fburnaby comments on The Santa deception: how did it affect you? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fburnaby 21 December 2010 06:39:39PM 3 points [-]

I never told my parents I had figured it out. I had younger siblings and the tradition seemed harmless, so I just played along with it. It didn't dawn on me at the time how much coordination across all of society went into the deception, so the realization didn't really seem all that special.