When I abuse I do not know I am abusing. This first happened when I was at school. I have protruding teeth and because of this, everyone called me parrot, parrot. One day I beat up this one boy who called me parrot, par-rot even though I did not say anything to him. He had short brown hair. I caught him by his hair and then I beat him. But I did not know I abused him and his father and his sister. This happens when I am angry. One of the other boys later told me I used the sister-word to abuse that boy-with-brown-hair, his father and his sister. He said that I said Bhenchod to him . It is not a word I will say. Not to his father. But everyone says that I said this word. Everyone cannot lie.

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