This is really, really, really weird to me. Like I call my parents mom and dad but I'm almost certain calling them by their first names is a level of casual that would be something my raised-rural parents would Not Tolerate.
I actually always viewed Greg as a pretty excellent dad, honestly. Especially given the circumstances--he lost his wife when Steven was born, his son isn't entirely human and he's acutely aware that there's Gem Stuff that he can't help with...he's not perfect, but he's trying his damnedest and I really do think he's doing a pretty good job, all things considered. Referring to your own parents by their first names isn't really a thing here (I knew a few kids who did but they were few and far between, and it was definitely viewed as weird). I meant referring to adults in general on a first-name basis. Sorry, worded it badly.
I only call my parents by their first names. *shrug* Got me a lot of bewildered reactions along the lines of "you can do that?" in elementary school.
That is weird to me to the point that, even though I am aware that this is a think people do, part of me is still balking pretty hard. It's slightly more acceptable with step parents, more so if they came into your life later, but it's still pretty odd! To quote tumblr, "okay. I mean that definitely sounds fake but okay."
Dan from Game Grumps calls his parents by their first names, and calls his grandmother "mom", because he learned how to speak earlier than normal and just called people by what he heard other people call them. His parents didn't care, so it stuck. (Me, I'm Californian and don't call anyone "sir" or "ma'am". Parents are mom/mother and dad, friends' parents are Mrs/Mr [Surname])
My parents would've liked it if i'd called them Ma'am or Sir but I didn't. I haven't called my mother anything but Millie since I left the house forever.
That is so opposite of my own experience, I can't even. My best friend and I have been friends for over a decade. I lived with her and her parents for six months. Her parents are still Ms. Michele and Mr. Roland. And my boyfriend's mom asked me to call her Anita almost four years ago, and I still can't do it. When we visit them I have to do some creative conversational wrangling so I don't offend her while also not making myself anxious. (On the plus side, this has made me ACE at conversations where I have forgotten someone's name.) I actually wish I had grown up that way, because it's frankly embarrassing to be a grown adult who has trouble calling people more than five years older than me by their first names. This is my experience too! I still call some of my mom's longtime friends Aunt and Uncle. When I was a small child I actually got into an argument with a teacher when we were talking about family members, because I didn't understand the difference between my parents' siblings and their friends, especially since the siblings' spouses were considered 'real' aunts and uncles too. The resulting explanation from my parents led to a period of time in which I was very careful to say Honorary Aunt (firstname) when I was talking to or about them. Greg is not in a situation where he can care for a child full time, but he recognizes that and he's still there for emotional support and is involved in his kid's life. I get why some people would think that was problematic, but kids don't always come into your life when you're ready for them, and frankly I would have 9000% preferred Greg-style parenting to the parenting I got.
Starting in middle/high school my mom had my friends calling her by first name. Though sometimes they just call her "Re's mom" xD Before that, she taught at our school so they knew her better as Mrs [lastname]. I still call my mom Mommy or Mama a lot, haha. I call my step dad by his first name because unfortunately dad is connected to strongly to my biological father and I don't want to contaminate my step dad with that association. xP I actually call my step dad a nickname to show affection, though.
Anybody on this thread wear a women's (juniors NOT unisex) size S t-shirt? Redbubble messed up my Rose Quartz shirt and sent me a new one for free. Since it was obviously their mistake they didn't ask me to return it, so I have this teeny, tiny, itty bitty dark purple Rose Quartz shirt with pretty pink Rose Quartz on it in a size that I would not have been able to wear when I was 10.
@KarrinBlue http://www.redbubble.com/people/ewe...fitted-v-neck&print_location=front&size=small It's this shirt, they list the measurements. :)
Random thought while listening to Do It For Her Since like, everything else in the song is Pearl projecting her feels about fighting and sacrifice, this line made me think even more about the whole "Pearls are just there to look pretty": "Deep down, you know, you weren't built for fighting" uhhhhhhhhhh That just seems to fit really well into that headcanon. Unless of course pearl is just 100% percent talking to Connie in this, but seeing how almost everything else was also sort of about her... idk, do with this info as you wish
