MIL gets half of my toddlers name wrong.

[Sugargliderwombat]

So my MIL has twice used the wrong name as my sons middle name. The name she 'thought' it was is my exes name. She recently signed up for something for him and we got a letter through the post where my surname had been omitted, too (his is double barrelled).

So basically she only knows his first name.

Aibu to think this is weird? Surely if you've been corrected a couple of times you'd remember your grandsons full name? Or Aibu?

Get her a crappy personalised gift along the lines of ,’to the worlds best granny with love from Alexander George White-Black.’

are you expecting your child to be referred to as both names? Is it Christopher Sebastian for example, you insist on using both to address him and not just the first bit?

Although it's been at least 24 hours since we had MIL bashing so the correct response is that she is doing it deliberately, the vile old witch, you must cut all contact immediately and leave your husband for good measure.

Do you think she genuinely can't remember it, or do you think she is doing it deliberately? I have almost infinite patience for scattiness, especially in older people, but if she's doing it to make a point I would be angry, and I would keep pointing out the "mistake" every time.

Depends. Is your mother-in-law prone to forgetfulness or just on this issue? Also realistically how often are people using your son’s middle name? My sons are adults now and I think their grandparents would have struggled to remember their middle names beyond birth. Also, are the names similar, like Benjamin and Benedict, or completely different to each other?

Buy him a very personalised T shirt and he wears it every time you see her..

If she remembers other people's names, especially those who are so significant to her then either she is becoming senile and it's coincided with the birth of your son or she is doing it deliberately.

If you think she is doing it deliberately then I'd say right to her face that she needs to stop it.

That would piss me off. The name is double barrelled.

I really dislike people getting someone’s name wrong repeatedly, I just find it so incredibly rude.

I wonder if she has (for example) John James stuck in her head and it just comes out automatically.

My father-in-law always calls me by SIL's name. We're 20 years apart in age and look absolutely nothing alike

No I'm asking if it's weird because I think it's odd enough to be a bit worrying, she sat down and filled out a form and paid a lot of premium bonds to an almost completely incorrect name, even though I've corrected her before.

It's especially weird she's changed it to my ex partners name (which is nothing like the name it is).

We also had a really long conversation about whether to double barrell it which she seems to have forgotten.

My OH thinks it's completely normal which is why I asked on here.