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💚Dr. Marijuana Pepsi

sidsmom — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:26:10 GMT

It’s a story trending on social media this morning.

Nothing in Life is stopping her!

It’s an amazing story!

Doctor Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck

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wishmoon — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:44:20 GMT

I'll bet she would have been just as strong had she been named Jane Smith.

Personally, and I'll bet most ppl won't agree with me, I think her mom's an idiot.

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Bri369 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:50:12 GMT

She obviously is very successful in spite of her name. Why burden a child with a name like that - it's cruel.

@wishmoon I agree with you. Her mom is an idiot.

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sidsmom — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:00:16 GMT

Yes, I tend to agree children’s names can be challenging

BUT

Looking at the story through HALF FULL glasses,

her daughter rose above it! 🌼💛

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Maestra1 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:06:29 GMT

A boy named Sue...

yes, her mother was an idiot.

yes, she is a strong, resourceful, resiliant woman! (MJP)

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cherry — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:07:14 GMT

is a hateful thing, to do something like this to a child. Not everyone can overcome something like this. It could have had the opposite effect, and put that child into a shell

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haddon9 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:09:50 GMT

I agree that her mother is an idiot. However it seems that she enjoyed being bullied otherwise she could have just called herself Mari....simple. I do admire her for being a strong woman and obtaining her goals.

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Pqfan — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:13:01 GMT

Wonderful story. Not at all what I was expecting.😀

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Laura14 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:17:31 GMT

Shakespeare would be proud.

She's in the right field. My father is a doctor in education and some of the names parents have blessed their children with are quite memorable. His favorite was Placenta because the mom thought it was pretty when she heard the doctor say it after giving birth to her daughter.

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:18:19 GMT

It is an accomplishment indeed. I know it said she left an unstable home at 15 which means the Mother may have had problems for decades. I wonder where she is now and how her life as been. The Dr. worked hard and applause to her for the degree and not changing her name.

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Sooner — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:19:40 GMT

@sidsmom wrote:
Yes, I tend to agree children’s names can be challenging
BUT
Looking at the story through HALF FULL glasses,
her daughter rose above it! 🌼💛

Some woman's poor child HAD to rise above it. She was disadvantaged because of a whim of her mom's. I don't see anything good about it. Why do that to your kid?

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Pqfan — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:24:41 GMT

It should be illegal for a parent to name their child something obviously crazy. 🤨

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Bri369 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:31:18 GMT

It's probably nothing short of a miracle that this woman survived her childhood. I'm sure her mother wasn't very stable.

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Suziepeach — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:42:01 GMT

@Pqfan wrote:
It should be illegal for a parent to name their child something obviously crazy. 🤨

@Pqfan , many years ago I worked at St Joseph Hospital (now St Jude owns that property). Hardest job ever imaginable. I would be banned if I dared to post some of the God given names (first names only) to many of my patients.. I haven't a clue as to what their parents were thinking .

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Pqfan — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:48:28 GMT

@Suziepeach wrote:
@Pqfan wrote:
It should be illegal for a parent to name their child something obviously crazy. 🤨
@Pqfan , many years ago I worked at St Joseph Hospital (now St Jude owns that property). Hardest job ever imaginable. I would be banned if I dared to post some of the God given names (first names only) to many of my patients.. I haven't a clue as to what their parents were thinking .

I can imagine!👍

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Sweetbay magnolia — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:52:43 GMT

I might have considered changing it. Who knows. A rose by any other name, and all that.

Self-identity is complicated at best. We work with what we have, and change what we need if we are able.

It's a cute story.

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Suziepeach — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:17:05 GMT

@Pqfan wrote:
@Suziepeach wrote:
@Pqfan wrote:
It should be illegal for a parent to name their child something obviously crazy. 🤨
@Pqfan , many years ago I worked at St Joseph Hospital (now St Jude owns that property). Hardest job ever imaginable. I would be banned if I dared to post some of the God given names (first names only) to many of my patients.. I haven't a clue as to what their parents were thinking .
I can imagine!👍

@Pqfan , it was one hard, demanding and very interesting job to say the least. I was a radiology technologist and every day proved to be quite different in more ways than one.

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Cakers3 — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:17:17 GMT

I thought this was about to be a thread about a new version of Dr. Pepper, although Pepsi doesn't own Dr. Pepper.

As though the soda would be infused with THC.

What do I know.

I agree, however, that the name was stupid and this story could have very well turned out in a different way.

Congrats to this young woman and I also doubt her name caused only bullying; guarantee there were people who thought the name to be cool.

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Oznell — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:33:08 GMT

Congrats to this hard-working scholar!

We all have our own approaches. I would have simply taken a literal, "sort of" translation of the name, or would have "telescoped" it, to something very close in sound, but without drug or commercial product associations.

Mary Jane, or one of its many variants-- Marijane, etc.

Mary

Juana

Juanita

Maja

Even "M.J."-- cute nickname for Mary Jane.

She'd still have a connection to the sound or the spelling of the name she'd had since birth, but without dubious associations. Personally, as a social worker in the substance abuse field, I never could take lightly a given name with those associations.

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