100 Word Challenge: Your name here
Teresa Elizabeth Dean
I was born Teresa Elizabeth. Like Tara I have spent my life trying to get people to spell Teresa the way mine is spelled. I have no “H” in it. I was named after both grandmothers and really hate my name. Maybe if they pronounced it the way it is in Italian, my grandmother was Italian and it is really pronounced Ter – asa, long A, I might be able to tolerate it, but I would still spend my life telling people how my name is pronounced.
I wish they had chosen Elizabeth as my first name and not the middle.
Exactly 100 words.
Teresa (Tessa) Dean Smeigh
-Advocate For Mental And Invisible Illnesses
-Author Of Articles, Stories And Poems
http://www.tessacandoit.com
http://www.finallyawriter.com
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About Tessa
Teresa (Tessa) Smeigh is now in her 60's and still going strong despite her disabilities affecting both physical and mental abilities. She has bipolar disorder (mental), Fibromyalgia (nerves), degenerative disc disease (spine), and arthritis (joints).
Despite that she is active in Mental Health Advocating, writing for www.IBPF.org (volunteer for non-profit) and has 5 blog posts already published by them. She is also working on 2 fiction books (mysteries). She keeps her blog filled with useful content, daily devotionals (She is a Christian), stories and poems. Plenty to keep you busy. She has also been interviewed by blogs and had other posts published on many different blogs.
She has 3 blogs so far http://www.tessacandoit.com and http://www.finallyawriter.com and http://www.sunnythoughtsandprayers.wordpress.com
She is from Deptford, NJ. Her family and blogs keep her busy.
At one point, I even thought of having business cards printed that spelled out my name phonetically. Now, I explain once how to pronounce Tara, and if someone remembers that tells me they were paying attention.
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I have drs who are writing prescriptions looking at my name on my file and still spell it wrong.
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Yep. I’ve had people repeat my name back to me incorrectly, seconds after telling them what it is.
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People tell me they looked for my name on a list and can’t find it. If you put an H in it you will not find it!!!
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