when my brother was in kindergarten my mom HATED him shortening his name to Chris instead of Christopher and told him he wasn’t allowed to do it. but “Christopher” is a really hard name for a kindergartner to spell.

so when parent-teacher conferences rolled around the teacher was like “Yeah, he’s doing alright but you might want to talk to him about practicing spelling his name. Maybe shorten it to “Chris””

And then she pulled out a pile of his work and my dad started laughing so hard that he had to leave the room because my brother had signed his name as CHRIST on every single one in giant kindergartner handwriting