Weird naming society

My name is rarely pronounced correctly the first try and I like to think I’m the worlds most awkward person. Yet, I don’t care. If they don’t ask how it’s pronounced, it doesn’t really matter to me. If they ask, I’ll awkwardly tell them and move on with my life. All of elementary, the teachers called me a slightly different pronunciation of my name and I didn’t rlly mind. I would tell the people I was close with how to actually say it and their mind boggled reaction always made me feel like I just revealed that I was a spy. It was like a party trick almost. People have also complimented my name a lot, I think it’s very pretty too. It’s a name my mom made up.

My sister’s name is double digits long (also made up). Mom created a song for her name and we’ve all been fine. Me, her, mom, teachers, everyone. She has a lot of nicknames.

The r/tradgedeigh subreddit seems very odd to me. They’re the only ones making fun of peoples names. But then they claim “such a bad parent, imagine what everyone will say!” Imagine going your whole life and no one’s said anything to you about your name so you don’t really care and then you see a group of strangers on the internet making sick comparisons and talking about how YOUR NAME makes them wanna throw up.

I just seen someone say they vetoed Calliope (but love it) because people would pronounce it callie-ope. Is our plan to use the same six names for the rest of human existence just because some people find other names ugly or won’t pronounce it correctly the first time? And let’s subtract a few for the ones that are “dated.” I’m not saying name your kid Analsex, but I am saying that some names are worth a shot.

Btw, it’s very unlikely your kid would get bullied solely bc of their name. Their name may add fuel to the fire but no one’s thinking “I’m gonna beat up on Braxleigh bc his name sounds ugly!”