When I was five, I would play my Sega Genesis. On one of my games, the spikes moving up and down sounded like someone was saying f**k. So whenever the spikes popped up I would say f**k. I got slapped for that...
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that when you "popped a cherry" an actual cherry popped out.— donp
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- I used to belief that a serial killer popped out of a cereal box. — chelsea layman