For a while I believed that saliva was a naughty word to say, because it seemed like a private bodily fluid that you should not mention in public.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen
- When ever we went to the gas station, it was to replace the blinker fluid.Anon
- I used to think that bodily tissues were kleenex sheets that grew in certain parts of your body.Anon
- I used to believe that the foam that sometimes washes up on the beach was shark saliva... — Tiffany
- I thought my age started at 4, because I couldn't recall any mention of my age before.Anon