apparently, to most americans, they don’t like to embrace names that they aren’t used to, and sometimes dub you a nickname they haven’t earned the right to or didn’t offer in the first place. i learned your name *checks notes* phil, you can learn mine too! #hingepartner
May 19, 2025
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which was embarrassing + frustrating as a child. As an adult I figured out a joke to teach people to say my name correctly and now I really love having an un-nicknamable name + also basically a mononym cos U have probably never met another one of me in Ur life !!
Jun 8, 2024
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i'm half puerto rican and i do think a lot about how me and all my siblings got traditionally white names, but that's a conversation for my therapist
brendan makes enough sense. gets misspelled enough though. but one time recently...
i went to see a movie with my friend PJ, which stands for paris june. she was the ticket holder but i arrived first. i asked the guy if he could just scan one ticket, he asked if i was the ticket holder, and i said no, and he said he could only scan the ticket holder in first, to which i replied that i am the ticket holder. so he scanned my ticket, looked at the screen that comes up for amc stubs members, and he looks at me and says "your name is paris?" and i say "it's pj" and he waves me through, and to this day i struggle with the fact that i could believably be called paris (or he didn't care), and i have to stop myself from giving paris out as a fake name at bars because who the hell is named paris
Jun 8, 2024
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back in school i used to help or hinder my teachers based purely on their first impression when they did the first registration call.
they'd get to about the middle of the list and just pause. and i knew. i knew it was me.
if good vibes - i'd raise my hand and put them out of their misery
if bad vibes - nothing about my expression would betray my position even in the slightest. you would think i was under the impression that i have the most straighforward, easily pronouncable name in existence. and then i would make them guess. guess until they got somewhere close enough for me to go "oh, i think thats me?"
good times
Apr 16, 2024
