On the one hand, just call her Sybil. On the other hand, my apologies for treating a recognized medical disorder so lightly. (I am told by my wife that was a great movie.)
When I was in high school, ours was the first ‘baby boom’ class. We were also a newly consolidated school, having been formed from five smaller schools. One class I was in had seven boys named Robert/ Bob, including two unrelated ones named Robert D. Chamberlain. There were also two who didn’t like their first names, so went by their middle names. Which of course were Robert. Agnes’ Bob would have felt right at home.
My first name is just the letter J. My parents named me that. It has caused trouble all my life. Try filling out a computer form. It will often insist you put your full name. Any agency I talk to has to be assured that it is my name. “So what does the J stand for?”It’s just J.“It Doesn’t stand for any thing?”Just J.“So your name is just the Letter?”etc.Like trying to get your coffee black at Starbucks.“So you don’t want anything in it?”On top of that, my parents always called me by my middle name; they never used the J.
My sister went through this as a kid, she just changed her name on all her schoolwork. The teachers thought she was having an identity crisis. They were thinking psychologist/psychiatrist instead of detention.
Hunter7 over 9 years ago
But… but… when you got in trouble with the teach you were Priscilla of the Jungle!
Jeff0811 over 9 years ago
On the one hand, just call her Sybil. On the other hand, my apologies for treating a recognized medical disorder so lightly. (I am told by my wife that was a great movie.)
Joy MacCue over 9 years ago
When I was a kid, I wanted my parents to call me “Panther”!!
rshive over 9 years ago
When I was in high school, ours was the first ‘baby boom’ class. We were also a newly consolidated school, having been formed from five smaller schools. One class I was in had seven boys named Robert/ Bob, including two unrelated ones named Robert D. Chamberlain. There were also two who didn’t like their first names, so went by their middle names. Which of course were Robert. Agnes’ Bob would have felt right at home.
J Short over 9 years ago
My first name is just the letter J. My parents named me that. It has caused trouble all my life. Try filling out a computer form. It will often insist you put your full name. Any agency I talk to has to be assured that it is my name. “So what does the J stand for?”It’s just J.“It Doesn’t stand for any thing?”Just J.“So your name is just the Letter?”etc.Like trying to get your coffee black at Starbucks.“So you don’t want anything in it?”On top of that, my parents always called me by my middle name; they never used the J.
rshive over 9 years ago
Wonder whatever happened to Raymond J. Johnson Jr.
QuietStorm27 over 9 years ago
My sister went through this as a kid, she just changed her name on all her schoolwork. The teachers thought she was having an identity crisis. They were thinking psychologist/psychiatrist instead of detention.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
I’m also an early baby-boomer.My mother wanted to pick a name for me that was modern, and new, and unusual.
I guess she’d never heard of Susan B Anthony.
EVERY class I was in had 2 or 3 …or 6… Susans….so we all got called by our first and last names…and my last name has three syllables.
It did not make me feel less dorky.But now I’ve grown to like being SusanSunshine, I guess.
J Short…in the late 50’s my mother had a friend named A, who had a sister B and a brother, C.
All born before WWI … A told Mom that her parents thought it was funny.
calvin.longe over 9 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nlX7P0nhaI