Once, I was playing a video game and at the end, one of the other characters said "That was pathetic!," referring to my lack of effort.
i never heard the word before, so I thought "pathetic" meant "wicked good."
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- 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 10, I thought that nausea was called Lack-O-Candy Disease. My mom made it up— Teddybearhaha
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen