I used to be called Timmy. Nowadays, I'm called anything that gets my attention (and I'm shamefully, pathetically attentive), usually something like 'pussy', 'cunt', or 'whore', but occasionally I do still get 'Timmy'. Often this is a sign that something really hard is coming - that I'm going to be asked for my consent to something further, some step further away from the fantasy that I could ever mean anything. Some step that will be agony to take, but which both I and whoever it is asking for it know that I will be helpless to resist.
I have never learned to feel happy about being called 'cunt'; it hurts every time (hurts not in some snowflakey emo way, but because it is such a direct and honest label for what I am, and probably what I am about to be used as, when I am so called), but it is much less frightening than being called 'Timmy'.
But back in the day (can it be less than three years?) I was called Timmy. Of course, that wasn't my given name - my weekend-hippy-turned-bourgeois parents gave me the name 'Timna', which had been shortened to Timmy by the time I was two, and which I never wanted to reclaim (ironically, it seems that Timna means 'protest' - not something I am not able to do, much less permitted). And so 'Timmy' I was.
When my story starts, I was 20, halfway through my studies at the Sorbonne, outwardly a good, upper-middle class French girl, careful of her appearance, quite pretty, a little sexy, very together, studying hard, working towards a 'right-on' but successful career, 'committed' to making the world a better place, while at the same time carefully conserving the family reputation and building its resources - the French way.