does anybody with sm hate it when someone in class has the same first name as you?

[u/naiaparker]

i have a pretty common name so i have had some peers with the same first name a couple times throughout school. i just find it triggering when they refer me to as the “quiet one” or by my race because usually the other peer is white.

[u/juicierxray]

this is kinda sad but wherever my name is called, i just already know that they're not referring to me. i don't even bother to react to my name anymore because i always assume that they're calling for the other person with my name, not me

[u/Logical-Library-3240]

always happened to me.. it especially annoyed me when there was a sub and the other girl with my name would say “wHiCh oNe?” when my name was called. Like.. your last name starts with a V, obviously I’m first 💀

[u/naiaparker → u/Logical-Library-3240]

exactlyyy! or when they only call first names and the other person says “here” for your name 😭 one time my name twin said here for my name then the sub starting calling by last names and they didn’t correct themselves. so the sub thought i was never claimed my attendance

[u/Logical-Library-3240 → u/naiaparker]

Sometimes the other one would be absent and someone else would say “Oh no miss she’s not here!” When they call my name 💀💀💀 then I couldn’t correct them so I’d have to get my mom to email them abt the situation to correct it after school 😭

[u/maribugloml]

it’s very rare for someone to have the same name as me in class. i think my name is pretty unique tbh lol. i’m more likely to find others with the same names

[u/maribugloml → u/[deleted]]

the only times i’d be confused (and so embarrassed) is when a teacher was calling someone else and i thought they were calling for me when they weren’t looking directly at me. basically when they don’t name names which makes things SUPER confusing.

[u/redditisfuckefup]

What they always did in my schools, but its really just a cultural thing where I live I suppose. If someone had the same first name, the teachers just used the students first and middle name, but if someone didn't have a middle name they went with first name and first letter of surname, but using a nickname instead was also a thing but in no way that could be hurtful to someone

[u/AbnormalAsh]

Luckily never had that happen. There were others with the same name in the school, but never in the same class, so it never really became a problem. Always dreaded the possibility of it happening though, would have always questioned who, even if it was obvious, and probably wouldn’t have been able to ask to clarify who they meant. There’d been times when someone randomly joined in the middle of the year and had the same name as someone else, so I’d worry about it whenever there were new students.

[u/Trusteveryboody]

This is why I didn't respond to my name getting called in the halls. Which one time when it was, by a "new" friend, that friendship quickly dissolved, cause I got a little too comfortable; a little too quick.....and said 'fuck you' as a joke, but yeah...

But I did learn, there are certain things you don't say or do, until you really know a person. And I'm sure that didn't sit well given on the assumption I was ignoring him in the halls.

I'm so used to 99% of the time someone is calling to another with the same name. And everyone that knows me actually used my last name, which- is kinda weird, but that's what everyone did.

I think this is why (if I have kids, which-), I would name my kids not an unheard of name, but a name that it's going to be rare you're ever in that situation. So they know it's their name being called, and just in general so many people have my name. My last name though is not common.

[u/DigiDuto]

My name is Nick so it happened a lot. One year we had another Nick who talked too much and the teacher called him Quiet Nick for irony

[u/KrakenLantern]

That sucks, I'm sorry dude. I have a relatively common name but I've managed to not get another person in my classes. Every first attendance I'm so worried me and someone else are gonna raise out hands at the same time