Every time I saw the word "sex" on a form, I'd show it to my friend in class and say "they wrote a bad word!" But in a couple years later, I noticed the words "Male/Female" so I guessed that it was another word for gender.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- i used to think that the word e-mail was a sex, like male, female and e-mail.
I'm so thick!— Confoozed - I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m