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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I call mine as little as possible. My life is so much better without her.

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  • sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeahhh i usually just use her birth name if I must refer to her at all. Some folks weren’t meant to have kids and don they best to prove it.

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use “my mother” for the same effect, but she died when I was in my early 20s.

      I sometimes wonder if we could have made things work, or if I could have figured out stuff for both of us (we know I had adhd from my dad, but I’m pretty sure the autism came from her, and that was a post-death discovery)

      But then I remember how hard she was to live with and that I probably wouldn’t have grown the way I did… so maybe I wouldn’t even know I’m autistic at ~40…? Idk, I wouldn’t be who I am today if she was still around though, that’s a certainty.

      She never wanted kids. When I was 16 she told me all about how my sister was the product of marital rape and I was the planned companion for the rape baby she didn’t want… cool… my life in context.

      Well my sister fucking hates me and always has (because she was the golden child, first born to a woman in her 30s, hallelujah!), so that worked super well. We haven’t spoken in almost 20 years now, my sister and I. Born 11 months apart. Wish she’d just had an only child, tbh.

      I got one good thing from her though: perspective. She clearly didn’t want kids and I know how that turned out when she had them, and I also don’t want kids, so whenever anyone pushed back on my choice to get my tubes tied in my mid 20s, I was like nope. “What if I regret not having them? Fine I regret lots of things I’ve chosen to do or not do, but what if I’m like my mom and regret having them? There’s no solution to that… And I know how it turns out…”

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Norwegian: Mamma. It’s the same general meaning as “mom”. “Mommy” strikes me as a bit more childish, and I don’t think we have an equivalent here.

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    • Oisteink@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hadde venner i oppveksten som brukte mor og far. Litt for formelt for meg, så mamma og pappa, selv om begge er over 80 nå

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  • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’ve got mine in my phone as “Don’t answer”, but she changes numbers a lot and borrows phones so I still fall for it sometimes if I’m expecting an important call and have to answer unknown numbers.

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My mother just got mad at me because my sister did not tell me my mother was going on vacation.

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• Impromptu2599@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mostly just Mom

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• Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just mom

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  • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep. Unless I’m being dramatic, then it’s mother

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• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s always been mum and dad. My kids call me dad/daddy/dumb ass/fucker.

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That took a sudden turn right there

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    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The 10 year old has emotional regulation issues. Good kid but very volatile.

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• maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mãe.

  I’m Brazilian.

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• alquicksilver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mid-30s woman here, from western US. I call my mom any of the following, depending on mood/context:

  • Mom
  • Mommy
  • Mama
  • Ma (definitely can become Maaaaa at times)
  • Uma
  • Mother (usually in a jokingly stern tone)
  • Her name (when she’s being particularly deaf)

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• KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  móðir, madre, mah, a-máaaaa

  (Not icelandic, but it sounds cool)

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mom

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• Uri@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ammu

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I call myum “mum”.

  Don’t shame people for calling their mothers “mommy” : it sounds so middle-school edgy.

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• skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mamá (spanish, equivalent to mom)

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• jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maaam… MAAAAAM!

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• TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mom
  Ma
  Mameleh
  Mutter

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• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because of My Cousin Vinny, I know ‘Ma’ to be very New Jersey but I suppose it could be southern too.

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  • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s how I always imagine it when I read it too. Joel from Marvelous Ms Maisel says it almost exactly the same which just reinforced it.

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• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyám

  Anyukám

  Iccsanyám

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    nézzenek oda! magyarok az interneten! :)

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A szomszédos fost teli volt ilyenekkel. Volt mit tagelni Utazóban.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My kids call me Mom, step kids call me by my first name.

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• DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A miserable cunt. Sorry, but I think balance is good and as much as most folk have decent moms, and I’m grateful for it, my mom is top 5 worst humans I’ve ever met. I hope your’s is better.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Mutter” (= mother) which started as a joke thing because it sounds as formal in German as it does in English but it kinda stuck and now anything else would feel weird

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mom or more often her name? A diminutive of her name. I like her name. I do not think she does.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I called my mother by her name. My oldest brother started it.

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• piranhaconda@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well she involuntarily quit responding to Mom now that she’s a grandma (not my doing, my siblings have kids). So now I call her the same thing the kids do, Mimi

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• frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  mum

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• Leonixster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Momther/mumther when I’m feeling particularly silly

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• garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mom, mamá or viejita (old lady) when I’m feeling brave. Sometimes when I’m feeling extra brave (and playful), I use her childhood nickname that she hates because it’s funny.

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• xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You must be my mom

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Usually, just mama. There’s a few nickname alternates that have piled up over the years, but mama sticks for whatever reason. She usually prefers it as well, so that works.

  Strangely, my dad has two. Daddy and papa. I use them interchangeably, my sister sticks with daddy.

  My kid calls their mom mommy or mom usually. Mommy when they’re tired for sure though lol.

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• Elaine@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I call her Mama and only refer to her as my mom when talking to people outside the family. Kids call me mom, momma, mama - it just depends. They never call me by my name and I never call my mom by hers - that would be super weird and would seem disrespectful.

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• 93maddie94@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I call my mom “mom”, but now that I have a kid I use her grandma name more frequently. Honestly it’s a little easier to call her that, I have some unresolved stuff and while we’re friendly the mom term is a little much. My daughter calls me “mommy”, but usually doesn’t enunciate so it’s “mah-ee” most of the time.

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• GoddessGundy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I call my mom Ma, too. My kids call me Ma or Mama. It’s funny but we took in some stray cat brothers in one day and kept them. A couple months later I heard Maaa-aaaa Maaaama! But the kids were at school… The kittens had learned they could get my attention immediately by mimicking my kids and that first couple times I couldn’t tell the difference. To this day their meow sounds like 'maaaa"

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• Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a child, usually mother. As an adult, by her name.

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