Adults referring to themselves as 'baby'

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I work with a woman who, at 33, is the youngest person in our workplace. She keeps referring to herself as 'the baby of the office'.

I also know someone who is in her forties and the youngest of her siblings and calls herself 'the baby of the family'.

AIBU to find grown adults referring to themselves as a baby really annoying and cringey?

Yes, it's a bit cringey. But I often hear adults, especially women, saying "I'm going to the little girls room" instead of calling it the loo and I find that even more bizarre.

I don't like it when shorter women put on a cute voice and say "I'm only little!". I know a few women like this. It's like we're meant to think they're all cute and adorable.

its a bit cringe in that sense but i love when my partner calls me baby and i call him it and babe

Yes, I had a friend who used to say 'time for little girls to be in bed' when she meant she was tired and going home. Always made me cringe.

Definitely cringe. My sister insists on referring to herself as my “baby sister” and has no idea how gross I find it.

I especially hate it when intimate partners call each other baby 🤮🤮🤮

Yeah, calling people 'baby' boils my piss too. Its almost as bad as 'hun' 🤮

I bet ISIS call each other hun.

@MrsStrowman I also find it more disturbing when adults call their partners “baby” in a loving way 🤢🤢🤢

I do call my brother my little brother, it’s just habitual. He is now 19 and 6 foot 3 .

I never liked baby as a pet name, it’s weird.

I actually snort laughed at “I’m only little”. Reminds me of the panda in hey duggee.

*I bet ISIS call each other hun."
😂😂😂

I'm the youngest of five and have serious complex health issues, my family still say that I'm the baby and they're suffocatingly overprotective of me. It doesn't bother me as a thing and I may occasionally joke you can't be mean to me I'm the baby. But it's clear I'm taking the piss and they do the same.

The only little thing I can say in some situations though because it's often when I can't reach something because I'm only 4ft9 and my friends and family range from 5ft5 to over 6ft. So when my housemates move things they know no to put them up high because I am only little and I can't fucking reach anything which means if they move my things where I can't get them they'll have to come help because they freak out when I climb on things.

i like calling my partner baby or even babe...
I'll get my coat.

Kind of related, I despise it when the lift is full and someone insists on getting in anyway, saying “Is there room for a little one?” Sounding all smug that they are short/thin. No, Pam, there isn’t room, and now everyone else has to breathe in and try not to accidentally grope one another until they get to floor 10.

I call my younger brother my baby brother. But only to his face in piss taking way when we are having a couple of beers together, because he is 44 and about a foot taller than me.

My sister does it. She’s almost 30. So bloody annoying.

I still get called the baby of the family at 33 but that’s definitely a pisstske if there’s an extra slice of cake going or something and I’m also the tallest. It works on many levels. But my ds is the oldest cousin which I claim is a protest. You can tell we’re hilarious.
I also hate “mum of the office”

I always get called the baby of the group. Doesn’t bother me at all.

i love when my partner calls me baby and i call him it and babe 🤢🤢

Never heard anyone call themselves 'baby...'

I hate this. One bf, years ago, at his sister's 30th birthday, someone said something about age and she put on this cutesy voice and said 'but I'm still the baby of the family' and bf said 'no, Van is younger', and she looked like she wanted to stab me and said 'she's not family!'.

I also hate the expression 'work husband', really cringey.

And the pregnant woman whose maternity leave I covered who said 'i always describe the job as my second baby but as I'm going have another baby I suppose when I come back work will be my third baby'. Vom.

I hear this all the time at work: 'When I was a baby lawyer/accountant/journalist...' to describe when they were early in their careers!

"The baby of the family", etc, wouldn't bother me, unless it was said repeatedly - but the same would apply of any stock phrase that gets overused.

I'm with you on this..calling your self baby act . why would you want to make your self seem incapable or vulnerable

That said me and dp call each other baby. I don't k ow why, he's the only partner I have done it with.
And he knows I'm independent and strong as he will make light hearted fun at times when I would rarther struggle at something untill I get it then ask some one for help.

Yes-that is really cringy-you don’t get men doing it!