When I was 9, I used to believe telling somebody they were buff was a cuss word. Considering I heard it on television and had no idea what they were talking about, 6 years later, it's kind of funny.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- i used to think oral sex was talking like,oh i want you and stuff of that sort......kind of like talking "sex"— merrissa
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon
- For some reason, I used to think that a 'condom' was a kind of hairstyle. No idea why.— SW