I’ve heard of untie, and auncle – but I don’t like either of them. I’ve decided to just stick with uncle for now until I find a better work around.
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I am requesting “Auncle”
I’ve heard that the word “pibling is used
My coworker plans on having her kid call me Ankle
I have this problem too with my roommate’s nephew – his family mostly defaults to ‘Aunt’ for me around him. There needs to be more gender-neutral language.
We call you “Jey Who We Love”!!!
I get called Pibling (like parental sibling) or pibbles, which is cuter.
Yet another example of honourifics being specific.
Untie and Auncle must sound really extra weird with a United States accent, they say “ant” like you’re an insect…..
“Fam” works well. It’s short for “family” (not incorrect) and is nonspecific, and can be used in conversation (“Georgie, your Fam is here to pick you up” and “I’ve just got to call my Fam” works okay.)
If it helps at all, I call someone in my life who is similar to a parent sibling “PS”! So you would be PS Jey
My 2-year-old nephew randomly started calling me jahjah, so I’m content for that to be my title. I do really wish there was a standard word for parents-sibling that wasn’t gendered, though.
I came across a nonbinary cartoonist who worked out this compromise with their sister:
“Megatron. My kids will call you Magatron.”
(mygenderadventures.tumblr.com if you want to look it up. They published it years ago, but it still stuck with me.)