I hate being called by my name

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Maybe I don't mind being called by my name because I have one of the most common names on the planet---Michael. I was one of 4 boys with that first name in my elementary school year class. I wasn't always the one being addressed when it was said. But in any event, I never minded being addressed by name.

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Make up a nickname. Doesn't always have to relate to your given name. Insist on using the nickname whenever your teacher takes roll call or your parents want to address you.

You can also change your name legally by writing a couple of documents to the court. You'll also have to pay a fee (cost depends) and the court will usually accept any request
unless the name is inappropriate or you're doing it for a wrong cause (like evading your consequences).

Throughout the years I have given myself 10,000 nicknames. OK, maybe ten. The most recent and most used is Shadro, made up of my first name, middle name and surname. I have a Doctor Who version too which is Shada. I usually use them when choosing nicknames on forums, websites, and signing at the end of my blog posts.

Sometimes my mania internet aliases become my actual nick names for a while. I don't have a problem with my real name, it's just that I like having my own nick names as though I am a character in a play, and I like giving other people nicknames.

My managers sometimes call me by my sir name, I think it's unusual for this to happen to a female, but that's the environment that I work in.

I don't mind, it get's my attention better.

Hmm I never thought about this. I guess it's true I don't like it either. I think it's our fear of the unexpected (or expected but unpleasant things). "What do they want? What did I do? What did I not do?"

I almost always use nicknames for people close to me. Usually everyone has multiple nicknames I use for them. I don't even call my parents mom and dad.

I feel uncomfortable when people call me by name. And I also have trouble with calling others by their names.

I can reate to that a lot.

I don't hate my name, but I can't pronounce it.

Shop assistants ask me "Glen?", or "Rick?". I have to say "No, G-R-E-G" and spell it out to them. Isn't that just sad.
It's the "R", I can't get my tounge around that one.

Can you not say your "r"s at all or is it just with certain words, like your name?

To me it sounds like an R, but I think other people hear a Www.

When I listen to my own voice on a recording, the vocalisation is all over the place. It sounds ok in my head, but to others its like a thick accent of some sort.

I can understand your frustration. When I was 50 I moved to a country in the Caribbean and the very first person I met called me a pet name after my real name. Then many people called me that. A couple of years later I was given a nickname during a game and it caught on, and eventually that was my name. It was very flattering and generous nickname. It changed the whole world for me.

Not so much the letters in how I speak but when I speak out loud, it is ok but when I listen to a recording, I want to hurt myself.
So do you say "Gweg"? And if so, I would find it easy to link this to Greg, are you sure the NTs aren't being mean?

Would it be ok for you to tell me the nickname as it sounds very good?

I have always hated being called by name. I also tend not to use names when addressing others.

The nickname was the name I use here... "tall-p." A "p" in their local patois is a "partner, friend, buddy. You can say to a friend, "Come on "p" let's go have lunch. I played a lot of dominoes, and that is where I got the nickname... four handed dominoes is a partner game. I lived in a small town for fifteen years, and was one of maybe fifty white people that lived there, and after a few years, tall-p was my name. Also, they didn't call them nicknames, they are "pet" names, and most all locals had at least one pet name that friends used, but no white people had one. It seemed like people liked to say it... and people I had never met "knew" me.

The nickname was the name I use here... "tall-p." A "p" in their local patois is a "partner, friend, buddy. You can say to a friend, "Come on "p" let's go have lunch. I played a lot of dominoes, and that is where I got the nickname... four handed dominoes is a partner game. I lived in a small town for fifteen years, and was one of maybe fifty white people that lived there, and after a few years, tall-p was my name. Also, they didn't call them nicknames, they are "pet" names, and most all locals had at least one pet name that friends used, but no white people had one. It seemed like people liked to say it... and people I had never met "knew" me.

Tall-P is both an awesome username and an awesome nickname.