Mister and Miss [First Name]

[Natsku]

Originally Posted by Badfish740

I guess then maybe the operative question is why adults (or at least some adults) are so averse to being called "Mr." "Ms." or "Mrs." by children? My parents have an acquaintance who is their age (late 50s) who refuses to let her granddaughter call her "grandma," "nanny," "nana," etc...she wants the child to call her by her first name because she's "too young to be called a grandmother." THAT is weird Get over it people, you're old-it's life-it happens!

I don't want to be called Ms. last name because I like being called by my first name. I like the familiarity and casualness it implies. And its the culture here too, and as an immigrant I think I ought to try and fit into the native culture as much as I can.

[Badfish740]

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It clearly is regional (and, sorry, yes, I suppose I could have searched on this topic first), but the odd thing to me is that I am born and raised in the Northeast and this was the custom I became used to growing up. You live in the deep South and think the complete opposite. Conventional wisdom would have things switched around. That in and of itself is interesting.

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After many deletions, it seems this topic just becomes too toxic on this forum. Closed.