I remember freely cursing with friends probably starting at 3rd grade or so. Just curious about everyone else’s experiences or if that was even a thing for some of y’all.
No idea when I started it, but I have a little anecdote about a friend. Quiet, calm girl, a bit shy, always nice to everyone, tried to avoid conflict whenever possible. She loved to watch her boyfriend play videogames but had zero interest in trying it out herself - she always just wanted to watch and said it felt like an interactive movie to her.
Me and her boyfriend were taking turns playing FF12 and you can kinda pre-program the behaviour of the characters with “gambits” - if done right, you can just waltz up to an enemy and watch your party go ham on it without the need to manually attack. Total no-brainer. He eventually gave her the controller and said it was her turn now, and that she doens’t need to worry about memorizing button inputs and the like, just walk around and have fun, it’s totally easy …
It took all of five minutes until she was cussing like a drunken sailor, totally immersed in the game, cheering on her party, insulting the monsters. One sentence in particular almost made me choke: “Ich schlag dir den Arsch voll bis du Schätze scheisst!” (we’re all German BTW) which roughly translates to something like “I’ll whoop your booty until you poop loot!” (assonance included).
They’re married now. ;)
That’s super cute. Thanks for sharing!
I would sometimes swear when I was 7. My mom cursed a lot so I picked it up young. She’s one of these people that forcibly inserts fuck into a sentence as many times as humanely possible when upset. Example "clean your fucking room right fucking now or I am fucking taking the fucking Xbox.
+/- 12 I think.
For me I was about 13-14, raised really religiously so the first time I said fuck I was sure I was gonna be struck down in the next 48 hrs.
I still don’t curse, really. I started talking about ‘inappropriate’ topics probably in around year 9 though.
No need for swearing when there are so many other instersting and underutilized words in our language to use.
Necessity isn’t (shouldn’t be) what drives profanity. Overuse of any word, swearing or otherwise, becomes dull to read or hear; but eloquence occurs when we utilize the full potential of our verbal toolbox - which occasionally means reaching for the fucking hammer!
Around the same time, 3rd or 4th grade.
Most I heard was around that + all students basically having no filter.
Kids are a bunch of vocal savages :D
Near the end of elementary school and the beginning of middle school. It also didn’t help that my parents would swear often as well. I’m glad my little brother is calling out the hypocrisy.
13, you can see the transition in the journal I kept at the time
Not sure. Definitely by 11, and probably a bit younger
8 or 9yo I think
My mother’s stance was always something like “if you’re going to swear, swear competently.” Also a bit of “recognize the appropriate time and place for swearing. Home with family? Fine. Grandparent’s church? Be nice”
If my dad had it his way I’d be saying fuck after every other word. But he did teach me some really cool ways to swear. My mother managed to put a lot of it into context for me and told me when it wasn’t right. I have always appreciated her for that
I started cursing infront of my family before I started cursing infront of friends, heh.
I do swear but do it in too much moderation anyways for my parents to care.
Definitely middle school
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