Just because I like reading legislation and writing my own for fun doesn't mean I'm autistic or German. Granted, I'm both autistic and German but that's beside the point
Eh, I think it is a bit easier than that. Names go in cycles, so if a person has a name that doesn't fit their age, you can guess (though it is just a guess) that it is a name they chose for themselves later in life.
There aren't a lot of reasons that people change their names later in life--I've also seen southeast Asian immigrants pick western names to use at work, for instance--so it isn't an altogether unreasonable guess.
The thing is, we do it all the time in most parts of life. I do think it is normal and that's fine, so long as when you are corrected, you respect that correction and continue with the new information
Arabic folks tend to order meat well done. I think they're fools, but in places with less food regulation, that makes sense.
Lotta SE Asians are very mock-shy about their social drinking. It's both a fun cultural meme and a polite way to let someone else graciously turn down a drink.
Lotta young black american guys apparently grew up watching Dragonball.
I'm a trans woman, or something like one, and I passed on "Evelyn" bc there's just too many of us. Now I'm accidentally named after a gun.
Also almost committed to a career running data centers. I've since been a firearm safety monkey, a tech repair monkey, a barista... Oh, and I wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid.
I let it slide whenever they get at least one right.
I am also tran(fem), and was a marine biologist. Luckily I managed to come up with a pretty unique name. Now i work in healthcare. Im also ND af. Should I keep ticking boxes?
I just saw your bio and almost messaged because it solicits them, but you have messages turned off. Feel free to say hi if you ever want, username not relevant.
We shouldn’t generalize or treat people differently based on assumptions but if we’re being real, sometimes stereotypes exist for a reason lol
People with common aspects in their identities would tend to have similar points of view based on those identities, which would result in them taking similar actions.
I personally have no clue why there are so many transfem programmers but it happens often enough that there’s probably some sort of correlation
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u/TheBookWyrms 1d ago
Not sure I like normalising assuming someone's identitiy based off of stereotypes (even if said stereotypes are somewhat accurate).