ValentineWiggin
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I hate my first name,
mostly because people for some reason are illiterate and can't pronounce it.
My parents insist on calling me by that, naturally.
To everyone else, I go by my middle name.
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Briana_Lopez
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| I used to despise my name, but I don't mind it anymore, although it's starting to become a very popular name (about 1/2 of my friends share my name). But the name I still can't stand is my middle name. It's Rae. Both my dad and I say it's a boy's name, and my mom disagrees with us. It ticks me off when people call me Briana Rae without permission. I don't care how pretty it souns to other people, it'll always be hideous to me. |
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ValentineWiggin
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Briana_Lopez wrote: | | I used to despise my name, but I don't mind it anymore, although it's starting to become a very popular name (about 1/2 of my friends share my name). But the name I still can't stand is my middle name. It's Rae. Both my dad and I say it's a boy's name, and my mom disagrees with us. It ticks me off when people call me Briana Rae without permission. I don't care how pretty it souns to other people, it'll always be hideous to me. |
I agree with a tradition I read about where people are allowed to choose their own names upon puberty.
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Alexender
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| ValentineWiggin wrote: | | Briana_Lopez wrote: | | I used to despise my name, but I don't mind it anymore, although it's starting to become a very popular name (about 1/2 of my friends share my name). But the name I still can't stand is my middle name. It's Rae. Both my dad and I say it's a boy's name, and my mom disagrees with us. It ticks me off when people call me Briana Rae without permission. I don't care how pretty it souns to other people, it'll always be hideous to me. |
I agree with a tradition I read about where people are allowed to choose their own names upon puberty. |
That would be awesome! What is the specification for puberty? (for guys) 13?
I would like my name to be- Puppetmaster as my first name. My middle name would be Von Hoven. My last name would remain the same.
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ValentineWiggin
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| Alexender wrote: | | ValentineWiggin wrote: | | Briana_Lopez wrote: | | I used to despise my name, but I don't mind it anymore, although it's starting to become a very popular name (about 1/2 of my friends share my name). But the name I still can't stand is my middle name. It's Rae. Both my dad and I say it's a boy's name, and my mom disagrees with us. It ticks me off when people call me Briana Rae without permission. I don't care how pretty it souns to other people, it'll always be hideous to me. |
I agree with a tradition I read about where people are allowed to choose their own names upon puberty. |
That would be awesome! What is the specification for puberty? (for guys) 13?
I would like my name to be- Puppetmaster |
Uh....isn't it usually when your voice deepens and your testicles drop?
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Alexender
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Well it is not like a guys voice suddenly is lower overnight. And I did not measure how far my testes were from my body on a daily basis so I never noticed a significant difference. And that would depend on if you had just gotten out of a hot shower or were cold, etc. (lol)
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matt
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I don't like to be addressed directly except as "you".
My username is the common nickname for my first name.
I don't like to be addressed by my proper first name. Being addressed as "matt" or by my last name is less bad(although I still don't like it), but being addressed by anything else seems incredibly incredibly bad.
Two people at my workplace always directly address me as "Matthew" and I hate it so much. |
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Neutrino
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| I've always liked my name and I don't mind being called by it. I don't like nicknames though. I hate when people call me weird versions of my name. Either say my name properly or don't say it at all. |
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Joe90
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I hate my name too. It sounds so cringing when people shout it across the street. Not because it's a horrible name, but because I don't like everybody knowing my name.
It also makes me jump when people say my name (sometimes). But I'm awkward because the other day my mum called me ''her'', and I said, ''don't call me that'', and my mum said, ''you don't like me calling you your name, you don't like me saying anything, what am I meant to say?!'' And I'm like, ''I don't know.''
My mum has also pointed out that whatever name I would of been called I wouldn't of liked. My favourite name is Donna and I wish I was called Donna, but I bet if my mum had of called me Donna I probably would have been complaining about it today and wishing I was called something else.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I do...I always think I'm about to be "told off" when someone does it. Plus, a lot of people pronounce my name wrong...I especially don't like when people shorten it. |
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mrspotatohead
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| Vito wrote: | I used to hate my name; now I do not mind to be called by it, but I am not happy about it either.
What is interesting, is the fact I rarely use other people's names when talking to them, though when talking about them, I have no problem with name reference...... |
I'm the same way. It feels too personal, maybe, to use someone's name in address to them--probably because I am reflecting my own feelings about being called by my own name onto them. At the same time as I have reasoned that all out, though, I am not sure that my aversion is rational. I just know I have it. |
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| Alexender wrote: | | Well it is not like a guys voice suddenly is lower overnight. And I did not measure how far my testes were from my body on a daily basis so I never noticed a significant difference. And that would depend on if you had just gotten out of a hot shower or were cold, etc. (lol) |
You didn't measure that daily? Strange. 
Yeah, puberty is a long, multi-year process... average onset for boys is said to be age 12, for girls, age 13. |
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FishStickNick
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I don't really have a problem with my first name or being addressed by it. I do hate giving people my last name, though, because I have to spell it out most of the time. That said, I don't address others by name unless I have to.
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What is interesting, is the fact I rarely use other people's names when talking to them, though when talking about them, I have no problem with name reference...... |
This. I'll occasionally adopt nicknames for people I know, too. Not sure why; maybe it's to avoid the direct-name reference. |
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HairlessAlbinoCat
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I have never really liked my name, but more than the name it self. It's the fact that whenever I think about it, there is nothing about it that I found identifying or actually familiar on any sense.
So I've been meaning to change it not because I identify with one other name, it is more like because I don't think I'll ever like to be called by a name so it might as well be a name I found interesting.
Though I guess that I'd prefer people calling me by my surname in the sense that at least I would feel protected under the veil of formality.
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I feel really uneasy when people call me by my name. As if I had done something wrong and was going to be found out.  |
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