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When I was little, I definitely believed in Santa. Then I grew up and realized it was just my parents. I never even knew Saint Nick was an actual saint until years later, sadly.
 

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I think this video sums up my feelings about santa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCsIlc6yBjw

I have no idea how to embed
 

therandombear

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I was scared of Santa Clause when I was younger, so my grandpa stopped dressing as Santa. So Santa stopped appearing around when I was 5-6 me thinks.
 

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Not really... I might've said yes at the time, but I always doubted it. But that didn't stop me from getting swept away with the whimsy of Christmas and all that fun stuff.
 

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JoJoDeathunter said:
Of-course, up until I was about seven or eight. As far as I know my little sister still believes in him.

Anyone who says no in the poll is lying or mistaken unless their parents never pretended that Santa was real since younger children are programmed to pretty much unconditionally accept whatever their parents teach them, no exceptions.
So you are calling me a liar for saying no because I was able to recognize my grandfather's voice when he showed up dressed up as Santa? I never believed in god either despite being in a Christian kindergarten and my parents didn't really care about religion one way or the the other. So despite being fed Christianity I didn't accept it because it didn't make sense and neither did Santa.
I knew that Santa wasn't real, but it was a nice tradition and I liked the stories around it so I didn't complain. Christmas wasn't Christmas without Santa, yet I knew that it was fake.
 

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The majority of Escapists believed in Santa Clause.

The majority of Escapists believe Fox News is the racist, half-witted enemy of their culture.

Behold, the connection.
 

Zanaxal

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I was scared of him so no, he could just aswell been a burglar. Just one time santa was enough to never see him again haha.

But then again no one bothered explaining it .

I also found small santa dolls freakishly evil.
 

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If you didn't believe in Santa, you're parents were fucking Nazis.

I figured it out when I was about 9 or 10, was reading a Calvin and Hobbes comic book, and saw that the dad told Calvin to put out a beer for Santa with a funny look on his face.

Childhood=lies.
 

ecoho

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i beleaved whole heatly in him till i was 6 then my grandmother looked at me and said you cant honstly still beleave in santa claus.......guess who hasnt been anywere near me at christmas since?
 

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I Have No Idea said:
Given how many atheist/agnostic/non-Christians are on the site, I'm not entirely sure that I'll get a decent response, but I'm going for it anyway (I know some people who participate in Christmas anyways, regardless of religious beliefs). My input is yes, I totally ate up the Santa thing. Great part of my childhood, with so many fun memories.
My family is not religious, but we celebrate all the common holidays. however, my parents never lied to me, about anything. "where did babies come from?", "is 'blank' real?", etc. I found out the truth to everything at 2 years. I was home-schooled til 6th grade. I played TES II Daggerfall at 8 years old. watched R rated movies, and, ironically, I'm lawful good.
 

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Fat old guy sneaks into my house at night and knows when I'm asleep?...I always wondered why I'd wake up with my boxers missing! IT WAS SANTA! (Just kidding, don't take it seriously)

But personally I did always feel suspicious over the fact that I was getting handed down clothes from cousins and maybe some $20 gifts after being as good as possible all year, and yet the spoiled kids or bullies at my school would be bragging about their brand new videogames, guitars, or snowboards when we came back to school after Christmas.
 

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My mum was lazy and asked me what I wanted for xmas. Then brought it for me and said it was from santa. No hat, No nothing.
 

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I did, very much so. Until about 7 or 8. But as I had in the upcoming years 4 younger siblings to nurture their belief in Santa, I had my middle brother believing until 11.


Screwed it up with my 2nd brother as he was my little evil cohort and we would listen through the heating venting in my bedroom to my parents til the wee hours of the morning wrapping our gifts. My last two siblings until they were maybe 8. Other then the true meaning of Christmas, the very magical part of Christmas is that Santa is coming.

Sidenote: One year I even made my mom buy a calligraphy set to forge Santa letters to my sibs.
Sidenote 2: My son and I wrote his Santa letter already and gave it to the mailman, expecting a letter back from Santa next week.
 

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TheDarkEricDraven said:
JoJoDeathunter said:
Of-course, up until I was about seven or eight.
Only seven or eight? That's it? I believed until I was eleven...
I was (and still am I suppose since I study it at uni now) very interested in science as a child so around that age I was starting to question things that didn't fit in with it. The clincher was when I was still awake at night and I saw my mum bringing in the presents, she said that he had left them at the front door for me but it was too late. :-D

Yopaz said:
JoJoDeathunter said:
Of-course, up until I was about seven or eight. As far as I know my little sister still believes in him.

Anyone who says no in the poll is lying or mistaken unless their parents never pretended that Santa was real since younger children are programmed to pretty much unconditionally accept whatever their parents teach them, no exceptions.
So you are calling me a liar for saying no because I was able to recognize my grandfather's voice when he showed up dressed up as Santa? I never believed in god either despite being in a Christian kindergarten and my parents didn't really care about religion one way or the the other. So despite being fed Christianity I didn't accept it because it didn't make sense and neither did Santa.
I knew that Santa wasn't real, but it was a nice tradition and I liked the stories around it so I didn't complain. Christmas wasn't Christmas without Santa, yet I knew that it was fake.
Childhood memories are notoriously inaccurate, you probably have retrospectively applied your adult-mindset into your past and forgotten when you did believe. While I don't doubt you recognised your grandfather at that point, unless your parents never attempted to trick you, you certainly would have believed in Santa sometime before then. There's no such thing as a sceptical young child as they don't have enough experience or knowledge to judge the truthfulness of a belief against, that's well-known psychology.
 

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I can't remember that far back man, i must have figured it out pretty quick though, a man gone and another man comes and gives us presents. Not that hard.
Also depends on the quality of the costume and act at the time.