The meaning behind screen names

Hound dog

Nana's are Beautiful
WFEN lately I've been thinking I need your board name. :rofl: Cuz I sure have been doing that wishing for the empty nest here.

My original board name was TMom. Bit obvious there. lol Travis' Mom. I was rather new to computers some 8 or so yrs ago. Needed to keep things simple.

Daisylover - both my grandmother and I love daisies. My grandmother's middle name was Daisy, and of course I loved her. :D

Now if I can manage to raise my difficult children and have them turn out as well as my grandmother's did, I'll know I've done well. :D
 

janie

New Zealand
I used my actual name. I am used to being honest with people.
I have been a member for 5 years (or more now? ... )
I think I joined the year before my difficult child left home to go to University.
There have been many ups and downs with the dear lad since then!
I tend to read lots of posts - but am a bit shy to post very often ...
I have learnt so much from everyones experiences that they have shared here. It has been so helpful in my own life. You are an awesome group of people!
 

TerryJ2

Well-Known Member
Me, too, Janie. But I love the explanations of some of the screen names here. Wish I were that creative. Or that I could remember a name I made up for more than 5 min! LOL.
 

Marguerite

Active Member
I have belonged to other groups before and used to use my real name. Then I got stalked online in a very unpleasant way. I was finally able to identify my stalker (although she never knew I was onto her) but it taught me to not assume that people will do the right thing. Some people take delight in being mean and vicious, simply because it gives them a sense of power especially over people they are jealous of (for whatever reason).

I had also had another stalker who had been plaguing us with emails by the dozen, every day. I knew him personally, had to deal with him for business reasons until I finally managed to cut ties.

A third experience - I had clashed with a few teachers at the local school over easy child 2/difficult child 2 (long story) and I wrote an article about it using my name, but not using the school's name. My article was published in a small specialist parenting magazine and later in a book, a compilation of similar articles (I hadn't known about the book). Imagine my surprise when a copy of my article was shown around the staff at the local school!

As a result - I avoid identifying myself in any way which could make me easily tracked from my real identity, to this one. You could fairly easily track me back to my real identity from this site, but that's OK. I just don't want any stalker, or any teacher I have cause to clash with, using anything I've written as a weapon against me or my family. I don't want them to Google my real name, and find CD with everything I've ever written here about them.

So I freely admit Marguerite is not my real name. But it is the name my parents wanted to call me. My sisters talked them out of it. However, I use the name so much now, that I'm sure I would answer to it if I heard myself addressed as Marg in the supermarket. Because it is the name my parents wanted, I do feel I have a right to the name. I feel the name owns me now, to such an extent that if/when I ever get my book published about parenting kids with autism, I may well publish using "Marguerite" as my name.

My real name is more distinctive, more easily identified as me. I think I'm almost the only person in the village, with my real first name.

Marg
 

Genny

Worlds Best Nana
Due to a need for annonyminity (thanks to difficult child's wacko biomom and associates), I chose the name of my beloved mutt. Genny left us two years ago after a long and happy life, but lives on in my screen name here;)
 

scent of cedar

New Member
There were towering cedars where we used to live. They were everywhere, surrounding the house and the yard. Like so many of us, when I first got here, I used my real name (Barbara) and my age at that time (52). As I told more people about the site, I realized that it was harder for me to be honest about what was happening to all of us because of that loss of anonymity. So, with the sun pouring through the cedars everywhere outside my windows, I chose Scent of Cedar.

:)

Barbara
 

Estherfromjerusalem

Well-Known Member
I think mine is self-explanatory.

That is -- until another person called Esther who lives in Jerusalem joins the forum. Then I will have to think up something original!

Love, Esther
 

meowbunny

New Member
We once had a flop-eared rabbit who mewed. At the same time, we had a cat who hopped. So, MeowBunny seemed to fit the state of confusion of our household and my mind -- couldn't make up my mind what was the right course of action so mewed sometimes and hopped the other.
 

KTMom91

Well-Known Member
When I first got here, I was trying to find answers for Miss KT's behaviors, so I chose KTMom. Added the 91 'cause that's the year she was born.
 

house of cards

New Member
My name is pretty self explaining if you read my signature and add in my 21 yo with ADHD and my 16 yo with air head disease(not a real diagnosis). My husband is most likely ADHD. House of cards refers to the fragile nature of our lives and how it could all just fall down and it also is telling about the various personalities in our house being "cards" or characters.
 

Star*

call 911........call 911
And what if you were going to Change your name?

I would pick.......mmmmmmm........

Star* pft :tongue: -

Does anyone know how to say MY KID MAKES ME CRAZY in Latin? I think I could be that.
 

mom_in_training

New Member
I am a mom_in_training. I have been raising up my son for 21 years now and still don't know it all. Just when I do think that I have him figured out he throws me for a loop and changes things up on me. Lol!! You know whats funny though, You would think that it would be him that stresses me out. Ummmm Nope, It would be my difficult child that stresses me the most. My son is easy sneezy... Lol!! Well kind of minus the 21 years of changing bunn huggers.. that now weighs a whopping 100 lbs, Yikes!!!! :) Whooo-Hooo the diaper expert here. Lol!! still a mom_in_training..... :)
 

janie

New Zealand
Star* and Steely - that was funny. :)
Quite often when I read the Watercooler I get the giggles from some of the great, witty posts. It sure lightens the day ... especially if there has been a challenging difficult child moment in my life earlier in the day!
 

Josie

Active Member
When I joined, my daughter was home sick from school for a while and watching "Fairly Odd Parents" all the time. I had a child with ODD so the name seemed to fit.
 
When my brothers and I were kids, the youngest brother (the original difficult child) used to do whatever he could to aggravate my middle brother. No matter what middle brother C was doing, youngest brother M would tease him and say "hehe, look at C trying to be cool. He's trying to be tough". So if C was mowing the lawn, M called him "big bad lawnmower", if C was making a snack, M would call him "big bad chef", and so on.

So I got the idea of big bad kitty from my younger brother antagonizing the other brother. Plus I *am* big, so it fits. And the kitty part...

...well that's because I love dogs.

;)
 
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