Were You Given a Nickname or Called Names at School?

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I looked like a monkey in my younger years so was given the nickname Magilla Gorilla after the cartoon character. Others just referred to me as Toilet Brush Head.:blush:

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I was always very butch, even as a kid. My last name was a male first name, so people started calling me by my last name, as a mocking thing. I didn’t mind it, honestly.

When I went to college, I realized I could tell people my name was anything, and they wouldn’t question it. So I picked a new name. Nobody from my college knows my real name except teachers. That name stuck, and now everyone, even my family and childhood friends call me by that name. Mr. Star didn’t know my legal name until we had to apply for our marriage license.

I kind of want to change it again, but it took years for people to get used to the last switch.

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I was called by my last name even though I hated it and I liked my first name better.

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Bukes. I have no idea who came up with it. It stayed for many years. Another jerk off used to call me Downs like Down’s Syndrome. A friend of a friend used to be called Sh!tbreak cuz he lived right by the school and would go home to…well you know.

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I was referred to as “J Dub” in one of my neighborhoods growing up because my first name starts with a J and my last name starts with a W.

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My hospital friends called me Big Bob after the name on a used workshirt I bought at Sunnys Surplus

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I was called Parker in high school cause they used to say I looked like Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire)

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I had long hair. I got the occasional “Hippy” from people. Sometimes friendly, sometimes mean.

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I always had hand me downs and got a pair of air walks well they fell apart on picture day and the vice principle duct taped my shoes so I had the name duct tape

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Mostly just called a loser. I think of myself as one still. I didn’t get any nick names just insults that I can’t remember anymore I think some of it just got blocked out and forgotten over time

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They called me fat and ugly in school destroyed my self esteem

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Well they were wrong. I doubt you are a loser. :penguin::penguin::penguin:

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Curly
Arl
Quirky
Nothing that I took offence to.

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Kids can be so cruel @bluerose. You have found the right place to rebuild your self esteem.

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Thanks graybear

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I was homeschooled so I was safe from bullying. But I had friends from public school who made fun of me because I was homeschooled. I stopped playing with them.

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I was called Petey or Pete. Hardly anyone calls me by my real name.

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I’m sorry @bluerose.
Don’t listen to the losers.
You are neither of these things.

I was bullied throughout my life as well.

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As a youngster I was called Huggy Bear. Not sure where that came from but I carried that till high school. There I met some friends one of which calls me Pugsley like that character off of the Addams family. They still call me pugs even to this day. Most folk at the cricket club call me by a variation of my last name which is similar to my moniker here. I am known as Rogues!

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I have a few nicknames for different areas. At home, i was generally called bear by my dad. At school i got called Seza. Then my partner calls me chicken.

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