So when I was Born I was given the name "liberty" by my dad, no biggy right? Wrong, the year after I started school(2nd grade) everyday I walked into class,walked hallways,went into bathrooms,went to lunch and ect people don't call me "liberty" they say "hey liberty mutual", "hey mutual" ,"hey statue" "hey livvy" "hey wibs" and extra. The 2 years it went on it didn't bother me but I do have bad social anxiety and everything under the sun. Once I hit 4th grade I started to correct people and told me them either call me "liberty" or "Lj" only 2 of my friends took me seriously. People talking to me about "liberty mutual" or the statue of liberty for laughs pisses me off. I get the fact that it's a rareish name and not everyone has someone named liberty in their circle. But Over the years I made it clear don't mock me over my name being liberty. It sounds so stupid but I feel disrespected when people make a joke out of my name. It feels like im being bullied. And only being known for having a insurance name/name of a statue. Which is why I prefer "lj" and my middle name doesn't help much either but I still love my middle name, which is "justice". I'm tired of correcting people because they are trying to make a joke of my name I know some people are just trying to mess with me to make me laugh buy it doesn't make me laugh. It hurts my feelings and makes me feel disrespected deeply so much to where I'm changing my name when I turn 18.

Fast forward to now I'm 16 and still have to tell people to not make jokes out of my name because It hurts my feelings because how much people sung the liberty mutual ad the second I walked into a classroom. 3 days ago I was with my friend and her friend, my friends name is Kaylee and her friends name is poppy. We was all hanging out in my living room talking about summer plans, After a few hours poppy invited her friends over(never met them before). When they arrived I introduced myself as "Lj" because I'd rather not have the liberty mutual/statue convo for the billionth time in my life. We all started to hang out chat ect, at some point poppy start to tell her friends "did you know her name is actually liberty? Like the statue" they started to talk about it while I sat there in silence because I hoped it would pass in the next few minutes. It didn't they sung the ad to me about 4 times within 10 minutes and started to put pictures of statue of liberty on their phones next to me and compare out faces body figures ect, I was silently fuming. Then poppy casually said "your parents set you up the second u was Born" and she and her friends started laughing and Kaylee sat there looking at me basically silently telling me "lj don't do it please" I sighed and followed with "yea yours did to, POPPY since we are comparing a statue and a song from a ad how about we talk about Mary poppings" you kinda look like her did your parents give you her name because they couldn't find anything better?" I was calm as I said this and said it as casually as she said it. She looked at me in shock and starting to ask me why am I targeting her and basically playing victim. I told her that I reminded her so many times to not bring the whole statue and ad thing up even if it was just us because I was kinda bullied over it in elementary over it. We had a argument and after a while I told her to leave my house and never come back until she can accept the fact that my name isn't a joke nor is it just a ad or statue it's me as a person and I don't like people saying it in the first place. All my friends call me lj or lib which I don't mind because it's not my actual name. She started to call me names and ect then left and the next day made a Facebook post about how people can't take jokes and ect. I just need to know if I'm being a b/tch or overacting.