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<h2>Being a kid in a world built for adults can be hard to navigate, especially when you haven&#39;t developed the social skills to understand why it&#39;s offensive to ask your aunt why her stomach always looks like Santa Claus.</h2><p>Kids often blurt out whatever they&#39;re thinking, and shamelessly dropping a social faux pas at the dinner party or grocery store aisle is a familiar mess that parents deal with. Turning awkward situations into an opportunity to teach children about respecting boundaries or proper manners can be a good solution, but sometimes you just can&#39;t go back to that store ever again if Susan is still the manager. Sorry, Susan...</p><p>So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What inappropriate thing did you do as a child that you didn&rsquo;t realize was inappropriate?&quot; people were ready to share the accidentally impolite or NSFW things they did as kids.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Back when I was 7, I was shopping clothes with my mom and she went to the &quot;clothes testing&quot; station or whatever it&#39;s called (English isn&#39;t my native language). I didn&#39;t know in which one she was so I peeked through every single one of them until I could find her. - AlienSociety</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I have an aunt who has one fixed eye (her right eye doesn&rsquo;t move). I think I was 4 or 5 back then. We were having a conversation and I asked her flat out, &ldquo;Can you tell me which way you&rsquo;re looking at? It&rsquo;s very confusing!&rdquo; - darcydidwhat</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was a young kid I used to walk up to anyone irrelevant of age and gender and ask them &quot;Do you have a willy? I have a willy!&quot; My dad still brings it up from time to time. - UpstairsGripe</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to put pillows over my belly around the house and pretend I&rsquo;m pregnant when I was like 7 ish. Once I remember laying on my stomach like that and moving up and down. I liked that feeling and kept doing it IN THE MIDDLE of the living room. Only after some years I realized what it actually was&hellip; - vertexnectarine</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>Yell &ldquo;I&rsquo;m being violated&rdquo; because I thought it meant I was being made violent - CrankyComics</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to play with this cup in the bath and drink water out of it for years, did it in the shower too as i got older, it had a handle on the end of it and I never knew why. One day I witnessed my mother use this cup in the toilet violently, and that was the moment I realized what a plunger was. - That-nz-guy</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to call those pigeons with the pointy tuft on their heads &quot;horny birds&quot;. I would yell it out so loudly too. My mum told me she had to look away every time I did it because it made her laugh until she cried. Obviously I wasn&#39;t told until later because I was only 5 at the time - Arthurwritethiss</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Had a friend who was a year older than me, one day he wanted me to suck his toes. So I did. It was gross and I never did it again. We were maybe 8-9? - GruggsBuggz</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Me and my opposite sex cousin played doctor after school. I don&rsquo;t think I need to say more. - jaypreme13</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was about 7, my mom was friends with an Asian woman up the street and one day she came to our house and when I opened the door I yelled to my mom &ldquo;MOM! AN ASIAN LADY IS HERE FOR YOU!&rdquo; Now I&rsquo;m 18 and realize that loudly announcing who is at your home by their race or nationality doesn&rsquo;t sound all that great. - thebigbroke</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>We went to an Easter egg hunt at my mom&#39;s friend&#39;s place who we didn&#39;t see in a long time. When I saw her friend is said &quot; Oh my God, you got old&quot;. My mom was really embarrassed and laughed it off but I can see the pain in her eyes thinking back on it. - randomomuser</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to respond to everything with &quot;that&#39;s what she said&quot; not realizing it was a dirty joke. - onelovesuperwoman416</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Went grocery shopping with my mom and asked her if we can get some semen, but meant to say cumin. Everyone stared at her and she was just like &ldquo;What??!??!!&rdquo;</p> <p>Was young and saw them talking about cumin on a tv show and wanted to try it. - One-Jicama-847</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>I heard bender in futurama say &ldquo;its a grower not a shower&rdquo; and repeated it constantly not knowing what it meant - arandomgayfella</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not me, but my sister used to lap her drinks up like a dog. Turns out she was calling this &ldquo;doggy style&rdquo;. One time they forgot to bring her a straw at the restaurant we were in and she loudly screamed &ldquo;GUESS I&#39;LL DO IT DOGGY STYLE&rdquo; lmaooo I think she was 7 or 8 at the time. - knotsy</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>I apparently pointed at an overweight bald man whilst shopping with my dad and yelled &quot;Look Daddy it&#39;s Homer Simpson!&quot; - jprocter15</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once misheard some random song lyrics that were played at a festival so I sang along and kept singing even when we left the festival.</p> <p>I sang &quot;Nazi, nazi&quot; until my mom realized what I did and told me to be silent.</p> <p>I am Austrian - Lavley</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Answered the door naked for a couple of Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses. - Vox_Popsicle</p> </blockquote><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>Told everyone in a family reunion that I caught my parents hugging naked - gummywormeater</p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 people share the accidentally inappropriate things they did as kids.

Being a kid in a world built for adults can be hard to navigate, especially when you haven&#39;t developed the social skills to understand why it&#39;s offensive to ask your aunt why her stomach always looks like Santa Claus.Kids often blurt out whatever they&#39;re thinking, and shamelessly dropping a social faux pas at the dinner party or grocery store aisle is a familiar mess that parents deal with. Turning awkward situations into an opportunity to teach children about respecting boundaries or proper manners can be a good solution, but sometimes you just can&#39;t go back to that store ever again if Susan is still the manager. Sorry, Susan...So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What inappropriate thing did you do as a child that you didn&rsquo;t realize was inappropriate?&quot; people were ready to share the accidentally impolite or NSFW things they did as kids.1. Back when I was 7, I was shopping clothes with my mom and she went to the &quot;clothes testing&quot; station or whatever it&#39;s called (English isn&#39;t my native language). I didn&#39;t know in which one she was so I peeked through every single one of them until I could find her. - AlienSociety 2. I have an aunt who has one fixed eye (her right eye doesn&rsquo;t move). I think I was 4 or 5 back then. We were having a conversation and I asked her flat out, &ldquo;Can you tell me which way you&rsquo;re looking at? It&rsquo;s very confusing!&rdquo; - darcydidwhat 3. When I was a young kid I used to walk up to anyone irrelevant of age and gender and ask them &quot;Do you have a willy? I have a willy!&quot; My dad still brings it up from time to time. - UpstairsGripe 4. I used to put pillows over my belly around the house and pretend I&rsquo;m pregnant when I was like 7 ish. Once I remember laying on my stomach like that and moving up and down. I liked that feeling and kept doing it IN THE MIDDLE of the living room. Only after some years I realized what it actually was&hellip; - vertexnectarine 5. Yell &ldquo;I&rsquo;m being violated&rdquo; because I thought it meant I was being made violent - CrankyComics 6. I used to play with this cup in the bath and drink water out of it for years, did it in the shower too as i got older, it had a handle on the end of it and I never knew why. One day I witnessed my mother use this cup in the toilet violently, and that was the moment I realized what a plunger was. - That-nz-guy 7. I used to call those pigeons with the pointy tuft on their heads &quot;horny birds&quot;. I would yell it out so loudly too. My mum told me she had to look away every time I did it because it made her laugh until she cried. Obviously I wasn&#39;t told until later because I was only 5 at the time - Arthurwritethiss 8. Had a friend who was a year older than me, one day he wanted me to suck his toes. So I did. It was gross and I never did it again. We were maybe 8-9? - GruggsBuggz 9. Me and my opposite sex cousin played doctor after school. I don&rsquo;t think I need to say more. - jaypreme13 10. When I was about 7, my mom was friends with an Asian woman up the street and one day she came to our house and when I opened the door I yelled to my mom &ldquo;MOM! AN ASIAN LADY IS HERE FOR YOU!&rdquo; Now I&rsquo;m 18 and realize that loudly announcing who is at your home by their race or nationality doesn&rsquo;t sound all that great. - thebigbroke 11. We went to an Easter egg hunt at my mom&#39;s friend&#39;s place who we didn&#39;t see in a long time. When I saw her friend is said &quot; Oh my God, you got old&quot;. My mom was really embarrassed and laughed it off but I can see the pain in her eyes thinking back on it. - randomomuser 12. I used to respond to everything with &quot;that&#39;s what she said&quot; not realizing it was a dirty joke. - onelovesuperwoman416 13. Went grocery shopping with my mom and asked her if we can get some semen, but meant to say cumin. Everyone stared at her and she was just like &ldquo;What??!??!!&rdquo; Was young and saw them talking about cumin on a tv show and wanted to try it. - One-Jicama-847 14. I heard bender in futurama say &ldquo;its a grower not a shower&rdquo; and repeated it constantly not knowing what it meant - arandomgayfella 15. Not me, but my sister used to lap her drinks up like a dog. Turns out she was calling this &ldquo;doggy style&rdquo;. One time they forgot to bring her a straw at the restaurant we were in and she loudly screamed &ldquo;GUESS I&#39;LL DO IT DOGGY STYLE&rdquo; lmaooo I think she was 7 or 8 at the time. - knotsy 16. I apparently pointed at an overweight bald man whilst shopping with my dad and yelled &quot;Look Daddy it&#39;s Homer Simpson!&quot; - jprocter15 17. I once misheard some random song lyrics that were played at a festival so I sang along and kept singing even when we left the festival. I sang &quot;Nazi, nazi&quot; until my mom realized what I did and told me to be silent. I am Austrian - Lavley 18. Answered the door naked for a couple of Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses. - Vox_Popsicle 19. Told everyone in a family reunion that I caught my parents hugging naked - gummywormeater  

Being a kid in a world built for adults can be hard to navigate, especially when you haven&#39;t developed the social skills to understand why it&#39;s offensive to ask your aunt why her stomach always looks like Santa Claus.  Kids often...