The name we picked took an unexpected turn

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Anonymous wrote:Don't get attached to any names you give your kids. Just wait until they are teenagers and declare that you will not call them by their birth names anymore (aka "dead names") and that instead you will use their chosen names and pronouns instead. You will very quickly get over any dislike you might have had for the cute nicknames their older siblings gave them.

I love my nonbinary teens, but I laugh now at how much time my spouse and I spent arguing over their names. I doubt I will ever get to call them by those names again even though those names are beautiful and have family connections.

Honest question -- I am not making fun.

There are some nonbinary kids at my kids' school who have chosen names that are objects. These are not the names, but they are something like Soup. Crime. Ohio. Is this common among NB teens?

PP of this post -- and I have no idea, because all the nonbinary friends I've heard of have picked actual names, but now I'm laughing because now I can look on the bright side, that my kids chose actual names and not objects! Even if I don't much like their chosen names, I guess it could always be worse.

You have more than one non-binary teen? What are the chances?

Every teen in my DD’s class, including DD, are self-described as non-binary.

Ah, so it's some sort of stupid trend and not actual gender dysphoria.

Yes, but try to be nice. Teenagers are trying to figure out their place in the world, and the more you make fun of it, the more this type of thing will stick out of stubbornness.

[Anonymous]

My nephew is Axel.

My niece and 99% of other toddlers call him "A__hole"

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My mother still carries scars from being called Bucket in her younger years. Her name is actually Rebecca, nickname Becky, but another child in her class had a speech impediment and called her Bucket and it stuck until they moved away. No maliciousness intended, but definitely perceived by a sensitive early ES child.