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Originally Posted by BirdieBelle
When I'm around people, in person, I try very hard to "meet them where they're at" and I'm ALWAYS surprised at how many adults don't even try but will make a big fuss out of anything different ... "Goll-ee is that your name!!!?? Dang, that is different. I never heard that name before! What kinda name is that?"
I have a very normal hard-to-mess-up first name with a maiden name that would be mispronounced 9 out of ten times. It gets SO old.
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I have an ordinary first name that screams out, "I was born in the 1950s!" (well, there are some from the early '60s but they spell it differently). My last name is a fairly common English surname. Everyone here has heard it.
My married name was easy to mock, easy to mispronounce, and easy to misspell. When I got divorced, I had it put in the papers that I was taking back my real name. My daughter is stuck with it, though.