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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.[/quote]
Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy. 
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No-nickname moms are insufferable. [/quote]

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe. [/quote]

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males. [/quote]

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.[/quote]

I don't call  Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better.  It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.
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The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.[/quote]

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