When I was 15 years old, I mention the word "pussy" and there was teenage women accusing me of saying a bad word then I was put to detention for the whole day. Because I thought that "pussy" meant cat, I first heard that word from a James Bond movie, Goldfinger and Octopussy.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I used to believe everything starting with f was a bad word after I learned about the "f-word". — Sarah