they start calling me Liz or Lizzie, which is just So. Very. Wrong. I can't even.
It is! I don't know who Liz and Lizzie are, but they're definitely not you!
I've never understood this tendency to shorten people's names for them. Andrew always introduces himself as Andrew, but there's a group of people, mostly who were friends of his before I knew him, who call him Andy, which confuses me to no end. I just cannot imagine the person I know as "Andrew" being an "Andy," in the same way you are not Liz.
Similarly my mom called one of my first boyfriends Matt when a) I, and he himself, always called him Matthew! and b) I knew about a million other Matts so when she said this I'd wonder which of them she meant, but never think of Matthew.
It is disrespectful not to call people the name they tell you they're called. I really feel for friends of mine who've changed their name for whatever reason and have to put up with resistance to that. But clearly there's a ton of incompetence here, quite apart from any malice.
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Date: 2013-09-05 07:46 am (UTC)It is! I don't know who Liz and Lizzie are, but they're definitely not you!
I've never understood this tendency to shorten people's names for them. Andrew always introduces himself as Andrew, but there's a group of people, mostly who were friends of his before I knew him, who call him Andy, which confuses me to no end. I just cannot imagine the person I know as "Andrew" being an "Andy," in the same way you are not Liz.
Similarly my mom called one of my first boyfriends Matt when a) I, and he himself, always called him Matthew! and b) I knew about a million other Matts so when she said this I'd wonder which of them she meant, but never think of Matthew.
It is disrespectful not to call people the name they tell you they're called. I really feel for friends of mine who've changed their name for whatever reason and have to put up with resistance to that. But clearly there's a ton of incompetence here, quite apart from any malice.