Problems with people shortening their names?

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This is probably a weird one but I was wondering if anyone else had problems with people shortening or altering their names i.e. Peter to Pete / Andrew to Andy / Sandra to Sandy?

I have always found it difficult to use people's alternative names and often get annoyed when others do. As an example I had a friend at school who was called Alison but she shortened it to Ali. I remember that one day she told me that I was the only person that called her Alison which I found a bit amusing because that was her name to me.

Also people often change my husbands name to Scotty rather than Scott and I can't stand it, I just want to slap them. He doesn't even call himself that, no one in his family calls him that and I never once have. It drives me bonkers!! !

Can anyone relate? Or am I just crazy?

I was given the name Joshua... which is bland, but ok.

Then I got stuck with Josh M. in school, which I despised, Shua was cool for a while til my chance encounter with my woman, who named me Max, which fit perfectly.

I like suggesting odd versions of names.

Alison could be Iso, Ison, Liso, etc, Christopher can be Chris... sure, or Topher even... but why not Isto?

I'm comfortable with calling people by the name that they introduce themselves. I have a hard time when someone I've known since childhood suddenly decides as an adult they want to be known by another name. It feels awkward and false.

You are just crazy. I think people usually shorten their names so it will be less formal, and/or easier to say.

It always bugged me so much and still does. My name is Jessica, not Jess or Jessie. I'm legally changing my name to Kalahari in the future because all the emotional abuse I went through as a child has made me hate my name and associate it with negative things. The last time someone called me "Jessie", I flipped them off. I'm okay with Jess but it so so annoying! My name isn't officaly Kalahari yet but people think they can call me "Kala" or "Kali". My name is KALAHARI! In my Lion King fan fictions, I was called by my last name, maybe people calling me by my last name wouldn't be so bad in real life but then there are some people out there who'd try to shorten that too. How short can you make a too syllabyle last name? It's not just names, it's as if regualr people have to make a game to try and find a shorter way to say anything. For instance Cheverolets are called "chevies", Scottish Terriers are called "scotties", Newfoundlands are "newfies", and bearded dragons are "beardies". Most people seem to be lazy when it comes to language. I think I've even heard meerkats being refered to as just meers or 'kats. It seems to be a game to them, "let's try and shorten any word we can! Let's give it a "cute" nickname." Ack, so annoying. Whenever I take Pippin to pet shops and people are like, "Oh is that a beardie?" I say, "No, she's a bearded dragon. Or a Pogona vitticeps." Stop it, you are going to confuse her. I think we're all hypocrytes. I can't stand it when people shorten my name but I call Pippin, Pip-Pip or Pippy or than I call her Pippin.

My name is Morgan.
My sister likes to shorten it to Smörg.
I simply do not react when someone calls me Smörg.

Also some people change their nicknames because they feel their nickname is too childish. Someone told me online how someone didn't want to go by Beth anymore because it felt too childish so she decided to go by a different name. I think I'd be weirded out if my own child asked me to start calling him by something else because "his nickname is too babyish."

If people call you something you don't like, just tell them what you want to go by.

My name being oliver, creates a fair few shortened versions. Ollie, Ol, Oz, Ozzal...
I don't mind any of them really. I remember a friend of mine's mum used to call my Olivia. I didn't like that one too much...

My name is Simon and I hate it when people call me Si. The name Simon only has two syllables and doesn't need to be shortened.

I don't see anything wrong with, and I do it alot of the times.
My name is Ian and people just call me "E" and I prefer to use that.

I have no problem with people using a shortened name, as long as they're consistent. It's either "Josh" or "Joshua", you can't switch names at will.

Nobody easily shortens Aidan . . . although at work people seem to react to that by lengthening the name . . . one person calls me "A.I. Dan" which I don't like because I hate the sound of the name Dan. I cannot easily shorten or change people's names in my mind. Deron goes by Ron and Danielle by Danni, but since they never introduced themselves that way, I still struggle.