When I was about 3 or 4 I used the word 'adult' for the first time. Shortly thereafter my dad called me into his room. He said I was in trouble. When I asked what I had done he replied "You know what you did". I was then sent to my room to think about what I had done. The only thing I could reason was that 'adult' was a bad word. I refused to say the word 'adult' until about the 4th grade when another kid said 'adult' in front of a teacher and the principal. When he didn't get in trouble I then did a few experiments. I said "Adult" around some kids who would laugh at bad words. They didn't laugh. I then said "adult" in the coah's hearing and he didn't respond. I have still to figure out why my dad got mad at me that day when I was 3 or 4.
Gruntie
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that killer bees would take over the world by the time I was an adult.— Kristy O.
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- when I was about six I remember asking an Adult what Mary did before she was a statue....Anon
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- I used to think you had to be an adult to drink household chemicalsAnon
- My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.Anon