One of the things that I didn't enjoy about the way
other kids played with dolls was the 'naming.'
They insisted that the dolls have transitory names,
a name for the duration of an afternoon.
Only the first two dolls I got had names.
Crybaby and Lucy.
I got them when I was four years old.
My mother may have introduced the names.
My other dolls and I had a "you and me" relationship.
They didn't need names to be who they were.
That is how I feel generally regarding humans.
When I am having a conversation, written or audible,
with one person it seems obvious, to me,
that we are speaking to each other and there is
no reason to point out that we are separate flesh entities.
Sometimes the other kids wanted to be called by a pretend name.
I wasn't really into that, either.
I didn't like picking out a pretend name for myself.
I was already me.
I put up with one girl who wanted to make lists of names for my paper dolls,
based on the first letter of her name and the first letter of my name.
We were sharing the paper dolls, half for me, half for her.
That lasted an afternoon.
I didn't have any interest in maintaining names for them.
This seems contradictory to my interest in names and words in general.
I like knowing what names mean.
I enjoyed going through a book of names, making a list of ones that seemed
like they'd make interesting characters, and ascribing attributes to them
by using a numerical system.
other kids played with dolls was the 'naming.'
They insisted that the dolls have transitory names,
a name for the duration of an afternoon.
Only the first two dolls I got had names.
Crybaby and Lucy.
I got them when I was four years old.
My mother may have introduced the names.
My other dolls and I had a "you and me" relationship.
They didn't need names to be who they were.
That is how I feel generally regarding humans.
When I am having a conversation, written or audible,
with one person it seems obvious, to me,
that we are speaking to each other and there is
no reason to point out that we are separate flesh entities.
Sometimes the other kids wanted to be called by a pretend name.
I wasn't really into that, either.
I didn't like picking out a pretend name for myself.
I was already me.
I put up with one girl who wanted to make lists of names for my paper dolls,
based on the first letter of her name and the first letter of my name.
We were sharing the paper dolls, half for me, half for her.
That lasted an afternoon.
I didn't have any interest in maintaining names for them.
This seems contradictory to my interest in names and words in general.
I like knowing what names mean.
I enjoyed going through a book of names, making a list of ones that seemed
like they'd make interesting characters, and ascribing attributes to them
by using a numerical system.
