xatrix26 wrote:
Anything but my real full name is just an insult. Everyone who knows me knows this to be absolutely and unequivocally true about me. Perhaps this has something to do with misread intentions from others and being unable to read them properly when somebody uses a nickname? Whether or not it's an insult or a compliment?
The issue of nicknames has always bothered me and I don't use nicknames for other people either for the same reason. It's just too much of an uncertainty principle.
By full real name, do you mean first name, middle name, last name?
I go by my middle name, last name but nearly everyone around here just calls me by my middle name.
There is hardly anyone who doesn't know who I am in town even if I don't know them. A couple of years ago some high school girl was selling cookie dough to raise money in the local school. I had never seen her before and I was standing in front of someone else's house, but when she was filling out the paper, she wrote down my name correctly without asking!
Another time I pulled up to the drive up window at the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. I had no idea who the woman was at the pharmacy was, but she went and got my prescription and handed it to me without asking my name. With me was the son of an old friend who had come here for a couple of weeks. It really impressed him that she knew who I was without asking.