And I Really Don't Have Any Family Left These Days So No One Deliberately Calls Me By The Old Pronunciation - Tumblr Posts
8 months ago
reblog for larger sample size :)
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Best way to describe it seemed choosing Other
It was less a changing of my name and more a reclaiming
my name is Spanish but I was raised by the white side of my family
and they always anglicized my name
and butchered my middle name
and I thought that was my name until I began taking Spanish classes in junior high
and I began to question
and then I had to get a copy of my birth certificate to apply for a passport
and then I discovered what my middle name truly was
which solidified how my first name should be spelled and pronounced
so I go by that now
and I really don't have any family left these days so no one deliberately calls me by the old pronunciation
it's considered a mispronunciation and I'm very content with that.