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They'll get used to it. The kid is your kid too. My family is a HUGE nickname family, which is why I consider nicknames for every name I ever think about because I'd like to preempt the choosing of one. Additionally, I am a product of my family and I shorten names myself! That being said, one of my Aunts who married into the family hates nicknames- her kids are always Benjamin, Nathanael and Josiah. We don't roll our eyes. Initially we were like "Benjamin is a long name to use all the time!" And we all do call him Ben on occasion but we actually do use their full names way more often because that's how their mother always referred to them. She doesn't get annoyed when we do shorten their names either though, she just never does it. She also calls all of us by our full names all the time, and none of us go by our full names ever in family situations.