struggling to fix what you call someone is bad, I am saying to try, and do your best.
Names have power, and can be healing or harmful, so use them wisely.

excuse that they had known me so long so they get to use the nickname, this was also an excuse someone made to call me an invalid, when I sprained my ankle.
I on the other hand know that it takes time to rewire your brain to refer to someone as something different. I struggle too, I am not saying

this person, who I was constantly judgmental and competitive with, so quickly respected my wishes, when there were people who knew me equally as long or less, that wouldn’t even take the time to listen. Even after I got married, when my partner only called me by my preferred name, people used the

even by my family. So when I was in high school, I surrounded mostly with new people, introduced myself as the name I preferred. I gave up on the people who knew me ‘Forever‘, except, there was one person who knew me since I was in kindergarten and they immediately self-corrected. I wondered why