Poll: did you ever believe in Santa?

[JoJo]

I don't think I ever believed in Santa. I think I always had the critical thinking skills to realize it was silly.

I very much doubt that is true, small children are hard-wired to believe pretty much anything their parents or other adults in authority tell them. You may not remember it now but you certainly would have been a believer if you were told so.

OT: Unless your parents never pretended that Santa was real, then anyone who clicked "no" is lying!

 

[badgersprite]

Not really, no. Maybe when I was really young, too young to remember. Then again I never really believed in Jesus or God either, so what can you do?

 

[Evilsanta]

I am quite sure i did. I just can't remember when i stopped belivieng.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Yep. I starting questioning it when I was about 7.

See, my brother once got me a "tooth box" (it was a crappy jewelry box sold at a school bazaar that he gave to me for Christmas). I was supposed to put my tooth in it for the tooth fairy to switch for money. You know how it goes.

One night, after losing a tooth, I wake up to find my dad trying to cram a dollar into the tooth box. I asked him what he was doing, and he said I was dreaming and told me to go back to sleep. I obviously realized that I wasn't dreaming, and that the tooth fairy was fake. Soon after, I started questioning what was real and what wasn't. I pretty much figured it out two years before my parents told me.

 

[thirion1850]

I was always too smart for my own good.

 

[TailsRodrigez]

Asking if someone believed in Santa is the same as asking if their parents told them Santa was real. Unless their parents told them from the start Santa was fake (if they were taught about him at all), at some point in their life they believed he was real.