Bullying as a CHILDHOOD can be difficult, especially if your parents gave you an extremely unique name.
A woman has revealed the patriotic name she had before changing it as an adult.
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In your viral publishReddit user Educational_Team_377 explained the reasoning behind its unique name.
“My parents decided to name my sister and me after American states,” she wrote.
“They are big Republicans and lovers of America, so maybe they wanted to be patriotic.”
The original poster revealed that her birth name was Pennsylvania, while her sister’s name is Arizona.
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She pointed out that her sister’s name wasn’t that bad and was even normalized during her teenage years when Grey’s Anatomy character Arizona Robbins. It was introduced.
“I think they thought the geographic names were cool, but I think there’s a huge difference between calling your child Arizona or Dakota or Paris or Pennsylvania,” the Redditor said.
She went on to describe her lifelong effort to avoid using her full name.
“For as long as I can remember, everyone has called me Penn or Penny,” she explained.
“My parents insisted that everyone call me by my full name, but most people realized how ridiculous my parents are.”
She remembers being “made fun of and teased as a child in elementary school” because of her parents’ insistence that she always use her full name.
“They literally scolded my teachers for letting me write ‘Penny’ on my paper,” she said.
When the Reddit user turned 21, she decided to change her name to Penelope, as people assumed that was short for Penny.
“Even my boyfriend’s mom called me Penelope because I was embarrassed to tell her that Penny was short for Pennsylvania,” she explained.
The poster avoided telling their parents about the name change for fear of their reaction.
They said I was disrespectful, I was calling their choice stupid.
Reddit User Educational_Team_377
However, her upcoming wedding meant the Redditor had to admit the truth to her family five years later.
“I tried to tell them very calmly that I had changed my name, but they freaked out,” she explained.
“They said I was disrespectful, I was calling their choice stupid.”
She said her parents were now refusing to attend her nuptials and had thrown her sister, the bridesmaid, into the middle of the fight.
Reddit users shared their thoughts on the situation in the comments section.
“From what you wrote, I suspect your parents would have blown everything up and the five years are just an excuse to stay angry,” wrote one reader.
“If your parents spent 13 years of your school life trying to force everyone to call you ‘Pennsylvanian,’ I suspect they would have spent the last five making you miserable,” said another person.
“If I were a kid, I wouldn’t bully you, but I would insist on meeting your parents and then bully them,” a third Redditor commented.
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