When I was in preschool, we were taught that "stupid" and "shut up" were the absolute worst things anyone could possibly say. Worse than any swear words. I, being an antisocial little brat, often found a need to use "stupid" in particular. It got me in trouble until I switched to saying, "You are so stu...bborn." I figured I'd just made up the word "stubborn" (which I technically did, because I'd never heard anyone else say it), and thought no one else knew what it meant.
I completely freaked out when I saw a book with the exact title "You are so stubborn" in a store.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that “shut up” was a swear word.Anon
- 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 an imbecile was some type of seal, before knowing that it meant someone stupid.Anon
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat