Were you rude as a child?

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My little sister tends to say stuff harshly and demanded a regular ice cream cone not a sandwhich kind today. (I said she had a rude mouth) then she said nuh uh! Then mom/her yelled back forth for over 10min. So I was curious does this reflect anyone else's childhood? (Sure the not get what you want part but my concern was the being rude and not knowing it something I've read that's part of AS which I myself have even done as an adult.)

When I was a child I was very rude but everyone I talked to was rude, too. It was a rude society with rude people much like it is now. People are just plain rude, although I am much more polite than I used to be...to a point, if you consider avoiding and staying quiet to be rudeness.

I didn't mean to be rude...I just didn't know that what I was doing was considered rude half the time.

Yeah, I was. I didn't mean to, though.

Yes, in a snobbish way. My mother corrected me on that issue several tmes.

Many of my childhood memories are of me having my manners corrected.

Rude awakening topic

I was a child at a time when being rude to adults (mainly teachers) merited corporal punishment.

I rebelled as a teen at the time of Woodstock when it was hip to be contrary.

(A kid's rudeness is not the same as a teen or an adult. Barring behaviour problems, most can be dealt with easily. But I do not think this was the point of this topic!)

I was an anti-social b***h. But I was also teased for years, so that probably didn't help any.

Yes I was, and for very good reason.

I've always felt rudeness was justifiable when:
-Someone is being rude to me
-Someone is forcing me to do something I can't do
-Someone is forcing me to do something I don't want to do
-Someone is completely disregarding or insulting my views, opinions, thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
-I'm suffering due to someone's ignorance (i.e. Parents seriously thinking that I chose to "act this way" and punishing me for it)

And more...

Many said I was.

I told the truth even if it hurt. I was precise, so I might say a person was fat. I would ask questions deemed personal. I would say if I didn't want to hear someone, etc...

ALSO, to this day, I won't really apologize unless I mean it.

I have videos of me when I was a young child & my mum said to me quite often..."Stop being rude, or I'll turn the camera off!". I was like..."But I'm not being rude!".
I don't think I realized that I actually was.

Being rude is a judgment passed on you by somebody else. So, the question may be if one was rude intentionally or was simply perceived that way if compared to some sociological standards.

I do not remember myself being rude on purpose as a child. I was mostly odd. However, I never said things like "hello", "goodbye", "thank you" until I was a teenager. Coupled with no eye contact and general tendency to avoid any sort of conversation, I was always considered to be extremely rude, egoistic and antisocial. I can't remember how many times I was called a "neanderthal", "psycho", "ret*d" and bunch of other names.

I still find it hard to say "how are you?" or "nice to meet you" because I frankly don't care about the answer to the former, and often do not find a bit of truth in the latter.

I have been accused of being rude even though I'm not because of not saying "Hi!" or "Hello" and then just look at them everytime I could see them

LOL....Y'all havent been to RUDE DEER (Red Deer).There are some pretty rude people here....some who burp without saying excuse me, pass gas in the check out lanes, go into stores with no shirt and shoes, and who are very vexious toward the people behind the customer service counter at work.The drivers are pretty bad too, ...a person would try to switch lanes, and another car was speed up and go at a speed so they cant change lanes.

I was teased for years and when I moved here, I tried befriending one person but then he passed me off as a creep, so ya, I am now very anti social and dont like talking to anyone or disclosing anything that could be used against me.My college classmates wonder why I am anti social and evasive in personal questions.....maybe if they were to learn about what I put up with in high school, they'd get the picture.

I was always very polite as a child, but then again, I never talked much to people outside the family. To members of my family I could be rude and sarcastic from early on. I always had to win every argument. I was never consciously rude to peers as a child, but I would sometimes be too honest, not pay attention when they talked and often forget they were even there and ignore them.

As a teen being rude was a defense-tactic. It's not so much fun to tease a girl who retorts with sharp comments that make your friends laugh at you. I'm never rude now, but impolite in the sense that I don't always greet people and I try to squirm away from chit-chat.

People sometimes think we're rude to each other in my family, but that's just the way we talk to each other. I've occasionally made the mistake of using the same style with other people, but not anymore.