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by flurdy 1071 days ago
"Alphabetical privilege", nice. As someone who's surname starts with AB I would also call it "alphabetical curse". E.g. back when I was young when teachers would describe what to do then often would call each pupil up alphabetically to do it, and I was always first, and most of time had not actually listened to the instructions...
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I was in the same boat. It took me a long time to realize that it was better to set "the bar" rather than meet or exceed "the bar."