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Learning to spell your name was incredibly challenging for you, more so than any other kindergartener.
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In fact it might have taken making up a song or rap to learn how to spell it right.
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You felt unfairly disadvantaged when sitting an exam and they didn't let you fill your name out before it started.
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And if that exam was a bubble test, the struggle was even greater.
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When you had a substitute teacher at school, you automatically said you were present when you knew your name was up next.
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Because, even if your name is spelled phonetically, its sheer length is enough to intimidate anyone.
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People tell you that saying your name is like a verbal marathon.
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There is always that one person who still mispronounces your name in spite of you having corrected them a million times.
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And if you're called up on stage for an award, your name usually gets massacred in front of hundreds of people.
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There's also a good chance your name isn’t even spelt correctly on that award.
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You have do the "A for Apple, B for Ball" thing when you spell your name aloud for someone else.
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Which means it's always a time-consuming activity.
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Especially when you're on the phone, and you have to repeat each letter a million times over.
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But if the person is next to you, you grudgingly offer to write it for them to save time.
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Official forms hardly ever leave enough space for all the letters in your name.
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You find Twitter's character limits on names plain spiteful.
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If you're a woman, people keep telling you that you should marry someone with a really short surname.
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Or they suggest you marry someone with an even longer name than your own and hyphenate.
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If your last name is already hyphenated, you wonder why your parents couldn't have just flipped a coin and given you one surname.
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People always try to abbreviate your name even when you hate it.
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Or they enjoy turning it into stupid puns.
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When your name is really long, autocorrect doesn't misspell it. It gives up on it altogether.
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But then again, even you've misspelt your own name.
