The most disappointing thing you learned as a kid?

[TheNaut131]

When I learned that you couldn't get an education in the field of "Inventors". I really, really, wanted to be an inventor like Gyro Gearloose when I grew up. So instead I'm studying physics. Close enough.

This pretty much. Except I was fueled by Dexter's Laboratory, Jimmy Neutron, The Kid's Next Door, and pretty much every tech-savy character in a show ever. Since I can't full out be an inventor, I figured I start focusing on engineering.

OT: Well, I was dissapointed by a lot of things in life.

Being smart and trying to focus on things makes you a bad person for some reason

People will bother you for stupid fucking reasons and can go fuck themselves

Helping people doesn't really mean anything in the long run

Space is farther away than it looks

life is pointless

and...well, now I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

When I learned how babies were created...
My parents were drunk at the time too...

 

[DeadXV]

Mine was in grade 3, when i was walking to the front gate of my school. While day dreaming, I wasnt paying attention and my foot left the path and went into a small ditch (nothing harmful happened). For some reason the sudden shock of falling (even into a ditch no deeper than 2 inches) made me realise that life was not a game and that if i screwed up, i couldnt just load up my last save and try again.

Unfortunatly i forgot it soon after, then went on to fail all of school.

 

[hurfdurp]

That I would have to get up early nearly everyday and go to school for a decent chunk of my life. So much wasted time ;_;.

 

[Aphex Demon]

The sudden realization that when I fucked up my grades at school, it does effect your life, and I should have listened to my parents and concentrated at school, I wasn't even a bad kid.

 

[thedevilscousin]

When Futurama was canceled, and when i found out how crushingly cruel the world can be.

 

[SovietPanda]

for those of you saying you found out that finding out that flunking school would be such a big deal, become a chef... tis what i did xD

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

When I found out all living things die.

Except (in theory) the immortal jellyfish. Not making it up, go look it up. Could theoretically live until the seas go dry.

Ok, it'll die eventually - it is inevitable, but it could have a damned long run.

OT: That if you are intelligant at school, you are obviously a 'boff' and should be socially spurned... good thing i wasn't trying to make friends anyway.

 

[Robert Ewing]

That being an asshole gets you places, sex, what you want, and what other people want. While being nice gets you to manage thousands of needy 'friendships' that will depend and leech off you for the rest of your life until you have no money, independence, or dignity.