When I was younger, I used to believe that if I though bad things, like curse words, that my dad would be able to read my mind and I would get in trouble. Silly, yeh?
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to think you had to get special permission from your parents to use curse words— zeitgeist
- When I was little I would always say in my mind, "I know you can read my mind", just in caseAnon
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon
- For the longest time I was sure my cat could read my mind.Anon
- I thought "sake" was a curse word— shh
- "Going to the jazz club in my mind"? Not me! "Going to Nebraska in my mind..."— Felix