1.Ah, the dreaded first day of school. What will the teacher do?
2.Do the thing where they linger on that first syllable quizzically, waiting for you to finish it?
3.Or power through with a mispronunciation?
4.Or will they just give up and say, "I'm not even going to try this! I'll just butcher it!"
5.At least you're good for the rest of the school year — of course, until you have a substitute:
6.People always ask you what your name means.
7.People with normal last names are always thinking up horrible ill-advised baby names because they don't understand The Struggle.
8.Quelle horreur! Someone misspelled Tabitha. Must be so hard for you, TABITHA. Why don't you go blog about it.
9.Those personalized tourist tchotchkes never have your name.
10.You've definitely used a fake easy version of your name for making restaurant reservations at least once.
11.On the plus side, you know IMMEDIATELY it's a telemarketer by the half-second hesitation before saying your name.
12.People make up nicknames for you so they don't have to say your full name.
13.If it's an ethnic-sounding name, people always ask you if you speak the language and have relatives in that country, as if immigration to the United States hasn't been happening for 300 years.
14.Your entire identity has to be about telling people how to pronounce your name.
15.There's the awkward situation of correcting someone who's gotten your name wrong for a while.
16.When filling out a form, you realize halfway through your first name...
17.Seriously, never fits on ANYTHING.
18.Even your best friends still spell your name wrong.
19.You've perfected a standard way of explaining the pronunciation by using more normal words.
20.At least you don't have to worry that someone with the same name as you is squatting it on social media.
21.But because no one has your name, there's no hiding your embarrassing internet trail on on Google.
