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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 half puerto rican and i do think a lot about how me and all my siblings got traditionally white names, but that's a conversation for my therapist brendan makes enough sense. gets misspelled enough though. but one time recently... i went to see a movie with my friend PJ, which stands for paris june. she was the ticket holder but i arrived first. i asked the guy if he could just scan one ticket, he asked if i was the ticket holder, and i said no, and he said he could only scan the ticket holder in first, to which i replied that i am the ticket holder. so he scanned my ticket, looked at the screen that comes up for amc stubs members, and he looks at me and says "your name is paris?" and i say "it's pj" and he waves me through, and to this day i struggle with the fact that i could believably be called paris (or he didn't care), and i have to stop myself from giving paris out as a fake name at bars because who the hell is named paris

@brendanooooo

Jun 8, 2024

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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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not learning my name

apparently, to most americans, they don’t like to embrace names that they aren’t used to, and sometimes dub you a nickname they haven’t earned the right to or didn’t offer in the first place. i learned your name *checks notes* phil, you can learn mine too!

@anania00

2d ago

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“i’ve met a lot of jules’s,

but YOU are jules.” my name is fairly common, which is unfortunate given that i have a hyper-individuality complex that rules my life (not a trait to brag about- very aware that i am just like other girls and that is something to be proud of. just a product of being outcasted/coping mechanism). this was really cool to hear and i think about it a lot. not quite sure what about it hit the mark, but was surely special to me.