Rec | I PRETTY MUCH DON‘T HAVE A NAME NGL

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Rec'd on 🗒️ how do you feel about your name? what other names do you think would be fitting for you?

I’m trans so…there’s that (I hate my birth name), and when i first came out I didn’t have a name I wanted yet so my friends started calling me a nickname based on a joke and I’ve been called it by most people ever since but I really don’t like it and don’t think it fits me at all ✨John✨ is such a middle aged man name but I feel like people have been calling me it for too long for me to change it again. August is my name on a lot of socials I just need to get the courage to get people to call me it irl

@auhht

Jun 10, 2024

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I don’t really think about it

Because if I think about it too hard it starts tripping me out 😵‍💫 My name is Annie (fully, not a nickname). It’s fine. As a kid I didn't like it because I was a “tomboy” and felt it was too girly. Does it really fit me? Idk. I’m not attached. The feedback I’ve most gotten is that it doesn’t. I have many nicknames anyway 🥰

@mossyelfie

Jun 7, 2024

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fuckin wtv dude

my first + middle name is: arabella emerson (no last name hehehe you're not gonna catch me) when i was younger i used to change my name almost every summer. i went to a super woke summer camp that would let you put whatever you wanted on your name tag and so i was bella and onyx and oliver on an on and off roation for about 6 years. eventually i stopped because my mom found out and freaked out about me being trans, so i went back to being arabella for a while, and then in high school people started calling me by my last name (which was cool, but you're still not gonna get me) and then that evolved into me going by emerson, not for any particualr reason, it just sort of happened. my mom had less of an issue with that so i just stuck with it and it's what everyone calls me now. kind of rock with it also because people assume i'm a women less so i'm #showingthepatriarchywhoseboss but TBH with changing my name, you should just do it. like people will attach whatever ideas to your name change even if it's just from kevin--> kev or as jurrastic from kevin-->gabriel so you should just live your life. names are names, i understand the signifgances and nunaces to having certain names, and i would never deny anyone those, but when you change your name, you're not getting rid of the old one, you're just evolving. IMPORTANT: in changing your name, you are not wiping your past you're creating a new future. is that corny?

@mdoinurmom

Dec 24, 2024

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no one ever pronounces my name right on the first go

which was embarrassing + frustrating as a child. As an adult I figured out a joke to teach people to say my name correctly and now I really love having an un-nicknamable name + also basically a mononym cos U have probably never met another one of me in Ur life !!