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Discussion in 'Gender Identity and Expression' started by animequeen567, Mar 20, 2015.

  1. animequeen567

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    I am agender. I am juggling the idea of picking a name. I know a lot of people pick new names, and I've thought of several. I still kind of like my birth name though. I also kind of want to change my name to Freddy. So would it be a bad idea to go by two names?
     
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    Online I can go by a lot of names, but I can tell you that IRL having multiple people call me different names—my original, hated birth name, my gender neutral initials, my chosen name ... it's a major headache. I hate it when people stumble over my name and then name me like three things in a row. It makes me fucking regret I ever brought up multiple names. So my advice is find one name you really want to stick with over the others, and push that one hard.
     
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    What I did was I picked a name that was comfortable enough in the short term and was pretty close to my original name. Then I started thinking about it more deeply and I ended up having a dream where my new name was revealed to me. Its a little bit embarrassing but it really fits who I am. So now I'm gonna start getting new people to refer to me as "river" :slight_smile:
     
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    It probably wouldn't be a "bad thing", but like it was said previously, it might cause some problems or explanations.

    I like that name, River!
     
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    What kind of names were you thinking of? Would you feel comfortable sharing some? 'Cos it would be easier to make suggestions if we had something to work off of.

    I thought of a few gender neutral ones, but they probably aren't any good.
    Alex
    Bobby (Could be short for Robert or Roberta)
    Charlie
    Chris (As in Christopher, Christian, Christine)
    Danny/Dani
    Eren/Erin
    Freddy (As you suggested)
    George/Georgie/Georgia
    Harry/Harriet
    Indigo
    Jamie/Jordan/James/Jesse/Jess
    Kiera/Kieran
    Lou/Lee
    Micky/Mitch/Misha