When I was little my mom told me that if you said the "f word" a curse would be put on you. She also told me that when people say the "f word" it means that whoever you say it to, you want to put a curse on them. Yeah, weird... However, I was scared of saying the "f word", but when I was eleven everyone was saying it and nobody died, so I figured it was a lie.
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
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to think the word fever was just another word for giraff— Marshall m
- I used to believe everything starting with f was a bad word after I learned about the "f-word". — Sarah
- i used to think the word "suck" was a swear wordAnon