How Code-Switching Pressured Me to Embrace an American Name ...Middle East

I didn't know my name was Cindy until the first day of kindergarten. The teacher was doing roll call and kept shouting, "Cindy Rodriguez, Cindy Rodriguez," and I remember wondering, "Who in the world is missing their first day of school?" Then the teacher approached me and asked, "You must be Cindy Rodriguez, right?" I told her, "No, I'm Yulissa Rodriguez." A few hours later, they had to call my mom, who had to update my paperwork and said to me, "By the way, your first name is Cindy." You would think I wouldn't be as confused as I was since, in my Peruvian family, middle names were often used instead of first names. The only truth I could grasp at that moment was that at school, I needed

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