I used to think gay was a very bad curse word. Then one day I read a book that said it(meaning happy of course) and I told my sister and she played along with me and told me that was the most inappropriate picture book there ever was.
I still don't like to say gay, even though it isn't a curse word.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I thought "sake" was a curse word— shh
- I used to think you had to get special permission from your parents to use curse words— zeitgeist
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- when i first heard the name "blow job",i thought the meaning of that word was blowing a snot out of your nose.— myuka