When my friend was 6 she used to misspell heroine as "heroine". She'd once written, "My favorite thing about movies is the heroin" in her essay, and then her parents were called to explain the situation.
A childhood belief about spelling

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you spelled "ESSAY" like "SA" and "EASY" like "EZ".— Lauren
- I thought my parents had written "Don't Worry, Be Happy".Anon
- my friend used to believe that the swirly icing on hostess cupcakes was her name written in script ;]— Mrs. L
- I used to wonder why so many cops in movies were called "Lieutenant" as a christian name.— chris
- I used to think actors in movies sometimes had to actually die to make the movies look real.— Dero
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin