re: People that ask you to start calling them by a different name later in life

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The more "professional" variant is just what I prefer for written stuff, to be honest.

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This. For whatever reason, I find it mildly annoying to see my name written as “Josh (last name)”. Not a big deal, but it’s not my preference. Anytime I say my full name, I say Joshua, but literally no one calls me anything but Josh, and I wouldn’t want them to. If someone insisted on calling me Joshua, I would think it was incredibly weird. There’s a level of formality of an introduction or the written word, then there is the informality of how we interact with people we know. Perfectly normal.