College I had a bunch of names mainly because I transferred and my name is pretty boring. My username comes from one nickname. I am from the West Coast and talked about it a lot when I went to school in the Mid West. Soon a joke went that I loved the West Coast and I was West Coast's sweetheart. Then it went to Westie or WC for short.

At the tail end of High School, some people called me "Turtle" because I liked wearing Turtleneck shirts and sweaters as much as possible when the weather allowed.

No one started calling me Mimi until I was 24 or 25. I worked at an Assisted Living Facility part-time as a cook and utility worker in the kitchen of one of the houses at the time, and would help to set out the family style meals and bus tables when needed. Many of the residents asked me my name, and I was happy to tell them what it was. One gentleman in particular said my name slowly, then turned to me and said "That's too hard....I'm going to call you Mimi." That is how I got my nickname.....which is what I go by now.

I never had a nickname in high school or college.

But I had a HS classmate who chose his own nickname. His first initial was J and his last name was Zimmerman. He chose to be known as JZimm, pronounced "jism". I reiterate, he CHOSE this nickname.

Mine is DNP, because my best friend in high school had the exact same initials and even the same middle name, just masculine and feminine versions of the name. Our friends still cause us DNP 1 (me) and DNP 2 (him).

Other than that people often make up their own nick names for me, I like it as long as I get final approval to the nick name.