I thought "gay" was a bad word when I was young for a while. I got the idea because whenever my brother and dad would laugh when I said something, and I said it to my mom, she would say it was bad. I heard the word somewhere and said it around them and they laughed, so I just assumed.
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
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- When I was little I believed that the "F word" was fart. My mom laughed at me when I told her.Anon
- 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