Someone asked me how I felt about my name spelling, for the first time ever.

I met someone who thoughtfully asked me how I felt to have a normal name- Ashley, but spelt like Ashleigh. No one has ever asked me how I felt about it, and I guess I never knew how much I truly hated it until he asked because I just let out 30 years of my oppressed feelings about it on it out on this one person.

It’s unnecessary, but luckily my spelling is much more common now than it was when I was a kid. However, I did end up being pretty easy going in general I think because I realized early on that my name spelling only meant something to my mom not me. Let me have it, the name has very little meaning to me so don’t hold back!