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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have done this to others and have had it happen to me - nic names and alternate spellings - so many times. For years. I just let it go. I don’t ever mean it personally and I don’t ever take it personally.  My supervisor of 5 years even misspelled my name once. It was not a slight, just a mistake.

Now if DH misspelled my name that would be a different story!

I hope you’re getting treatment for your depression OP

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I'm not sure about mispronouncing names as NOT a slight. I have one that gets mispronounced all the time.

I think what annoys people like us is that sometimes, not always, but sometimes when it happens it comes off from the person as rude, dismissive of you or something to that effect. I've had the situation where when I pronounce it correctly, they will say it is beautiful or "oh, just like it's spelled" and we move on.

I don't think that this is a slight.

But then I've also had the experience where they will ask how to pronounce your name and then (if my name was Madelyn) , " Oh, I didn't know if it was Madeeline, Madalin, Maddalabambiboni". You are just like what in the world, I've just met this person and feel like they are making an annoying fuss over my name.

In high school, a guy just told me straight up that he was calling me Jane, looking back I think that was rude but laughed it off like so many of us do.  [/quote]

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