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When you find yourself responding to anything that sounds remotely like your name.
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When you start to question whether you even know how to pronounce your own name?
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When you wonder if your colleagues even know how to pronounce your name.
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When your relatives still can't get their tongues around it, even though it's literally been OVER 20 YEARS.
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When you forget someone's name five seconds after being introduced them because you were concentrating too hard on making sure they got yours right.
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When you order over the phone and then witness the mess they've made of your name.
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When people abbreviate your name to your first initial.
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When people ask with a glimmer of hope in their eyes whether you go by another name.
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When you wonder if your own future offspring will be able to say your name?
10.
When you graduated and knew your greatest life achievement so far would begin with an awkward pause.
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When someone with a name somewhat similar to yours becomes famous and everyone thinks your name is now theirs.
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When your friends tell you how someone you don't even know said your name completely wrong.
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When you go to a country where the people somehow know how to say your name and you feel so damn overwhelmed.
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When you wonder why your parents decided to do this to you.
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When people with regular names get their knickers all in a knot because someone made a tiny mistake with it.
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When you give the restaurant host your partner's name instead of yours, and then realise they probably think you're being repressed by them.
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When people ask where you're from because your name doesn't match their ideal of ~normal~.
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When people really push that your name is NOT NORMAL and continue with "but where is your name from"?
19.
When you realise half way through a first date that there's no way the person sitting across from you knows how to say your name.
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When someone has said your name wrong for so long now it would be awkward to correct them.
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When you imagine your life without your impossible name and realise you absolutely hate the thought.
