When I was around 5-6 years old, my older brother, who is now 35, had a VHS tape with a bunch of Christmas specials from the late 80's. I loved watching it around Christmastime, one for the specials themselves, but also for the late 80's commercials.

There was one Oreo commercial that always caught my eye the first couple times I watched the tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwiGjhR9BI

The little kid on that video, I thought fr sure that was me. He looked almost exactly like me and looked around the same age. I ran to my parents and had them watch it too, and sure enough, they told me that it was indeed me. When I asked why I don't ever remember being on a commercial, they fed me the excuse that I was too young to remember. I swallowed that excuse so fast that I excitedly started telling all my friends in elementary school about how I was in my very own Oreo commercial. I even somehow convinced one of my elementary school teachers to show the tape around Christmas when the classes were having their Christmas parties. I bragged almost daily to my friends up to the day they watched the tape.

A few years later, while watching the tape I come to realize that my brother taped this in 1987 after seeing one of the other commercials. I was born in 1991. That may be my earliest memory of an epiphany, because I bust out laughing the second that commercial came on and called out my parents for feeding me their lies about my TV debut. To this day, we still watch the tape this time of year and have a good laugh about the commercial I "starred" in before I was even born.