When I was very young I knew all the swear words, I also knew my parents would punish me severly if I got caught saying any one of them. Then I heard my mom say "shit" when she thought she was alone, she had this evil look in her eye that scared the crap out of me. It took me 10 years to realize that even if I had uttered a swear word, my mom wouldn't have thrown me down like she did with the phone all those many years ago!
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I thought there were some swear words so bad if you said them you would go to jail!— Mexicrat
- I used to believe that bizarre was a swear word.Anon
- I used to believe that “shut up” was a swear word.Anon
- i used to believe that if you said a swear word you would turn into the opposite sex the next day— jess
- My cousin used to think that "body" was a swear word.— Jordan
- i used to think the word "suck" was a swear wordAnon