While it’s understandable if someone gets a person’s name wrong once in a while, it’s totally unacceptable if a family member does it on purpose, and one young man finally had enough and found a way to get back at his grandmother for her offense.
A 16-year-old boy, who is biracial, writes on Reddit that throughout his life his grandmother has refused to say his name correctly. The boy explains that he is Mexican on his father’s side, and Scottish on his mother’s side and his maternal grandmother apparently never liked his dad, who divorced his mom when the boy was seven, and it seem she’s taking it out on the son.
The OP explains that his name is Emiliano and his grandmother would often say she tried to get his parents to change the name and that “it’s a shame I got stuck with it.” But the boy is proud of his name, which is why it bothers him so much that his grandmother won’t say it. He says throughout his entire life she “refused” to use his name, and would call him all sorts of nicknames instead like “Leo” and “Elliot,” but his dad would not accept them.
But after years of her calling him something else, and grandma saying it was “no big deal” when the OP would correct her, the teen decided to exact his revenge. “So I decided if she not gonna wanna call me by my actual name I’m not gonna call her grandma or say her right name,” he explains, noting, “her name is Susan so I decided to call her Sandy.” Needless to say she wasn’t happy but the OP notes, “that look on her face was worth it.” She insisted that he call her “grandma," but he says, “I told her nah I’mma call her sandy from now until she says my actual name.”
The whole thing has caused a huge family feud, with both the OP’s grandmother and mother mad, and the mom grounding him until he apologizes. He then asks Reddit if he was wrong to insult his grandmother, and pretty much everyone agrees he isn’t.
- “Adults and the elderly don’t like it when they’re given a dose of their own medicine,” one commenter said. “Good on you for sticking up for yourself and calling attention to her BS.”
- “She has had 16 years to learn your beautiful name and it’s not that she can’t. It’s a choice,” another noted. “Sometimes your self-respect will seem an affront to others. That’s their problem.”
Source:Little Things