Originally Posted by
724Seney
Originally Posted by
TSherbs
I'm 60+
Retired teacher. I have never done anything but teach since I was 23. I estimated last year that I had read and graded over 25,000 essays and papers in my career.
Reside in Maine (southern half, and there is a difference: downeasters call my part of Maine "Massachusetts")
I have two children and I recently became a grandfather.
I am named after my mother's favorite brother, and my parents are still both alive (in their 90s).
I have only been married once, and I am still married to that woman.
I am a cancer survivor.
I have just begun fostering dogs: my first one is sleeping on the couch next to me right now.
-----> You?
Fascinating. But is seems like you have left out the part which pretty much explains your memory disorder, confabulations, volatility and frequent, explosive profanity.
Want me to connect those dots for you, too?
I'll explain my profanity: When I was eight years old, my two older brothers and I were riding bikes in our town and they sped off and left me in the dust. I was hurt and yelled at them, calling them "motherfuckers". I did not know what the word meant, but they had used it and I knew it was bad and that it might hurt them the way that I felt hurt. I felt power in using it, it was "natural" so to speak. My mother heard me out the window of our house, called me in, and paddled me. Yes, my butt was sore, but it was too late: I had learned the power of uninhibited venting that swearing provides, and I liked it. I still do today. By the time I was 13, I was swearing at my mother (she slapped my face), and only much later, once I was grown, did I swear at my father. I have sworn at my children, my wife, my friends, my colleagues, even my boss(es). I swear in poems that I write and in songs that I perform. I was once called into my boss's office for swearing in the classroom. Obviously I swear in my posts here. I am uninhibited in language, and it is probably my greatest freedom that I exercise since in many other ways I am not free.
edited to add: At my retirement, one of my colleagues gave me a book on the history and psychology of swearing...although I am not sure now where that book is....
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