I love this :) It's also fascinating that the teacher gave her 5-year-old students the job of deciding what nickname they wanted to use in class--probably knowing that that name would be likely to stick at least through school. My only personal experience with this was having to choose a pseudonym of sorts for 9th-grade French class because there was also an Anna in the class (and Anna and Hannah are pronounced basically identically in French). I chose Monique, immediately regretted it, and couldn't shed it with that teacher through the rest of my high school career, even when I wasn't in her class anymore!
My oldest brother always called me Andrew, even when everyone else called me Drew, so I guess he knew he could just wait 30+ years for me to come back to it.
I think you drew the right name!:)
Thank you! You are lean, mean, punning machine!
In my mind, you always were Andrew so there’s no changes here. There could be though depends on what card I Drew today.
I appreciate your brookheart!
That’s a fantastic name story, Andrew. I do love the creativity of Andrew Prime and Andrewtron. :)
As a writer, I use my full name, too! I had to make a choice when I purchased a web domain. Melissa won out over Mel.
That's the other thing to balance, domain and social media availability!
Yep. It’s totally part of the name equation.
I love this :) It's also fascinating that the teacher gave her 5-year-old students the job of deciding what nickname they wanted to use in class--probably knowing that that name would be likely to stick at least through school. My only personal experience with this was having to choose a pseudonym of sorts for 9th-grade French class because there was also an Anna in the class (and Anna and Hannah are pronounced basically identically in French). I chose Monique, immediately regretted it, and couldn't shed it with that teacher through the rest of my high school career, even when I wasn't in her class anymore!
Hahaha, I like that the teacher refused anything else. Nope, you picked this one day and now you're stuck with it!
Makes sense to me.
Love it! I remember moving from Bobby to Bob in 7th grade. My Mom and sister still call me Bobby.
My oldest brother always called me Andrew, even when everyone else called me Drew, so I guess he knew he could just wait 30+ years for me to come back to it.