To find it annoying when people refer to their children or partners by their initial

[hanmonisnana]

“Just dropped S off at dance class” - just say Sofia, it’s not a long name!!
”D will be home later from work” - why?!!

We do biggest and smallest. Or various other nicknames and diminutives.

My DCs have 9 and 8 letter names. You're going to have to bear with me while I double the length of all my messages.

I fecking hate when people call their kids by nicknames that they named them during pregnancy. Bean, Bear etc…. They’re an actual human now, give over with it.

🤣🤣 this reminds me of my mate when she was pregnant 4 years ago. It was her first and she called the baby peanut all the time, my little peanut this, my little peanut that. She even got a keying made saying ‘mummy’s little peanut coming soon’. Every time she said it, it made a little bit of sick come up in my mouth.

Thank fuck she stopped when the baby was born.

Geez, I find this a very small thing to get wound up about. My ex partner was called by his initial as a nickname by his entire family and I couldn’t have cared less.

This however I totally agree with being annoyed by

What about Dee? It just sounds like D but is a shortened version of various names.

I didn’t do it my children but I have known two people who were referred to as D.

My grandparents had a friend universally known as H - to the point that I’ve just realised I’ve no idea what his full name was.

I do this to my friends children as they all have long and annoying names to write like Aurora, Sebastian, jemima

ita easier for me to just say A S or J

I do this in WhatsApp etc if I am referring to several couples or family groups…eg. C&C are coming so are ASME; I wouldn’t do it out loud though!

In texts I think it’s absolutely fine. Out loud, it would irritate me too.

A few of my friends refer to their children by their ages, e.g. "I took 10 to dance class." It irritates me to an irrational degree but they are otherwise sane and non-annoying people.

Yes first world problems.

We call my daughter by her surname initial because at nursery there were two girls with her first name and they referred to her as Milly B (not real name but would give you an idea.)

My husband was tickled by this and called her it at home and eventually it just became 'Bee'. IT's stuck to a degree in our nuclear family.

Before I even got to the end of the first paragraph I could feel the vomit rising, then I read the last sentence and felt validated

Absolutely, I’m part of a mum group and some people do this, it’s so annoying! Mind you, I also hate the whole DH/DC thing

It’s not! 😂

So many of you would hate me.

We sometimes refer to the DC by their first initial f2f as well as via text🤣🤣🤣

Plus they both have shit loads of nicknames🤣🤣

Most people (possibly inc the DC) don’t even know my DH name is an initial and not his real name.

It always sounds weird when he calls me by my name as he rarely uses it to the point I’ve not realised he’s talking about me 🤣🤣

Husband is know fairly universally by a nickname - including by me for 30 years. Our wedding ceremony used his nickname except the official bit which had to be his proper name. Someone recently said ‘Ben said….’ I said who’s Ben? They said ‘your husband’ 🤣 genuinely had no clue.

I do it. Saves energy and also avoid having to bother to learn how to spell mates kids weird names

Oh my god- what??!! This is NOT an irrational irritation!!

This comment wins 🤣

I also find this so annoying, just type their names out! Makes me cringe

It's just one of those things some people do, does it matter?

I'm a live and let live type, think it's quite weird to care.

Verbally - weird. In text - totally fine.