My immigrant family tended not to interact very much with neighbors, so I seldom played with kids outside the family. So I thought that the people in my family were the only people in the whold world who knew any "bad words." I couldn't imagine that anyone else knew them, much less would say them.
You can't imagine my shock when I got to college and was living in a dorm with others my age. They knew the very same bad words! And what's more, they actually said them out loud. I couldn't figure out how they had learned them on their own.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- I used to believe that my immediate family were the only people in the world that farted— Rainbow
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.— sneakydean
- I used to believe that all famous people knew each other.— Liz