When I was 6, I heard my mom say pitiful, so I snuck under the kitchen table when nobody was looking and whisper "pitiful, pitiful, pitiful,"to myself because I thought a noughty word!!!
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- when i first heard the name "blow job",i thought the meaning of that word was blowing a snot out of your nose.— myuka
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.— Tara