My name is different not ghetto!

As you can see my name is very different. My mother had a best friend in college and her name was Arlinda. My mom loved this friend so much she wanted to name me after her. Arlinda itself is a very unusual name. My mother's friend had been named after an old movie star her parents admired. My dad's name is Sheldon. I was the first child and for some reason my dad wanted me to be named after him too. He put an sh at the beginning of Arlinda, and that's how I got my name. My whole life I've had mixed feelings about my name because it was so different. There have been lots of people that said they thought it was a pretty or beautiful name, but that hasn't changed the frustration I feel over it. It's been misspelled and mispronounced so many times I have lost count! I can understand the misspelling of it, ( my grandfather for some reason has always spelled it Charlinda), but pronouncing should be easy. My number one pet peeve is when people mispronounce my name and call me Sholonda or Sharonda, just because they know I am part black.Lately this lady at work calls me Sholonda no matter how many times I correct her or show her my name badge.It's getting extremely annoying.I guess that is why I just had to write about it! Most of the time it's been black people that try to make my name ghetto although a few white people have done it. A white guy I once knew called me Sharqwanda as a joke. It was never a joke to me though, because I could always feel something racial coming from it.
My name has been spelled or pronounced as: Starlinda,Shartinda,Charlinda,Sholonda,Sharonda ect. There's another one I know , but I can't seem to remember it at this time. The only people that seem to pronounce it right half of the time are foriegners! Anyway just to let people know, my name is different not ghetto!

Sharlinda
Pronounced: ( shahr Lin dah )
It sounds exactly like its spelled.