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My first name is unusual, not completely off the hook, but because of it I learned to fight at an early age.
The mom had better teach that child how to defend herself from bullies, because mom won’t be able whine on social media to protect her kid. With that name, she will face worse in life than a tactless SWA employee.
Very PC of you, but you do know a number of European countries simply will not let parents give children stupid names. Just because one classroom of kindergartners learned her name just as she learned theirs is not a meaningful representation of the real, cruel world.
Why saddle a child with a pointless burden like that?
Really? Which countries and which names? As an American, I'm surprised you aren't upset at the intrusion of those governments into the lives of its citizens...over a name. Please don't talk about names like Hitler.
I once knew a guy whose given name was Richard Cranium. Hardly anyone knew about since he always went by the first name, RC. He was never scared emotionally, as far as I knew.
DH had a Commander named Richard Johnson and he went by "Dick". Of course the company laughed about this A LOT.
His superiors took it further referring to him as "Dickie" or worse "foreskin".
Really? Which countries and which names? As an American, I'm surprised you aren't upset at the intrusion of those governments into the lives of its citizens...over a name.
Yeah, rah rah freedom.
But whose? The parents? Or a child who will be saddled with a name that can be as bad as a brand on the forehead? Who has no choice in the matter until they are at least old enough to be taken seriously about it - maybe 10-12? - or old enough to legally do something about it - 16-21.
What more important and shaping element of self-identity is there? Shouldn't there be someone who steps in when a moronic parent decides to cripple a child with a stupid, demeaning, pointlessly weird name?
Especially when it goes past bizarre, overwrought spellings for their own sake, and non-names to be different, and "names from other cultures" that are never going to be spelled or pronounced correctly in the child's life... to this kind of absolute nonsense name.
But whose? The parents? Or a child who will be saddled with a name that can be as bad as a brand on the forehead? Who has no choice in the matter until they are at least old enough to be taken seriously about it - maybe 10-12? - or old enough to legally do something about it - 16-21.
What more important and shaping element of self-identity is there? Shouldn't there be someone who steps in when a moronic parent decides to cripple a child with a stupid, demeaning, pointlessly weird name?
Especially when it goes past bizarre, overwrought spellings for their own sake, and non-names to be different, and "names from other cultures" that are never going to be spelled or pronounced correctly in the child's life... to this kind of absolute nonsense name.
Wave that flag, Grybltnnskuns.
Dude, the child can tell all her friends to just call her "Abby." Listen, I grew up under some harsh circumstances. I would have gladly accepted a funky name if I could have traded some of my familial issues. Little Abcde will survive just fine.
Really? Which countries and which names? As an American, I'm surprised you aren't upset at the intrusion of those governments into the lives of its citizens...over a name. Please don't talk about names like Hitler.
But parents do name their children names like Hitler and Aryan. Am I supposed to be cheering for these parents ability to ruin their child lives at such an early age? Woohoo!
Dude, the child can tell all her friends to just call her "Abby." Listen, I grew up under some harsh circumstances. I would have gladly accepted a funky name if I could have traded some of my familial issues. Little Abcde will survive just fine.
And at the start of each new school year, or anytime there is a sub, the teacher will take a guess at how abcde is peonounced, and all the children will laugh.
Sure, she can claim her name is Abby, but she can't officially change her name on any official records while a child. And why should a child even have to go by a different name to keep from being embarrassed? The parents should have avoided such a situation to begin with.
I really love the name Sebastian. It's not too out there of a name, and has actually become very popular over the past few years. But I couldn't bring myself to give my kid the same name as a Disney crab. How names sound, how they're spelled, and the name is associated with is something parents should consider when naming their child. It's a name the child will potentially have to live with for the rest of their life.
Dude, the child can tell all her friends to just call her "Abby." Listen, I grew up under some harsh circumstances. I would have gladly accepted a funky name if I could have traded some of my familial issues. Little Abcde will survive just fine.
We have no way of knowing whether this "funky name" is the extent of the familial issues this child will deal with -- it likely isn't, imo. A parent who inflicts that name on their child probably is going to be equally cruel in many ways.
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