They just think they're the only people that matter in the world. Main Character Syndrome is a wild drug.

This whole post triggered me.

I love my mum and dad very much.

But it gets somewhat tedious when you have to spell your name quite possibly over a hundred thousand times in your lifetime.

Having previously worked in child protection for almost a decade I can tell you that children with these kind of misspelled names are over-represented in the children we received reports about. I worked at a report intake and assessment hub and did over 5000 reports in my tenure there, and I saw SO MANY of these kinds of names.

Not all kids with these names end up being abused or neglected, but a lot of abused or neglected kids have these names.

My oldest has a name from one of my grandparents' ancestors (I think their grandparent or great-grandparent) that's not common in my country (my grandparent was an immigrant). The name is easy to pronounce, but unfortunately there's a celebrity with a similar name, so people always mistake it for that name.

The other two are very common here and haven't caused issues. But the one foreign name has been a serious problem, but fortunately my kid loves their name, and it's unique without being a pain to spell.