my irl name is a similar word to 'cauliflower' in another language, and so everybody at school used to call me that like it's funny, I hope everyone who did rots in hell lowk it annoyed me so bad but I was a bum who can't speak up 2 reply
A botched pronunciation of my name. A fun fact is it's quite a common name but it has a one added letter (the vowel i) that changes the pronunciation. All you really need to do is just pronounce the i as i in the common name, yet people somehow uniquely mispronounce my name each time. I swear it's not that difficult 1 reply
My name is very very simple, 5 letters and only one universal pronunciation, but people used to call me "shea" (one letter missing) because my name was "too hard to say". I honestly didn't care until the person who started that said it was also their dog's name.
Those who didn't call me that would call me "shiba" for... obvious reasons, given the ...... reply
No one really called me by my name until I was an adult. So it’s always jarring when it happens. Also, my name is difficult to pronounce so people might be avoiding it. Here are some names I’ve been called
Snuggle bear
Darling
Baby
Dumpling
Sugar plum
Mama (my family calls female babies this for some reason)
Darling love
Baby love
Smiley
T...... reply
Back in 7th grade I had this classmate that would call me "ham" whenever she needed something from me, which is like the pronunciation of the first syllable of my surname.
I fucking hated it since it was lowkey fatshaming and I was quite an overweight kid. And whenever she decides to sit next to me in class, she would pinch my bellyfolds if my po...... reply
