I’m a teenage girl with a ‘granny’s name’ & hate it – I get anxiety introducing myself & feel like my life is over
IT can be hard choosing the perfect name for your kids, but one teenager has shared how she hates her name so much she has “cried” over it.
The teen shared how she even gets strong “anxiety” when she has to introduce herself as she feels like it is a “granny” name.
Taking to Reddit, she opened up about her dilemma in a post entitled “I literally hate my name.”
In her confession, she revealed how she is called Sharon – and she wishes her parents had picked something else.
However, she feels that changing it would be “weird” due to her age.
She wrote: “I hate my name so much like I’ve actually cried over it so many times.
“My parents chose such an awful name for me.
“It’s literally so bad that I literally get anxiety from having to introduce myself because I’m embarrassed to even say it out loud and I HATE when other people call me by it.
“It’s a literal granny name and I hate it so much when people try to tell me it’s not that bad and stuff.”
Sharon said that while some people complain about having a “boring” name, she would much prefer to have been given a “normal” name.
She added that it’s “not fitting at all” and it would be better suited to a “soccer mum” or a “grandma.”
She continued: “People like to compare my name to Karen and online I see a lot of people say stuff like Sharons and Karens are SOOO annoying.
“My parents could’ve at least made the name look nice by replacing o with i (Sharin) or even Sherrin would be better.
“Im literally a teenage girl with a granny name, how am I gonna live the rest of my life being named Sharon?
“And whenever I bring this up with my mum, she just says ‘okay then you can change it’ blahblah but the thing is I’ve lived so many years with the name Sharon, changing it randomly would be so weird and also I can’t think of any other names that would somewhat fit me since.
“I’ve basically just accepted defeat at this point. I feel like my life is over bro.”
It’s literally so bad that I literally get anxiety from having to introduce myself because I’m embarrassed to even say it out loud and I HATE when other people call me by it.
Sharon
She added that she wanted to get it “off her chest” and wanted people’s perspective on her situation.
One person supported her saying: “I thought your name was going to be Mildred or Ethel or something.
“Literally no one is cringing or noticing anything in particular when they hear your name.”
Another added: “Yep, I thought it was going to be Bertha or Mildred or Agatha.
“Sharon is a beautiful and perfectly normal name. I don’t think it’s a grandma name at all.”
A third commented: “One of the absolutely truly best women I know was a Sharon.”
