Social Question
Does it bother you when people repeatedly address you wrong by name or title?
My name is not uncommon, but I have had a nickname since birth (also not uncommon) that I use almost exclusively. I use my legal name only in non-social circumstances, so very rarely. And yet I know people who still insist, after multiple corrections, on using either my legal name or the common nickname for it (which is not what I go by).
I also don’t accept the title of “Mrs”, and have corrected people often on that as well, yet some refuse to accommodate my preferences.
I find it very disrespectful to do this. Your thoughts?
(And, just FYI, the nickname is absolute because out of nine women in three generations in this family grouping, five of us have the same legal given name. Yes, it is a bit excessive, and we in the youngest generation have stopped the tradition.)