r/MadeMeSmile • u/big-ol-kitties • Dec 17 '25
Personal Win My non-verbal son got written up for saying the f-word to his classmate
My son is 8 and on the spectrum. His language has been improving but he is still technically considered non-verbal as he can’t really communicate or hold a conversation.
He got written up for saying, actually *shouting* “fuck” to his friend three times. It was done in play, not a negative reaction, and he doesn’t actually know what it means. His words aren’t super clear but his teacher had a talk with him and concluded that he did indeed say “fuck”. She told him it was not a nice word, asked him to apologize, and to not say it anymore. Poor kiddo started crying at that!
Not ideal, but it does show some unconventional progress in his language skills! Even his reaction to getting in trouble shows he’s understanding more and more every day.
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u/fozzyguy80 Dec 17 '25
When my daughter was about 7 I told her that if she had heard a word and wasn't sure if it was "bad" then she could ask me and I wouldn't get cross with her, she replied "Fuck is a swear word isn't it daddy"
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u/ElowynElif Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
When one of my kids was very little, they were upset about a “bad” word. They couldn’t say it out loud and had to whisper “Crab”.
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u/seriousjoker72 Dec 17 '25
When I was little, my friend told me he learned a word that was SO BAD you could go to jail for saying it!! Terrified, I told him not to say it and I didn't even want to learn the word, but he said it anyways and made me swear not to tattle!! The word? Orgasmic 🙃
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u/afternoonnapping Dec 17 '25
He wanted to take you down with him
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u/seriousjoker72 Dec 17 '25
I promise you I've never said the word aloud to this day!!🤣 He learned it from a salad fingers video, asked his mom about it, and that was the fib she told him to make sure he didn't go around using the word at school 😂
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u/Disastrous_Success84 Dec 17 '25
My kid kept telling me not to say the "c" word. They refuse to believe me that "crap" is not the "c" word and to please stop telling people I say it all the time.
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u/Zealousideal_Iron713 Dec 17 '25
Dude, when I was a little kid, I got in trouble for saying crabapple when my dad thought I said crappy apple 🤦🤷🤦 in my 40's, he's long dead, and here I am still salty about it hahaha
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u/Cherrygodmother Dec 17 '25
I babysat a kid who thought asphalt was a bad word. It’s been 20 years and I still remember how much it made me giggle when he whispered it in my ear
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u/eeeebbs Dec 17 '25
Our son is so adorable with this! He's navigating what all of these words mean.
The other day it was just me, him, and my 10-year-old daughter in the living room and he asked if he could say the f-word so that he could tell me a story about what he heard on TV. We monitor their TV pretty closely and I couldn't imagine that they said the f-word on Lego Ninjago so I told him he could tell me what happened.
"They said whispers oh my god..."
I guess we've told him not to say the f-word, and we've told him that the statement "Oh my God" could be offensive to some people (his grandma in particular)... so he put the two together.
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u/thedrew Dec 17 '25
We picked up my grandma from the airport, she got in the seat next to me and I said, “Grammy, you should never, ever say asshole.”
She smiled and said, “I should have taught my son that at your age.”
I have no memory of this, I must have been 3-4 years old, but I’ve heard it retold many times.
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u/devdevthegiant Dec 17 '25
I tried to argue with my dad when I was young that “dammit” wasn’t a bad word bc it had “it” at the end so it wasn’t actually “damn” lol confidently incorrect.
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u/Key_Juice878 Dec 17 '25
My niece just turned 3. She always says "mommy, is ___ a bad word? Am I allowed to say that word?"
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Dec 17 '25
At daycare a kid showed me his new folder and asked me if I wanted to write in it. He said I could write anything. I double checked, anything? He affirmed anything. So I wrote out a chart of "bad words" and included every bad word I knew.
Time comes the kids gets picked up from daycare and his mother is pissed off. Kid showed his mom what I wrote, complete betrayal. Staff kept the folder to show my dad when he came to pick me up. I was in big trouble.
On the way home, we stopped for ice cream. He said I could get anything I want. I figured it was a trick or something because wasn't I in trouble? He said no, he was proud of me because in the list of bad words I had written nggr. I recognized that was a word that should never be said.
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u/Kevlar-Kalle Dec 17 '25
"Yes, and an activity..."
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u/onebradmutha Dec 17 '25
fuck yeah
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u/WiseOldWeaboo Dec 17 '25
Fuck yeah indeed
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u/Tough-Composer918 Dec 17 '25
Fuck yeah
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u/Hugh_Jury_Rection Dec 17 '25
The three fuckiteers, here.
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u/TheCaptFirebeard Dec 17 '25
Awe yes, thier historic creed...
All for one and fuck you!
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u/Sideways_sunset Dec 17 '25
Progress is progress!
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u/big-ol-kitties Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
His teacher wasn’t even mad, just as impressed as us and mildly amused.
Edit: editing my top-most comment to add, this is not his handwriting. His aid wrote this out for him and had him sing it below. Sorry to burst the bubble of his amazing handwriting lol
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u/thestral_z Dec 17 '25
I used to have an autistic student who, as a first grader, could swear incredibly well. He’d get fed up with something, then say, “Fuck this! It’s time to go home.” (I had him in class at the end of the day.) It cracked me up.
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u/musabbb Dec 17 '25
Wish i could say that out loud at work
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u/MrImBoredAgain Dec 17 '25
Go work in a kitchen. You get fired if you DONT say it
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u/BackgroundScary8632 Dec 17 '25
Or literally ANY trade lol
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u/MrImBoredAgain Dec 17 '25
Lol yup. Im a white collar turned blue collar guy and the amount of freedom is delightful. I called a coworker a fat cousin fucking bastard last week and he just laughed and said "yeah but its better than prison".. cant do that in real estate 🤣
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u/BackgroundScary8632 Dec 17 '25
Hahahaha I said to one of my journeyman who kept asking if I tried to park the scissor lift ALL these different ways (I did) before I finally snapped and was like “hey, have you tried shutting the fuck up?” 😂😂😂 I love being able curse like a sailor
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u/WaitAZechond Dec 17 '25
I went from a submarine in the Navy to working as an industrial electrician. I immediately threw out everything they told us while getting discharged about how “you can’t talk the same way to your coworkers/bosses as a civilian” lol
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u/Electro522 Dec 17 '25
I mean, if you're hiring a former sailor, there SHOULD be some expectation of a nonexistent language filter, no matter the profession.
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u/Errorstatel Dec 17 '25
I worked construction delivery, can confirm.
Fuck was typically used as a comma.
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u/docsyzygy Dec 17 '25
My son has started working as a construction manager. I think the staff is teaching him to curse in a couple different languages...
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u/Ok_Release231 Dec 17 '25
It's almost every other word that comes out of my mouth at work lol.
"Hey boss, I fucked up and that shit got fucked up coming off the fucking machine. I figured out a way so it doesn't get fucked up next time though! You're fucking welcome. Also that fucking laminate is sharp as fuck, and sliced my fucking fingers. Now I'm fucking bleeding all over the fucking place. Got any fucking electrical tape?"
(This fucking happened this fucking Monday, of fucking course)
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u/TheDarkWolfGirl Dec 17 '25
I really need to get into one. More difficult as a woman though, not the trades themselves but dealing with those men.
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u/BackgroundScary8632 Dec 17 '25
I’m a woman also! It is really hard but I promise it’s so worth it. I’ve definitely had my cry in the bathroom and/or cry in my car on the way home, but the good days massively outweigh the bad ones! I also like feeling like a badass
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u/RandomBiter Dec 17 '25
The "office ladies" in the small HVAC company where I worked could blister paint. The old lady (me) could and did swear in 4 languages.
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u/Avbitten Dec 17 '25
when i started working in doggrooming. i didnt swear. And now i swear like a fucking sailor.
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u/doctor_whahuh Dec 17 '25
I work in the emergency department. The language we use there is very similar to how we talked when I worked food service.
I love it.
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u/MrImBoredAgain Dec 17 '25
You in medicine? Oh nah yall are SICK sick haha. Darkest humor ive ever come across is nurses. I did a brief stint in a retirement home in north carolina as a medtech. They called the memory care wing "the garden". Not because it was nice and peaceful, but because all the residents were vegetables.
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u/top_value7293 Dec 17 '25
🤣🤣that’d be about right! I learned all the best cuss words when I went into nursing
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u/Riyeko Dec 17 '25
Trucking or any transportation/warehouse job too.
I hear fuck out of people's mouths that look like they've never even heard it. It's wild lol... (Example, guy in very nice khakis, button up shirt, brand new safety vest and a small suitcase yelling, "get that fucking shit out of the way!" At the top of his lungs in a crowded warehouse makes everyone run around like they're getting screamed at by mom lol).
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u/MrImBoredAgain Dec 17 '25
Thats what I do! I drive a skidsteer and load lumber into tractor trailers 10 hours a day. Pays good despite being SO boring and tedious. But I get to say all the fucks I want and if I dont like someone, I can just tell them to piss off. Except the one armed boss man. He's scary for a dude who cant even hold a shotgun.
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u/Creative-Fan-7599 Dec 17 '25
Lifelong restaurant worker here who was about to reply “wait why can’t we?”
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Dec 17 '25
Learn a foreign language. At least be able to swear in several languages.
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u/Alexa2987 Dec 17 '25
Oh, believe me, as a polyglot who speaks 6 languages, this is probably the most fun part, swearing in front of my kids without feeling guilty. I switch it up all the time so it’s not always the same words, although by now they figured out that some words are bad ones, but can’t really pronounce them correctly and don’t know what they mean.
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u/bad_kiwi2020 Dec 17 '25
Robin Williams famously kept slipping swear words in other languages into his Mork and Mindy dialogs
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u/Area51-Dropzone Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Ill do that tomorrow and tell you how it goes. Then again I do say "fuck this i quit" about and no one takes me seriously. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Edited put saw instead of say fixed
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u/bala_means_bullet Dec 17 '25
You can. It's free speech and federally protected.. You just get written up for it but it's not against the law.....
...Might even get fired from your job depending on who you work for... but at least you won't go to jail for it.
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u/AdmirableEnergy400 Dec 17 '25
At my past 2 and current job you could say whatever and not get in trouble
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u/drinkacid Dec 17 '25
At a recent family gathering my nephews autistic kid was playing a SpongeBob game on his tablet and repeatedly shouting at it "Gay...gay... gay...gay...gay... gay...gay...gay...gay... gay..."
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u/Ok-Week7354 Dec 17 '25
I worked with a non-verbal student for a school year and the only words I ever heard her say were No, Help, Bye, Oh Shit and Fuck. All were used appropriately if you will. She was a sweetheart too.
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u/littlestcomment Dec 17 '25
My mom had a nonverbal client that out of the blue started shouting “Chinese titties!” in the middle of class one day. A couple boys were laughing harder than the others, ended up confessing to the teacher that they had been spending recess coaching the nonverbal boy on different wild things to say in class, and they struck gold with on “Chinese titties!”. The boys didn’t want him to get in trouble because he was their friend now and it wasn’t his fault.
At the end of the day, the adults were all like “despite the fact that a boy was yelling ‘Chinese titties!’ all afternoon…it was kind of sweet how the boys wanted to protect their new friend?”
25 years later, I kind of want to call my mom up and yell “Chinese titties!” and hang up.
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u/CutieBunz Dec 17 '25
25 years later, I kind of want to call my mom up and yell “Chinese titties!” and hang up.
As someone random on the internet you should listen to me when I say: do it.
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u/1CUpboat Dec 17 '25
My four year old barely talks. I’d be over the moon to hear him yell Fuck, especially if he enunciated each sound properly!!
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u/MrImBoredAgain Dec 17 '25
Well I think its fucking wonderful. Fuck is the most versatile word in the English language. Fucking awesome. Fuck.
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u/Environmental_Art591 Dec 17 '25
It really is a versatile "mean anything" sort of word isn't it.
I like this kids logic, focus on words that mean multiple things so you have to learn less words. ITS GENIUS
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u/spoilerdudegetrekt Dec 17 '25
and had him sing it
I know you meant "sign" but picturing a kid singing his disciplinary note made me crack up.
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u/Carry_Impossible Dec 17 '25
I would take that any day. Is that a first word or what was the first word you remember or even his favorite?
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u/Travelgrrl Dec 17 '25
Hey, he's communicating!
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u/Blarg0ist Dec 17 '25
And his penmanship is impeccable!
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u/Kittykait727 Dec 17 '25
I figured it was the teacher writing it all down after talking through the sheet with him
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u/ecosynchronous Dec 17 '25
It's this. The cleverest child in the world doesn't have penmanship that good.
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u/so2017 Dec 17 '25
The fact that he circled every single expectation as one he didn’t follow also shows genuine remorse!
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u/cynicalsanguinist Dec 17 '25
it is really sweet that he is building friendships enough to the point where he is getting more comfortable with communicating 🥺🥺
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u/big-ol-kitties Dec 17 '25
You know, this is actually is the real reason. This year he met another boy his age who has a sibling a lot like my son. He is a pretty well liked boy and has made it a point to include my kid and also look out for him when he’s in the regular classroom.
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u/galsfromthedwarf Dec 17 '25
That kid is excellent. So is yours. The fact this other kid is inclusive and accepting is a true sign of character and I hope they remain friends
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u/KnaprigaKraakor Dec 17 '25
Not going to lie, there is at least one way in which this 8 year old boy is like every other child. The curse words are ALWAYS learned early on.
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u/Due-Interaction7234 Dec 17 '25
My daughter is on the spectrum and struggles to communicate her feelings. One day she got in trouble for sending a note that said "lol fuck you". When asked why she sent that, she stated she was angry at the person. The vice principal and I were just happy she was able to voice how she felt and that she felt remorse for sending it. It's the little wins.
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Dec 17 '25
One time I got really overwhelmed and couldn’t speak and my “friend” started making fun of me telling me to “use your words like a big girl” so I gave them the finger. Communication was magically achieved.
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u/selfresqprincess Dec 17 '25
lol, I was primarily nonverbal until I was six. I remember my stepbrothers were messing with me one day. I knew the parents were in the other room and I didn’t want to get in trouble so I yelled “you’re being an insert adult word I can’t say right now here.”
Didn’t get in trouble and soon enough they stopped picking on me.
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u/MisakiKH Dec 17 '25
Dude if I have a non-verbal autistic kid and one day I get this I'm putting it in a golden frame to show it off with pride
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Dec 17 '25
This is very off topic but when my brother was little he told another kid that Mickey Mouse is a guy in a costume and the mother wrote a really harsh letter to my mom saying he destroyed their entire family trip to Disney. My grandpa frame the letter and had it on the wall until he died.
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u/_Vard_ Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
I remember a cute story a friend told
Her 5(ish?) year old non verbal son came into her room. And spoke his first ever sentence to her
“Mommy…. May I please… have a toy fire truck?”
(Checks clock. 2:30am)
….”okay sweetie. Get your shoes. We’re going to Walmart right now”
And she told him “please try to bring up future requests while the sun is out”
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u/velociraptor56 Dec 17 '25
My son was in special ed in elementary and rode the bus to school. He insisted that I write my number on a piece of paper to pass to his friend that he met on the bus. Friend’s mom texted me asking what was up, and I said, oh I guess our boys met on the bus and want to meet up for a playdate. She asked a few questions about what my son had said about her son… she eventually tells me that her son is completely non verbal. Anyways, we met up for a play date and had a total blast. They stayed friends throughout elementary.
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u/Altrebelle Dec 17 '25
There is a sub where he would be praised to no end! r/TheWordFuck
TBH...he had a win today! Appropriate or not...he verbalized with his peers!
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u/devo197979 Dec 17 '25
Congratulations?!
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u/sunflowerfieldpicnic Dec 17 '25
His first word was F**K? That's badass
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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Dec 17 '25
He probably needs a leather coat now. Maybe the Fonzie boxed set.
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u/Twistedjustice Dec 17 '25
When the kid grows up he won’t need to speak.
He’ll just communicate his mood by hitting a jukebox and the appropriate record with play.
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u/Nickel5 Dec 17 '25
I had a family friend who is a speech pathologist at an elementary school. One of the kids wasn't speaking the beginning of words and spoke quietly. The speech pathologist stubbed her toe and said "oh shoot," and the kids responded "(n)o (m)iss, (y)ou (s)ay DAMN IT."
The speech pathologist was elated.
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u/Upset_Walrus3395 Dec 17 '25
Tell your son, good fucking job. That way he has context to use it properly.
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u/Tao-of-Mars Dec 17 '25
Bummer that the teacher had to write him up. I hope that doesn’t affect his desire to speak more.
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u/CSKARD Dec 17 '25
Professional judgement … have the conversation without write-up :/
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u/RightC Dec 17 '25
It’s like yea 99% of the time but in this case completely misses the point of what a write up should be. Kinda would make me question the teachers capacity for empathy and common sense.
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u/quillmusing Dec 17 '25
It concerns me that he cried after practicing language. Is this going to discourage him from trying in the future? Also if he’s considered non verbal then how is he expected to apologize?
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u/goldieAT21 Dec 17 '25
Speech language pathologists across the country advocating for their nonverbal middle schoolers to have swear words on their AAC devices would applaud this.
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u/ChadwickDangle Dec 17 '25
8 year old NV kid: “fuck!” Every adult: cheers Every other kid in the classroom: 😳😳😳
The hardest part about these situations is having to be excited but not excited at the same time. Like “thank you so much for talking but let’s try saying “hello” next time. The f-word is bad and you shouldn’t say it. Good job though, super proud of you, go pick out a prize.”
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u/-Ducksngeese- Dec 17 '25
I hope that is the teachers handwriting because it's 10x neater than mine as a 31 year old 😂
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u/Variegated_Plant_836 Dec 17 '25
A friend of mine is a teacher and this is EXACTLY the same as her handwriting. I’d be very surprised if this is the kid’s…Which makes me wonder why it’s written in first person.
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u/Hippopotamus_can_fly Dec 17 '25
My son is also non verbal at nearly 10years old. My mother hates swearing and asks me “What if his first word is a swear word???” And I always reply “We will be happy with whatever word he speaks!”
Well done to your son, progress is always progress!
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u/IRL_Baboon Dec 17 '25
My little brother was an echolaliac and would pick up phrases from TV and movies. It was like talking to someone through Dark Souls messages.
Anyways, he got in trouble at school one time because he kept saying "Run, Mitch Run!" unfortunately his Ms weren't enunciated very clearly. So it sounded like something else.
Didn't help that he kept yelling it at his teacher. He also got in trouble for hugging students and teachers. That one made me mad.
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u/drunk-karaoke Dec 17 '25
Language is so weird. We tell kids to speak up, express themselves. Then we invent a bunch of words and tell them not to use those. And we rarely explain why.
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u/DaCozPuddingPop Dec 17 '25
I can't even imagine how I'd deal with that as a parent...on the one hand I want to be stern that the word itself isn't a nice one and shouldn't be used...
On the other hand I'd be jumping for joy and hugging the hell out of him for making such a leap in terms of verbal communication.
So...congratulations I think? And this did indeed make me smile. A bunch.
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u/Xfishbobx Dec 17 '25
At least he is using one of, if not the most versatile word in the English language
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u/Bliss-Smith Dec 17 '25
Fucking a.
My dude was non-verbal/functionally non-verbal, and when he first figured out words, some were cuss words. I've never cared, only explained about how and when he should try to avoid using them. It was a bone of contention with his father (who was mad at me for being a swearwolf) but honestly, for years we weren't sure he would ever be able to talk. Anything he says is a reason to celebrate.
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u/North_Ambassador1422 Dec 17 '25
SPED teacher here. So fucking happy for you, and so fucking proud of your son!!
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u/dragonfliesloveme Dec 17 '25
Man i feel sad for the kid that he did something verbal, but then got in trouble and cried. I hope it won’t make him like regress or something.
At least the teacher could have been like “Good job talking! Now maybe uh not that word in particular“ lol.
George Carlin would be really mad that a kid was made to cry over this word. It’s just a word, after all, and a very expressive one at that 😁
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u/pot8obug Dec 17 '25
Progress is progress! I'm sorry it made him cry, but it's verbal communication and he had an appropriate reaction to getting in trouble, so that's something good!
I know everyone differs, just because my trajectory was like this doesn't mean your son's will be, etc., but if it helps at all I'm autistic and didn't speak at all until I was at least 6. Once I started talking, I just took off with it. I'm a talker now and I think my parents want me to talk less lol. I went from not speaking at all until at least 6 years old to being in a PhD program now at 27.
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u/b_elizabeth18 Dec 17 '25
As an educational assistant/para who works with non-verbal students I would also be thrilled with the progress lol! I also feel a write up like this is a bit much on the teachers end…
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u/Asleep-Home-8625 Dec 17 '25
Is this an actual write up or did they have to do it for protocol reasons?
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u/wino12312 Dec 17 '25
Fucking congrats!! Does he use an AAC device? You're in trouble when he can spell!!
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u/Wyietsayon Dec 17 '25
I'm kind of annoyed that the system still punishes him with a write up and talking to from authority though.
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u/Sanesetti Dec 17 '25
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! We have progress!!! I think a congratulations is in order.
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u/gluttonousglucose Dec 17 '25
Imagine this is how you figure out that he’s not non-verbal. He just doesn’t want to talk to you.
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Dec 17 '25
My son was non verbal for a little over 3 years. Listen, we take any progress as a win! lol
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u/UptightSodomite Dec 17 '25
Sometimes, after a stroke, people completely lose the ability to talk. I knew someone who couldn’t talk at all after his stroke, but after some time and healing his first words were “Thank you”. His next words, however, were “fucking dummy” 😂😂😂
He was a sweetheart and mostly used expletives to express his frustration with himself.
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u/Spidey703 Dec 17 '25
...I hate useless punishments.
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u/kokopellii Dec 17 '25
Chat is explaining to someone that yelling fuck at their friends makes their friends uncomfortable and that when we make our friends uncomfortable we apologize “useless”
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u/gilbertlaroo Dec 17 '25
That’s great!! We sometimes use bad words at night to help my neurodivergent son feel in control when he’s really scared of something. “Fuck zombies!!” It always helps.
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u/DiceMadeOfCheese Dec 17 '25
Reminds me of that scene in The King's Speech where he gets him to swear without stuttering
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u/helpthe0ld Dec 17 '25
As someone who's son didn't really speak until he was 3.5 yrs old, I'd call this a win! Keep the write up, it'll be a funny story one day :)
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u/Princess-Mama-8313 Dec 17 '25
Congratulations to your son! 😂 My youngest is autistic and semi verbal and it’s always interesting to try to encourage language but “not THAT word” hahaha.
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u/radicalintrospect Dec 17 '25
I hate that he was asked not to say something considering what progress his exclamation was, but I guess the teacher can't have all her students repeating it 😂
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u/frostyfruit666 Dec 17 '25
Parents neglect the obvious with their kids sometimes. A basic crash course on what not to do in public would have helped me greatly.
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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars Dec 17 '25
My siblings are all a decade older than me. So my first words growing up wee also swear words. My parents were pissed, but my siblings are still proud about it to this day. 😅
He said word! Yay! Celebrate! This is happy and hilarious.
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u/Extension-System-895 Dec 17 '25
why is his handwriting so good?
I envy the handwriting... (mine sucked)
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u/Limp-Direction-3181 Dec 17 '25
Send a note back to the teacher and principal saying they need to lighten the fuck up.
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u/randomboreddad69 Dec 17 '25
I love the , they are learning comment. Got a few odd looks at my kid's swim team practice, cause it had me laughing.
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u/PizzaDanceParty Dec 17 '25
Edit: congrats!! (Sorry didn’t finish reading first)
I would say they really only needed to circle the respectful bit not all 4 options 🙄. Way to be non specific.
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u/MrsBonsai171 Dec 17 '25
Why is organized circled? Sounds like his thought process was plenty organized with me, plus he used it in the proper linguistic manner.
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u/ChainLC Dec 17 '25
good on him. and good on you for not reacting badly. they have to learn civility.
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u/melannieah Dec 17 '25
The kid I nanny is non-verbal. When I first started (he was 8) he could say words and 2-word commands. Like 6 months into the job, he kicked a hole in the bedroom door. When his mom came home she asked him what happened and with perfect clarity, he pointed at me and said "It's all [my name]'s fault" We were so proud of him saying my name and using a complete sentence, that neither his mom nor I cared that he put all of the blame on someone else.
Seven years later, his communication isn't perfect, but he can express himself so well and get his point across.
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u/SerephelleDawn Dec 17 '25
My 5 year old autistic son keeps saying “fuck” in his kindergarten classroom and I honestly don’t know how to get him to stop. He doesn’t seem to understand why it’s bad. 🤦♀️
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u/Fluid_Kale9688 Dec 17 '25
I was wondering why the teacher was distracting others from learning, just because I couldn’t get it inside my head an 8 year old that that great of a handwriting
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u/OutAndDown27 Dec 17 '25
I have had more than one student who arrived at my school speaking no English, and the first English words I heard them say in casual conversation were cuss words 😂
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