My name on wrong planet, Hermier = a person in the act of being a hermit.
likeasorethumb wrote:
If you're wondering what my name means on WP, I think at school I stick out like a sore thumb, like that classic expression. I get called weird on a daily basis!
OMG you just brought back an old, old memory. In second or third grade I used to play the flute. I have never had any musical talent whatsoever ~ but everyone who took lessons at the school was in the Band by default.
The Band performed in the evening twice a year, the audience being our families. I was a Third Flute; we sat in rows w/our instruments & music stands, facing the center of the stage. For some reason I thought it would be "cool" to laugh at the (admittedly awful) violinists during their special performance w/o the rest of the instruments. So I was sitting onstage laughing hysterically, but I wasn't even really laughing ~ just faking it, b/c for whatever ill-conceived reason, I believed it would cause the audience to admire my sophistication.
Afterwards my mother told me that she was ashamed of me because during the concert, I "stuck out like a sore thumb". I was surprised ... I thought I would be gaining the admiration of the audience... I had been sure of it. That was my only reason for pretending to laugh so hard that I practically fell off my seat. How did I come up with that notion? Certainly not from watching the people around me ~ all the other kids just sat quietly when it wasn't their turn to play.
Back to the subject. IRL my nickname is Mom.
But I had a different nickname growing up. When my younger brother was starting to talk & couldn't pronounce my real name yet, he mangled it into what became my nickname. Looking back, I wonder why on earth my parents began to use the baby's mispronunciation of my name, instead of my name (which after all, they had chosen for me). Maybe it was the beginning of the favoritism, I don't know. That particular brother was adored by everyone in our family, went on to be very popular all through school, and is still at the center of his group of friends... maybe my parents saw that coming, and allowed him to "change" my name in acknowledgment of his future status relative to my own lack thereof.
Or that could be a bit of stretch.