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Is it bad have people call you by a different name instead of your real name ?

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  1. Meadowlark17

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    No I've been going by Stoney for a while it's just a nick name.
     
    #21 Meadowlark17, Aug 20, 2014
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    May I ask you why they call you Stoney ?:confused:
     
    #22 stocking, Aug 20, 2014
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    that's cute it reminds me of how i call Stone Cold (the wrestler) Stoney. he's not the only one i call a nickname like that. i call Cody Rhodes "Cocoa", and Seth Rollins "Sethy" and Dean Ambrose "Deany" and so on.
     
    #23 Ruthven, Aug 20, 2014
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    I get called different things by different people. Some call me by my first name, some by my last, and some call me one of the many nicknames I have lol
     
    #24 LostLion, Aug 20, 2014
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    Had quite a few nicks in school but the most pervasive was "Doobey". The irony was that I did not smoke.
     
    #25 Kai LD, Aug 20, 2014
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    I prefer dru rather than Andrew only mum ever called me that .
     
    #26 ahardlife, Aug 21, 2014
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    No it isn't a bad thing. I've recently changed my name socially to better match my gender.
     
    #27 SomeLeviathan, Aug 21, 2014
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    People have called me by my chosen name since I was two. I don't see the problem.
     
    #28 Wuggums47, Aug 21, 2014
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    It's not bad. I have a nickname. No one knew what my real name was until my math teacher called me by it. They thaught my real name was my middle name (which I don't go by but what I have personalized stuff by that name.) No one will think your untrustworthy.
     
    #29 Zannan, Aug 21, 2014
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    This a 100x
     
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    i've started introducing myself with a different name, though that is because it matches my gender a little better. but i've known quite a few people who go by names other than their legal one. my sister goes by her middle name, which was my parents' choice :slight_smile:
     
    #31 stormborn, Aug 21, 2014
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    No I don't think it's bad at all.. My Dad has one legal name, but goes by another name as my grandfather registered his name the wrong way around when he went to register his birth. My uncle also gets goes by Buck when he has a totally different first name. If you have a different name you wish to go by, then that is all you need to explain to someone if they find your legal name is different. I have a nickname I go by as well, it is typical for my name though and my niece has taken to calling me something else as well as she can't say my real name yet.
     
    #32 Blossom85, Sep 17, 2014
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    Your real name is whatever you choose it to be.
     
    #33 kageshiro, Sep 17, 2014
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    Amen to that. If someone is going to get their panties in a twist about it then that more reflects them than you. Many people "go by" a different name to the one they were born in.
     
    #34 black-cat, Sep 17, 2014
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    Nope. I've done it more than once. Using my real name now though.
     
    #35 Hexagon, Sep 17, 2014
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