I relate to this. When I was younger, I used to just accept people shortening my name so it was easier for them to say, and didn't really think much about it. Until I moved to California and suddenly did not introduce myself as the nickname that had been chosen for me, but rather my full proper given name, and people actually used it without shortening it. I came to realise how much more I preferred that. Genuinely glad there's more of a movement now about respecting names more, especially when they're not from the same culture. I actually used to perform improv with someone from Mexico, and when I met him he'd been using the English pronunciation of his name, but then as time went on and with the encouragement of me and others, he started going by the Mexican pronunciation. I felt so happy that he was able to bring that authenticity back into his life.