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So every time

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I introduce myself to somebody new,

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I always tell them that
my name is Tijan.

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But what it is that

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I don't think that they hear me properly
because every time I say that my name is

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Tijan, they automatically hear TJ
and they're shortening it in their heads.

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Or if I do tell them my proper name,
they say, “Can I just call you TJ instead?”

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And then so

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because of the frustration of that,
I just let them run with it instead.