I used to believe that bastard was just like darn because everybody would yell " You Bastard!" and they would be irritated with them. I was mortified when I found out what it really meant.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i used to yell at the moon and sun for following me— rachel
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy
- i found out that the people on tv were alive when i was eight.— mursem
- when in was little i used to think that cocaine was sugar until i found out what it was— jamie dulake
- i used to think that when i got a hard-on it meant i had to pee.— mw