Most embarrassing thing you've said in front of your parents

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What are the most embarrassing/inappropriate things you've said to someone or out loud while your parents were there?
I've said way too many embarrassing things over the years! The worst is that I had no idea they were even wrong until my parents told me why.

I am not sure. I am sure I have said so many embarrassing things over the years in front of them, even NT kids say embarrassing things in front of them. Their social filters are also not developed.

I think the worst thing I ever said in front of my mother was when I saw her talking to one of our neighbors and I asked her "Mom why are you talking to her? You said don't like her." The neighbor's eyes got wide and she walked away and never spoke to my mother again and my family were made the outcast on the block and she invite all the neighbors over for parties excluding us.

I should have waited until that neighbor wasn't around anymore before asking it but I didn't know then. I was an adult when I started to figure out how to filter things by waiting until a certain situation to say it.

Nah I never embarrass myself. I feel embarrassed for a lot of things my parents said to me, though. I don't think they ever noticed. Lots of parents think they're always right and can not imagine their children being embarrassed by them.

I once loudly asked my dad what the word 'carnal' meant in a bookshop. I kept on it as I didn't think he was giving me a very clear answer.

I'm sorry I don't understand the question. Are you asking whether we have said something we find embarrassing to our parents or are you asking whether we have said something that made our parents embarrassed? I'd like to answer but I don't really understand the question and I'd like to answer it correctly.

I don't know really, my parents are the only people I'm close to other than my aunt so they are the people I am the most open with and after 24 years they are fairly used to me missing the mark with whats appropriate and what isn't. I did learn last year there is no good time to ask your parents whether they've ever engaged in cross dressing though. I don't really see what the problem was, I feel gender is fluid and that people should be allowed to express that.

One time when I was around 20, I had to call my aunt and uncles house for something. As I was dialing the phone and while it was ringing, my brain was racing to figure out what to say when one of them picked up.

Here's how it went.
Uncle: Hello?
me: Hey Uncle Mark, it's Aunt Cheryl.

Both my uncle and my mom (who was in the room with me) burst out laughing.

I was so embarrassed!

Something that your parents found embarrassing that you said to someone else or out loud.

I didn't even know that was a word until now, anyway..... just looked up the meaning. Also yeah I've said something I thought was a joke but wasn't funny before to my mom and when she didn't say anything I kept saying it again because I thought she just didn't hear me.

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Around my mom and her boyfriend I once asked if her boyfriend's mother was pregnant (she was just morbidly obese)

hmm... I'm not seeing a serious problem with that either. It's a different story if you asked a stranger or your friend's parents, but it was your own parents.
Of course, I may be off on this one, as I have the same issue with knowing what's ok to say or ask and what's not sometimes...

My mom told me a silly, naughty joke when I was 11. "What's the difference between a grocery store cat and a hardware store cat? A grocery store cat sits on the beans and peas and a hardware store cat sits on the nuts and screws."

She didn't realize that I "got" the joke, and she was very embarrassed when I told the joke to her best friend, prefaced by, "Guess what?! My mom told me a dirty joke!"

When I was about 3, we were at the grocery store when I saw a little black kid about my age and screamed out, "Look, Mommy! It's Little Black Sambo!"* She clapped her hand over my mouth so fast I though she was going to break my neck.

*(I'm not racist, just old. And I didn't like the book that much, really).

Oh, just yesterday I said something to my senior citizen mother than I regret. Lately, my younger brother who has an alcohol problem is living with her and maybe the situation is bothering her but she was getting irritable and I said something to the effect that I did not trust that when I tell her something she would not yell at me. Oh, she started crying and saying "It hurts my feelings you don't trust me" and I didn't mean that, so I started apologizing all over the place and still am and she told me to leave her house. I have called her to say again I'm sorry but I hope that at least when she leaves this world, my relationship with her at least will not be ugly. I just hope I did not hurt her feelings irreparably. Anyone had to cope with this?

I don't get embarrassed about things that easily. I often say things that are inappropriate without intending to....but I don't realize I'm doing it, so I can't be embarrassed by it. Sometimes I say things that come out in ways that I don't intend, and they might laugh about it, and explain what I've done wrong. My parents are pretty easy-going; it's hard to embarrass myself around them.

Oooooh, well then that changes my answer. I am pretty sure my parents have been embarrassed by something I've said in public on many occasions. I just don't know of anything specifically because they don't tend to make a big deal out of it. Sometimes they correct my behaviour when I misinterpret others greatly but not usually things I accidentally say. Still, yeah, I'm fairly certain I've said things that have embarrassed them because there was a question of that sort in my diagnostic interview...and I was a bit surprised by their answer lol!

My mom has been married three times, and my sister was saying one day about how she'd like to have a younger sister. I said that there was no way that was happening unless Mom got married again. I say that sort of thing to my sister sometimes, but only when we're alone. It didn't occur to me until after I said it that I should have kept my mouth shut. My mom got really mad, fortunately she got over it quick.