OMFG 😭
The first time my dad called me that…I nearly cried. Only to immediately go back to the old way of calling me 🙃
Oh well. He tries…

Source is Modern Transfem (source)

  • Titanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Only fair for many to code Your persona as old deadname self, swapping, going against lifetime habits, it’s not easy for our families and friends to swap that. Have to give them time, if only they trying, it’s awesome.

    Gz on having friends in them.

    • ShadowOfMiisha (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      Yeah, it’s just…throughout my childhood, he kept telling me how he’d always unconditionally support me, no matter who I grew up to be. He’s known for more than a year now. He’s paying for my SRS for fuck’s sake. He’s supportive. And yet…he still struggles with it so much. It hurts.

      But I guess I get it. I mean, he is sponsoring my life-changing surgery and to be clear, I’m nothing but grateful. I should shut up, I’m just a spoiled brat anyway…

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        15 hours ago

        It doesn’t make it okay or excuse a single iota of missing effort but it’s not that surprising.

        If your father is anything like my friends who are parents then you have probably been one of his favourite topics of conversation for as long as you have been alive.

        One thing I just didn’t get until getting older is that my friends mention their kids and what they have been up to in at least every conversation, which means their names and pronouns have been said a lot and have worn a deep groove into the parent’s automatic though processes.

        Don’t let it slide and correcting him; you deserve to be referred to in the way you choose, but also try not to let his words hurt you any more than you have to.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Man I have a hard enough time remembering people’s names, if someone changes names and gender on me im gonna die

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        2 hours ago

        I find my badness with names is good for this actually, I have genuinely forgotten many of my friends deadnames.

      • Titanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 day ago

        Man Yourself. I’m a fox

        If someone changes names daily, well, it may be messy. Most of us do big change once per life, picking own name… it’s not exactly our faults, our parents gave us wrong one (even if based on their best wishes).

      • Seralth@piefed.seralth.com
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        Yeah… i barely remembers names as is. The few times someones changed their name on me be it because of transitioning or just for legal reasons i just stright tell them the best they are getting out of me is possibly odd and indirect noises as my brain fries trying to figure out how names work.

        Over all it works well enough. Tho the smell of burnt toast isn’t great.