[ SECRET POST #2944 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2944 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Names and Identity

[(Anonymous)]

omg. This is the first time I have ever come across someone articulating exactly how I feel about my own "real" name. I just feel a massive disconnect between the name and who I am. Hearing it used to make me feel repulsed, and although I've grown out of that response, I still don't feel it is anything to do with me, it's just a label.

I've used the same pseudonym for almost 15 years. I go by this name online, think of myself by it, and some of my friends know me by it. I haven't changed my name legally though, because it would cause a lot of problems with my parents and family and I just don't see the point of putting myself through that, as well as the reactions of other people who don't know me that well. I feel like there is a weird amount of taboo attached to someone changing their name - like, I feel like work colleagues would react more negatively if I walked in and announced I was legally changing my name than they would if I said I was getting plastic surgery.

Re: Names and Identity

[(Anonymous)]

Same. For me, I feel like I haven't "earned" the right to legally change my name until I marry and move away with my spouse. Take their last name and fill out a form to change the first. Start over 100%.

If I changed it now my coworkers would never get it right. It took two years to get them to stop calling me by a shortened version of my clunky name (which I hate more than the whole thing itself). Some of them call me by other people's names still. Their heads would explode if I had to instruct them all over again, ugh.

Re: Names and Identity

[asecretchord]

Wow. I wish I could slap my name on this and say I wrote it. This is exactly my story, down to the number of years with a pseudonym. At my age, changing my name is far more of a hassle (for all of the reasons you've stated) than it's worth.