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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems really weird? Is it only women?

I've never heard of using a different name at work v. home -- unless it's a different name in the sense that some groups just call you one thing and some another, or you have a name like... Fifi or Cookie or something at home. [/quote]

My family calls me by my middle name because the family member after whom I was named has been our first name longer than I have.  My middle is far better than a cutesy nickname version of my first like some others in my family (like my 45-year-old cousin Davy or Little Adam).  I got tired of trying to correct people back to the middle name around 6th grade (because a place in the form for your preferred name were not a thing in the 80s/90s), so most people call me by my first name while everyone at home calls me by my middle.  It feels weird if my mom calls me by my first name - I just assume she's talking about the relative I was named after.  I bet it'd be just as weird if someone at work called me by my middle.[/quote]

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