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Here's my stupid confession: I only changed my name because the name my parents gave me has letters I have real trouble pronouncing. They didn't believe me when I told them this, so the cover story is that I wanted to be known by something more gender neutral.

Now I'm accidentally ID-ing as non-binary because it was less embarrassing than having to explain time and again that no, my name isn't "Lachel", I just can't say letters properly.

On the plus side, my new name makes it much easier to talk to people. There are still lots of words I try to avoid saying though.

Confessions: I don't think adult/children friendships are that big of a deal, and a lot of kids know when adults are crossing the line to creepsters.

They didn't believe that you have a speech impediment? After hearing you talk for presumably a good amount of your life? Jeez, I guess now you know how much they actually listen to you. Sympathy.

DA. Not saying their parents shouldn't have noticed, but when you live with someone with a speech impediment you grow really used to just not hearing it. My sister has a lisp and goes by her middle name because she can't pronounce her first name properly for people outside of the family to understand, but I rarely ever notice her lisp, except when people draw attention to it just because I'm so used to it.

OP here - my mom tends to dismiss anything out of hand and doesn't really care, but close friends also haven't noticed so I'd say this is the case for me. Just people being too used to it to notice.

May I ask though: If your friends believe you, do you faux-ID as nonbinary in front of them as well? Because if so: that's on you.

In a book series I read once, when the main character feels herself about to start freaking out, she has a mantra she says to herself (using her own name) in her mind. For some reason, I've picked up this mantra wholesale. My name isn't the same as hers, but it's what comes to my head when I'm trying to regain control of my thoughts, and substituting my own name just feels forced. The character is a serial killer, by the by, which makes me feel a little weirder about the whole thing, but there's no rule against identifying with some aspects of a bad person, especially when the book is (probably) all about humanizing them. (I say "probably" because despite the murder and all that, it's tween chick-lit. Which is why I'm too embarrassed to name the series.)

Reminds me of Dean Koontz’s Intensity, “Chyna Shepard, untouched and alive.” She was the victim of a serial killer essentially, but did the same thing to keep herself focused. I read that book once, years ago, and still think of the line sometimes.

I buy used shoes instead of saving up money and buying new ones. I never tell anybody because that's supposed to be horrible for your feet and I don't want to get a lecture.

I am completely opposed to any kind of monetary compensation for organ donation (except for medical costs/transportation/incidentals for living donors) or buying organs, but completely in favor of allowing gestational surrogates to be paid.

Maybe it's because organ donation saves lives but making a baby for someone is just giving them a thing they want. Maybe it's because I find the idea of pregnancy rather unpleasant and I can't imagine doing it for someone else for free. (I can sooner imagine getting pregnant accidentally and putting the baby up for adoption - assuming I wouldn't just keep it or abort - than intentionally getting pregnant so that someone else can have the baby.)

I have no real argument to make here. It's just that when people talk about whether it should be allowed to pay surrogates, I think "Why not? It's like having a pre-natal nanny."

TBH on one hand I agree but on the other, it would open the door for poor women being forced into turning themselves into breeding machines, not out of their own free will but out of desperation and need for money and that's a creepy thought.

ayrt

That's definitely a serious issue and I think there should be laws and regulation, even covering instances when surrogates are doing it for free, and people should draw up legal contracts with their surrogates detailing everyone's roles and responsibilities and indicating what would happen in various contingencies (if not already defined by law).

The fundamental idea of surrogates getting paid just doesn't seem like a moral problem to me, though.

I read furry gen fiction.

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