Writer's Block: A rose by any other name

[coraa]

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I already did. It turns out to be surprisingly easy: tell people what you want to be called, and they generally oblige!

(Okay, so my full, legal name is the same as my full, legal birth name, but still.)

Comments

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

People think I am insane, because I did this. My legal name is Margaret Mary Ayres. I have convinced everyone to call me Sidny (I thought it was cute to spell it funny when I was fifteen). Everyone does it. People rarely question it.

[ckd]

I believe very strongly in calling people what they want me to call them[1] as much as possible/practical.

[1] Not "what they want to be called", since that may vary based on who's calling them or what context they're being called in.

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

I just misplace letter.

[clairebaxter.livejournal.com]

I think the hardest thing is figuring out what you want to be called instead. I have a group of friends who I have fallen out of contact with now, for the most part, who know me as "flower". And my little sister tried out "Samantha" for a summer, before deciding it wasn't really right.

[rowr.livejournal.com]

I suppose I would change it if I could since I don't particularly like my name, but I have never been able to identify another one that felt like 'me'.