My teacher won't say my name correctly for two years.

When I finally stand up for myself, it leads to her getting fired.

Here's a little bit of background.

So I have a semi-common Hispanic first name and I'm living in the Midwest United States.

People don't always pronounce it correctly.

Generally speaking, I think of myself as being fairly flexible with how others pronounce it.

If it's our first time meeting, I will say how it is pronounced.

And as long as they get somewhat close to the pronunciation after a couple of meetings,

I will let it slide and acknowledge their efforts.

If we've met multiple times and they still clearly make no effort to pronounce my name correctly,

that's when I start to take offense.

This wasn't always the case though.

Before I used to just acknowledge whatever people would call me,

and after dealing with some identity issues in my teen years,

like many of us do, and going to counseling,

I learned to fully embrace my identity, including the correct pronunciation of my name,

and was taught to stick up for myself as well.

The story takes place when I was starting that transition.

In my teen years while attending high school, during my freshman and sophomore year,

I had a teacher that was a stickler for the rules.

One of those teachers that had been teaching for 40 plus years and had her system down

and wasn't going to let anyone change her way of doing things.

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