I went over my friends house one day when I was young and we were talking about school. One of her class assignments was to write about what scared you or something like that and it was due in a few days. So she asked me if it would be bad to put "I don't like spiders. They freak me out" because she thought freak was a swear word.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- When my brother was little he heard the song "Le Freak" by Chic (Ahhh, freak out!) like this: Ahhh, free cow!Anon
- every time I see a shadow thats not mine I freak out because I think It's a vampire— Dalton Anderson
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- i used to think the word "suck" was a swear wordAnon
- I used to believe that bizarre was a swear word.Anon
- I used to believe that “shut up” was a swear word.Anon