I used to think that earwigs were a type of toupee that you wear behind your ears.
A childhood belief about spelling

others believed things like this
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon
- I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.— Sheila
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- I used to believe that a pigeon was a type of pigAnon