In my family little girls were not allowed to say the word "fart" so for the longest time I thought it was the f-word. When I was about ten years old it finally dawned on me that fart wasn't a cuss word after I saw the actual f-word spray painted on the side of my elementary school.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I thought the f-word was fart.— Caroline
- i believed the f-word was fart until i was about 8.— Kendra
- I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.— Tara
- Up until 8th grade or so, I was convinced that I invented the word "Fart"— Jonah
- When I was little I believed that the "F word" was fart. My mom laughed at me when I told her.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny