I used to think that the word creative was always associated with crayons, because of the artistic 'cr' sound in both words.
A childhood belief about spelling

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that crayons were candy and the colors were flavors. We went through a lot of crayonsAnon
- I used to think Art Deco was Aunt Deco, and wondered who this famously artistic woman was meant to be.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- I used to think that little people in my penis had crayons and colored my pee yellow.— Ryan
- I used to believe that the people who "colored" The Simpsons ran out of skin-toned crayons.Anon