when i was about nine i thought the words 'twat' and 'twit' were synonymous. i learned better when dining with my family at a (nice) restaurant and i called a loud kid at another table a twat.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- I thought the tip jar at the restaurant was so people could give the chef cooking tips for how to cook better.Anon
- I used to believe that "BYO" was a name of a restaurant.— Ames
- My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.— Ned