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When we're increasing up, everything going connected successful your household location seems wholly normal, which makes consciousness considering it's virtually each we know. But arsenic you get older, and commencement to spot however different people's families operate, it tin beryllium benignant of shocking, like, "Wait, not everyone plays indoor badminton with frying pans and their dog's ball? Huh."
1. "I thought everyone utilized woody bowling pins to commencement a occurrence successful the fireplace. My parents bought our location from a feline who owned a bowling alley. There were woody pins stacked successful the store 3 heavy and 10 feet high. Dad would nonstop america retired to drawback 1 to commencement a fire. My archetypal sleepover astatine my friend's house, her Dad said helium was going to commencement a fire, and I wanted to beryllium helpful, truthful I asked him wherever they kept their bowling pins.🤷"
3. "I thought everyone near their shoes retired for the fairies each time successful Advent. The fairies would permission sweets successful them each night."
—u/queenirv
4. "Based connected some sets of grandparents, I thought divorced couples were ever wholly estranged from each different with perfectly nary contact, ever. I was shocked erstwhile my friend’s parents got divorced, and her dada showed up astatine her mom’s location connected Halloween to accidental hullo and bent retired for a small while."
5. "We ne'er utilized the 'Big Light' (overhead ceiling light). We lived exclusively by the airy of 3 dim lamps successful the corners of the room. I went to a friend's house, and they had the ceiling airy connected astatine 8 PM connected a Tuesday. It felt similar an interrogation room."
"The overhead airy has 'you don’t person to spell home, but you can’t enactment here' vibes."
6. "I thought that radical ever got truly competitory erstwhile playing paper games. Like, seriously, fractional the amusive of the Thanksgiving paper crippled was watching my aunts curse astatine their children. Everyone enjoys themselves, but it is very, uhhh, intense. Then I went disconnected to assemblage and started playing cards with my caller friends, and determination was lone 1 different idiosyncratic who played with thing remotely adjacent to the strength I was utilized to."
—u/retief1
7. "I was confused erstwhile I went to a achromatic friend's house, and they cooked and served food with nary bones. My household is Chinese and conscionable cooks the food arsenic is — it's your occupation to prime retired the bones. My friend's household thought I was brainsick erstwhile I mentioned it."
8. "Asking everyone other successful the location if they needed to usage the bath earlier taking a shower."
—u/Jewelieta
9. "I utilized to deliberation it was wholly mean for families to person a 'midnight snack party' wherever everyone would randomly aftermath up, raid the fridge, and chat successful the room astatine similar 2 AM. It wasn't until I stayed implicit astatine a friend's location and realized their household actually, you know, slept done the nighttime that I figured retired it was conscionable my quirky household tradition."
10. "I'm Puerto Rican, and each 5 of my uncles were musicians. I would spell to different people's houses and ask, 'Where are the congas?'"
11. "I grew up reasoning it was mean for parents to slumber successful abstracted buildings, ne'er kiss, and pass astir exclusively done notes connected the bath mirror."
12. "I grew up with lone 1 acceptable of grandparents. They are profoundly deaf and usage motion language; neither of them speaks. I retrieve going to my first-ever sleepover, and my friend's grandma was there. I signed 'hello, bully to conscionable you'. She was utterly confused, arsenic was I, erstwhile the penny yet dropped that not everyone's grandparents are deaf."
—u/Rumm_Rage
13. "I genuinely thought each household had a ‘we don’t request the doctor, conscionable portion h2o and sleep’ policy. Turns out, no, that was conscionable mine."
14. "My parents were ceremonial directors who owned their ain ceremonial home/mortuary. They were precise benignant to ever springiness their employees holidays off, truthful they had to tally the concern connected those days. Therefore, we had to observe each of our peculiar occasions astatine the ceremonial home. Sometimes families would travel in, and we’d beryllium sitting astatine a array with day hats on, singing blessed day oregon opening up Christmas gifts."
15. "I thought it was mean to tally a mile unneurotic earlier starting the day. All 5 of america successful my household did each day."
16. "My household was broke, and I was 'independent' arsenic a child, truthful erstwhile they couldn’t spend for some my younger sister and maine to spell to after-school care, I was sent location by myself astatine 6 years old. I was expected to marque dinner, bash my homework, bash chores, etc. This was ne'er discussed with me, truthful I thought it was mean until a mates of years back. My friends brought up however they were ne'er near location unsocial until they were teenagers, arsenic I was joking astir about burning the location down with an lipid occurrence erstwhile I was 6 and location unsocial making dinner."
17. "One time, erstwhile I was astir 10, I offered to drawback my dada different brew since I was going to the room anyway. He told maine that getting intoxicant for adults is not the occupation of a child. Then helium followed maine inside, we each grabbed our portion of choice, and we walked backmost extracurricular together. I’m 36 now, and past year, immoderate friends were talking astir however they learned to premix their dad’s drinks by property 8 oregon whatever. It wasn’t until that speech that I realized that my dad’s effect 25 years agone wasn’t the norm. He was breaking generational curses."
18. "I thought each household yelled astatine each different similar they were warring and past acted wholly mean 5 minutes later."
19. "Apparently, not each household has that 1 uncle who conscionable shows up, eats, naps, and leaves similar an NPC."
20. "I had a large family, and we had precise strict rules astir not eating anyplace but the eating country table. When I was 18 and witnessed my boyfriend's parents eating meal connected the couch, watching TV, portion my fellow and his small sister ate their meal successful their rooms, I was mortified. I asked him, 'When bash you guys speech astir your day?' and helium laughed astatine me, reasoning I was joking."
21. "Talking to friends astir their Christmas memories increasing up and realizing not everyone remembers the 'it's YOUR responsibility we're late' statement happening each azygous Christmas Eve since birth."
22. "The 'one-a-day rule'. Whenever we had a 12-pack of soda, Capri Sun, oregon adjacent snack cakes similar Twinkies, we had a regularisation wherever you could lone person 1 a day. Going to others' houses and seeing them person 2 sodas astatine a clip oregon 3 Twinkies alternatively of a repast was mind-blowing to me."
23. "My household was large into church, and tons of america were successful the choir. When we each got unneurotic astatine Grandma's, we would often sing. Maybe astatine a religion work oregon conscionable listening to euphony astatine the house, we'd ever person singing sessions. I've ne'er been astatine different location that sang arsenic a family."
—u/theboned1
24. "Not household per se, conscionable my dad. He chills successful his underwear for astir of the morning. Some days helium conscionable watches TV and drinks coffee, different days helium cleans, makes breakfast, and sings. It wasn't until aft I got married, and we were visiting my dad, that my hubby told maine I could person warned him astir it. I was confused due to the fact that I thought each dads bash that."
25. "Collecting water. My grandparents grew up poor, and the lone root of h2o was from a earthy outpouring successful the mountains. Even erstwhile things got better, and they were adjacent to being middle-class, they ne'er outgrew that habit. They taught this wont to my mother, who aboriginal taught it to me. Then I became independent, and it inactive feels weird to bargain water."
26. And finally, "My dada was a pilot, and we owned a small level that lived astatine a small airport. Until similar 3rd grade, I thought everyone had a small plane."
—u/probssocio
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