I think those are all totally fair and valid concerns! I just think we miss the forest for the trees when we start quibbling with (adult) people about their individual private lives and identifiers. (Also I figured you might actually be a Steve, haha... I know a John who used to have people *insist* he was a Jonathan, he was like, WTF, I know my own name? Hahah!)
I think those are all totally fair and valid concerns! I just think we miss the forest for the trees when we start quibbling with (adult) people about their individual private lives and identifiers. (Also I figured you might actually be a Steve, haha... I know a John who used to have people *insist* he was a Jonathan, he was like, WTF, I know my own name? Hahah!)
My grandma had to go to my uncle Eddie's school to tell his teachers that his name was not Edward.
Only my mother and sisters call me David, and on the rare occasions that my wife isn't calling be Honey, she will use David. Before I retired my picture ID name tag said Dave since its purpose was to inform people how to address me. Names. There is a woman whose actual name is Jelly Sandwich.
One of my favorite names was Crystal Shanda Lear (a real person, and daughter of the man behind Lear Jets). She went to the same school as my partner, many decades ago, in Geneva, Switzerland. Her family called her Shanda. (Say it out loud if you don't get it).
And I once worked with a woman whose married name was Sandy Beach.
Gay men tend to use undiminutive names; Robert, not Bob; Harold, not Harry, Christopher, not Chris (I use the latter, the former takes too long to write).
Jazz musicians go the other way. Stan Getz. Art Pepper. Bill Evans.
I think those are all totally fair and valid concerns! I just think we miss the forest for the trees when we start quibbling with (adult) people about their individual private lives and identifiers. (Also I figured you might actually be a Steve, haha... I know a John who used to have people *insist* he was a Jonathan, he was like, WTF, I know my own name? Hahah!)
"he was like, WTF, I know my own name? Hahah!"
ЁЯШВ Yep, I know this feeling well.
My grandma had to go to my uncle Eddie's school to tell his teachers that his name was not Edward.
Only my mother and sisters call me David, and on the rare occasions that my wife isn't calling be Honey, she will use David. Before I retired my picture ID name tag said Dave since its purpose was to inform people how to address me. Names. There is a woman whose actual name is Jelly Sandwich.
"There is a woman whose actual name is Jelly Sandwich."
ЁЯШВ I mean, come on! Surely this is child abuse!
One of my favorite names was Crystal Shanda Lear (a real person, and daughter of the man behind Lear Jets). She went to the same school as my partner, many decades ago, in Geneva, Switzerland. Her family called her Shanda. (Say it out loud if you don't get it).
And I once worked with a woman whose married name was Sandy Beach.
In the Richland, WA phone book there was a
Hum, Dyna Mo
"Dynamo Hum" was a Frank Zappa song.
At least you weren't saddled with a name that would fit right into a Beatrix Potter book.
Gay men tend to use undiminutive names; Robert, not Bob; Harold, not Harry, Christopher, not Chris (I use the latter, the former takes too long to write).
Jazz musicians go the other way. Stan Getz. Art Pepper. Bill Evans.
Oh what a mysterious world we live in.
Yes, it is.