einlander,

I graduated in 2003. My DARE teachers basically taught drug abstinence and telling an adult about people offering you drugs. The really didn’t talk about gateway drugs and what it does to your brain. This was in Illinois.

MiraLazine,

You’re not the first person to mention some regional differences. Think this is opening up a bigger research project of year graduated to region!

unwillingsomnambulist,

I graduated a few years before you, also in Illinois, and can confirm that.

I can also confirm that I have not resisted the devil’s lettuce.

bdonvr,

I graduated in 2017, they definitely did for me in elementary school.

shalafi,

Class of '89 here, that was pretty spot on.

Cylusthevirus,
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I literally had creationist bullshit in my text books, so I'm thinking this site won't cover everything...

MiraLazine,

I strongly debated on including school based myths, but wasn’t sure how to go about researching. I’ll do some digging and see if I can’t make an update

KittenBiscuits,

Southern schooled in 80s & 90s, here. They let us believe John Wilkes Booth was a lone actor and not part of an organized plot by southern men to assassinate the president.

The first time one of my northern friends mentioned that bit about a conspiracy, my little naive mind was rocked that schools might bend or bury the truth.

The rest of the list was pretty accurate. Except nurses in schools was a Hollywood myth to me. There was no budget for such positions. We could go to the school office and ask to call our parents if we weren’t feeling well, and we’d better be feeling pretty awful.

nocturne213,

I was schooled around the same time in NM, and was also taught Boothe acted alone.

BallShapedMan,
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We no longer say “committed suicide” because it’s no longer a crime.

Otherwise it’s great!

Kolanaki,
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Huh… And here I thought people said “unalived yourself” because of internet censorship. 🤔

Blamemeta,

Eh, you can commit a lot of acts that aren’t crimes. Like committing something to memory. Or being commited to an mental hospital.

BallShapedMan,
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I’m no expert, just sharing what I’ve learned in the few suicide prevention classes I’ve taken. Here is more if you’re interested.

www.henryford.com/mimind/blog/language-matters

MiraLazine,

Hey thanks! What’s the suggested term instead? This is the first I’m hearing of the term differences so wanna fix it up

nocturne213,

When talking about my son, I say took their life, or died by suicide. The phrase committed suicide diminishes the loss/act/cry for help by criminalizing it.

Alternately my best friend I say lost his battle with depression. I think the current internet self censored version of unalived is acceptable as well. I for sure would not be offended if someone asked if that is how my son died anyway.

ETA: any plans to make a mobile version? I am going to go dig out my iPad so I can read the list, my old eyes cannot see everything on my phone.

MiraLazine,

I’m sorry for your loss, thanks for sharing. Made the corrections to the page.

I’ve heard the page doesn’t work on mobile phones very well, its hard for me to test since it works decently on mine but I think I know a fix I can add in a bit

Blamemeta,

Eh, you can commit a lot of acts that aren’t crimes.

BallShapedMan,
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I’m no expert, just repeating what I’ve learned in a few suicide prevention classes. Here you can read more if you’re interested.

www.henryford.com/mimind/blog/language-matters

pushECX,

Pretty cool site. I like that you’ve included sources for most of the points. I was aware of the 2000’s falsehoods, but I’m sure there are many who aren’t!

MiraLazine,

Thanks! I’m hoping to update it with some more obscure ones, but I think the fact that I had a little bit of trouble finding true myths is a good thing haha

threelonmusketeers,

You should add the Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus re-re-classification debacle. That one spans multiple decades.

such_lettuce7970,
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I graduated in the 2000's and the only falsehood from this list I remember being taught was the one about taste buds.

1800doctorb,
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Yea I feel like a lot of these came from friends or other sources, and not necessarily from school.

Spacecraft,

I have definitely been told by nurses to tilt my head back if I had a nose bleed.

such_lettuce7970,
@such_lettuce7970@kbin.social avatar

Honestly I don't recall my schools ever having a "school nurse". I assume most of the teachers were trained in first aid. I went to school in Ontario. Are school nurses an American thing?

alquicksilver,
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This is neat! Thanks for sharing :)

ForestOrca,
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Agreed! Tho' there is so much more in each decade listing that could be shared. Science and knowledge continue to move forward.

LanternEverywhere,

Site isn't working on my device.

MiraLazine,

What device are you on? I’ll try to work up a fix

LanternEverywhere,

Android. I tried a couple of browsers. When i look very closely now i see a tiny little rectangle that i can click on and it brings up the decade options

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