It’s not a childhood trauma thing. I had a decent upbringing. I’ve been like this all my life. I’ll talk about people using their name to others when the named person isn’t around, but I avoid using their name as a vocative to their face.

Same thing with people using my name. I don’t mind people summoning me by calling my name, but I cringe when people use my name as a vocative in front of me. I also get irritated when people I don’t know and have no intention of establishing a relationship with use my name.

I worked in a call center and we had the usual opening “thank you for calling _____ my name is early_riser, how can I help you?” I assumed the unspoken rule was that I’m giving my name so the client can later refer to me in complaints or commendations, not because I want to establish anything more than a client-employee relationship. Also, I always use “sir” or “ma’am” when addressing clients, and hope they reciprocate that respect.

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Yes I know what names are for. Also “angry” was too strong a word. I don’t lash out at people when they do this. I understand that people are trying to be friendly when they use my name and that the irritation is unwarranted, but it’s there and I want to know why.

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    3 days ago

    IIRC in tibet people are given names when they enter puberty, so at 13 years age. before that they’re just called “child”.

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      Sorry, but, source?

      There’s nothing I can find that suggests this is true other that Tibetan names are usually regular nouns and usually given by Lamas to the family. But in general it seems kids are named on their third day by the Lama, but also before they are born. Not at 13 years. There’s nothing to suggest that they’re just called child until puberty.

      I found this, about way of life in Tibet.

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        3 days ago

        hmm maybe it was some other nearby country. i’m not sure anymore, will check later.

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      Interesting. So there are exceptions to what I said, but I think OP would’ve mentioned it if that applied here.