Clean cities. Flying cars. Clean power. Space stations. Amazing medical care. The ability for everyone to choose a nice life and what to do with it. We’re getting the opposite.

Worst lie currently: “checks and balances in the US government keep anyone from getting too much control.”

There are a lot more. They’re easier to remember when confronted with them.

"You won't always have a calculator in your pocket."

Out of all the wrong things I was taught in school... A calculator is probably the least complex thing I have in my pocket at all times.

However, understanding basic math, up to algebra and trigonometry is extremely useful on a daily, if not at least weekly basis.

I grew up with a conservative father who regularly listened to Rush Limbaugh (may he never rest at all). So yeah. All of.... That.

Oddly enough I took a lot of the lies to heart. Like how the government should stay out of people's private lives, like what/how they worship and who they love, which was my gateway out of that kind of thinking. Went to college, traveled abroad, and now I'm just about as radically far left as you can get without circling back around.