If you hate your job you just have to suck it up and make the best of it. Don't complain because you'll be pegged as a troublemaker, and if you quit you'll be seen as flaky and nobody else will hire you. This nugget has caused more damage to my physical and emotional well being than anything else. You really don't want to hear their views on staying in an unhappy, dysfunctional marriage (they're similar).

That cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis. Not true at all.

Girls take care of babies and kids. Men don’t. Sometimes I still fall into the trap it’s so ingrained in my brain. I saw a Dad at a party taking his kid to the bathroom for a diaper change and my mind went “he shouldn’t be doing that. Where’s his wife?”. I quickly realized how dumb that was. But it’s so drilled into my head.

That I have to finish all my food which is on the plate. Whenever we would eat, at home or in the restaurant my mum would forced us to eat everything on the plate.

That women can’t curse or be impolite in the very slightest.

Catholic guilt. The world's problems are not my fault.

A man is never going to like me if I have a PHD. Men don’t like women who are smarter than them.

Indian food is disgusting. Just had it yesterday for the first time at the age of 27. Maybe the best meal I have ever had.

That vaccines are bad.

You are supposed to accept abuse from anyone in a superior position to yours : parent, manager … If you don’t then you are a troublemaker and a shame to the family because you rebel. You will never get anywhere in life and end up alone. Be submissive. You are a woman, that’s enough of a sin already.

A whole bunch of misogyny from both parents, but mostly from mum. The highlights include being told not to play certain musical instruments, not to go into certain professions (only boys can be doctors. You can be a nurse instead), not to whistle as my future husband wouldn’t like it (I was five), not to say ‘I love you’ to other girls (again, five) and the good old lock/key analogy when I was old enough to question why only girls were sl*ts and not boys.

This is so dumb but just happened last week. I got out of the shower & grabbed a towel & started to dry my hair with it while I stood there cold & dripping wet. I had a flashback to when I was like 10 or something & asked my mom if I could use 2 towels, one to dry/wrap around my hair & the other to dry my body - like all the ladies do on TV. She said no, of course because " something something wasting towels because I said so blah blah blah" . I suddenly realized I'm an adult & this is my bathroom & my towels & I make my own rules. So for the 1st time in my 55 year old life I used TWO towels & it was was wonderful!

Going to church every Sunday or high holiday makes you a good person. It does not.

That I had to take care of everyone else and make sure they were happy before I could be happy.

My father used to make me wash my hands after greeting/handshaking with my uncle (who is homossexual), like you could "acquire gay through touching". My uncle is a respected surgeon dentist. I know I was just a child following what my parent was asking me to do, but I still feel a deep remorse to this day for doing something so homophobic and pointless.

If you work hard and go to college you'll get a great job. What a load of utter nonsense. The first job I had in my industry stressed me out so bad I left entirely.

That children aren't allowed to show emotions when they're upset at their parents. Doubly so when they're getting chewed out.

‘Be a man’ ‘boys don’t cry’ ‘men don’t b*tch’ It doesn’t make anyone manlier, it just makes someone repress their feelings and become emotionally incompetent. Teach kids honesty, and encourage them to say what they think. Also lowers the chances they’ll take their repression out on people, or start punching walls instead of verbalising their needs

You catch colds simply by being exposed to cold. For some reason I just never questioned the idea that temperature itself caused viruses, but it's such a ridiculous notion once you think about it

That as a girl, I should never be the one to reach out to the guy first, he must be the one to make the effort first. (Ex: if I want to hangout with a boy I like or even simply text him, I need to wait for him to text me or reach out to me first) it really messed up how I talk to guys I’m attracted too, because I’m 23 years old so I can do what I want when it comes to guys but I sometimes still have this mindset. The crazy thing is now my parents wonder why we don’t even reach out to any guys we are interested in lol

Putting your hair in a ponytail is lazy. Absurd!

That long hair and tattoos means you're a problem to society.

That I need to maintain a positive relationship with people who don't like me. My parents taught me to be on everyone's good side no matter the cost. In college, we had a serious rift in the friend group. They said that they had hated me all along and only hung out because I'd buy them things. Using my parents advice, I put too much energy into trying to "fix" those who I thought would change their hearts. Now that I'm older, I've realized that trying to fix people who don't care for you is manipulation and it's healthy to be selective about who you associate with.

Hair grows back faster/thicker after you shave it for the first time.

That growing facial hairs make you a thief, drug addicted and a failure to society. Still wonder how does that even make sense to this day.

That you are lazy if you watch TV during the day

You have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you go back in the pool, otherwise you'll get cramps and drown.

Alcohol is fine but I should NEVER smoke marijuana.

That women hate sex. It's at the core of my beliefs and I have to keep this false thought in check constantly. It is funny and annoying since observable reality, including personal experience and an Earth with ~8 billion people, conclusively shows the opposite.