I wound up thinking shoot was a bad word because it's what my parents said instead of sh*t when they were around us.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- when i was 6 or 7 i had it thinking that the big "F" word was 'fatso'. — gaby r
- I used to believe when I was a child that when I was injured, the wound would never be repaired or cured.— solid
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- I used to believe that they shoot the chickens we eat one by one at the farm.— A
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS