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⌈ Secret Post #2944 ⌋

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Re: Names and Identity

[(Anonymous)]

That's really interesting to read, because my younger sister is named Madison and she got her name when in America that name was hugely popular so there's a lot of "Madisons" that she attends school with (she's currently in middle school). I'm sure she will have to go through the same thing you have gone through and are still dealing with. I don't think it's weird or not common for you to feel that way.

When I was younger I didn't like my first name since I am Asian (living in America) and my parents gave me an Asian name. In school, kids were always asking what my name meant, and it was tiring to explain that my name is a part of a phrase to make a meaning, so my first and middle name meant "Shining Star" but separately they can mean many things. I also hated follow up questions that came with it ("Where are you from?" "Do you still have family back in the mother land?" "Can you read Chinese?" "Do you like anime?" "Do you really eat rice with chopsticks?"). If I had grown up in a more diverse city/town, I think I would have coped with it better, but I grew up in mostly Caucasian communities so it was a bit hard at times being the token kid in class.

A close friend of mine is also Asian, and she has an Asian name but ever since she was young, she had the nickname "Judy" that those of us close to her call her by that name. Our parents were friends, so we grew up as friends, but we didn't attend the same school until we were in high school, and I remember being so weirded out that people were addressing her by her real name. And it was surreal when I would call her "Judy" and people would wonder why I was calling her that or I could see it in their eyes like, "Is her name Judy? I've been calling her by a different name.". LOL Later, I remember asking her about it and she told me that it was odd when people who are not her close friends or family calling her by her nickname and not her real name.