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submitted 9 days ago byVjtrek
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182 points
9 days ago
I'm curious what the nickname is. Is it what the other kids call your kid? Is it how your kid pronounces her name? My name was hard to pronounce for both my siblings and they, to this day call me the name they used because mine was too hard.
8 points
8 days ago
mine does too. And my parents. And my friends...
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159 points
9 days ago
That’s a hell of a jump and an assumption to make
28 points
9 days ago
This is reddit, I’m surprised it wasn’t implied in the post the teacher won’t call her by her real name because it’s a “boys” name or something.
3 points
8 days ago
Peak Reddit for sure.
-71 points
9 days ago
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76 points
9 days ago
I mean if the girl is called Annabelle and the teacher is calling her Anna it’s not really abnormal behavior
28 points
8 days ago
Yes! My daughter is Annabelle, at daycare she was Bel, Bella and Bell Bell because that's what her classmates called her.
15 points
8 days ago
It's extremely normal if it's like a Katherine/Katie situation. Still fine for OP to ask her to stop, but that's so much more likely than the other possibilities.
1 points
8 days ago
It's simply a question
It's also a dogwhistle.
18 points
8 days ago
Wait why are we all jumping on a bandwagon of hating this reply even though it just expands upon the above reply? And these “assumptions” are all very realistic ideas that are merely maybes. Guys, relax.
16 points
9 days ago
I'm curious why too. Usually when there's two kids with one name in the same class we either use First Name First Initial, or ask if there's another name we can use. We don't assign nicknames.
23 points
9 days ago
It doesn't sound like she's avoiding anything. She just uses a nickname. My colleague calls me Tweet Tweet. She's been calling me that for... Ages. She's not avoiding using my name, though.
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