Respect my child's name
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babynamesI saw this article on CNN. Has such a thing ever happened to any of you? Has anyone, especially a relative, ever refused to call your child by its given name?
Or has anyone not 'respected' YOUR name? For example, in grade school there was a girl who constantly insisted on calling me Al. My name is Alison, and nobody else ever called me Al. I hated it and thought it made me sound like a trucker, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings by telling her to stop. Alternately, there was a guy in high school who decided it would be hilarious to start calling me Ali, in order to annoy me. The thing was, my nickname WAS Ali. Most people at high school didn't call me that, but my childhood friends and family all did. I thought when he realized that I was responding to the nickname and not getting annoyed in the least, he would catch on... but he never did.
Or has anyone not 'respected' YOUR name? For example, in grade school there was a girl who constantly insisted on calling me Al. My name is Alison, and nobody else ever called me Al. I hated it and thought it made me sound like a trucker, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings by telling her to stop. Alternately, there was a guy in high school who decided it would be hilarious to start calling me Ali, in order to annoy me. The thing was, my nickname WAS Ali. Most people at high school didn't call me that, but my childhood friends and family all did. I thought when he realized that I was responding to the nickname and not getting annoyed in the least, he would catch on... but he never did.
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Date: 2010-04-21 08:16 am (UTC)