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- A woman says she walked out of a dinner with her stepmother after being called the wrong name
- In a post on Reddit, the woman writes that her stepmom “has always called me the wrong name, like, not even close to my real one”
- “I’ve corrected her dozens of times over the years, and she laughs it off like it’s a joke,” she adds
A woman says she walked out of a dinner with her stepmother after being called the wrong name.
In a post shared to Reddit, the woman writes that her dad “remarried when I was a teen.”
“His wife (50s female) has always called me the wrong name, like, not even close to my real one. I’ve corrected her dozens of times over the years, and she laughs it off like it’s a joke,” she adds.
From the post: “Last week at dinner she did it again, in front of extended family. Everyone laughed, and I just felt humiliated and dismissed. I quietly excused myself and left.”
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But excusing herself only caused further drama, she adds.
“My dad later called me dramatic and said I embarrassed his wife over ‘a harmless slip-up,’ ” she writes. “But I don’t think it’s harmless when it’s been going on for years.”
She ends her post with a question to the internet: “Am I overreacting?”
Other Reddit users are weighing in with similar stories.
Writes one commenter: “There was a person in my life who intentionally mispronounced my name. Each time we interacted, my husband would make a point of saying my name correctly, only to have the person reply with the mispronunciation. We don’t interact with that person [anymore].”
“A person’s name is the bedrock foundation of their identity,” the commenter adds. “A person who refuses to acknowledge it is denying their personhood, their basic self. It’s unconscionably rude and should never be tolerated. To ask someone to tolerate it for years? Absolutely absurd.”
The commenter adds that the poster should demand an apology and, if she doesn’t get one, “you don’t need to worry about going over there for Sunday dinner anymore.”
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