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In reply to the discussion: Have You Ever Wanted to Change Your Name? [View all]TygrBright
(20,756 posts)I have a somewhat uncommon name, but my family never used it, as my childhood nickname was "Sis". That was pretty much what I went by until between fifth and sixth grade we moved from the close-knit city neighborhood where I'd been growing up, to a small company town just outside the radius of the suburbs.
No one there knew my nickname and of course the school started right out calling me by my legal name. I was mercilessly bullied for any number of reasons (outsider in a small conservative community) and one thing the bullies did was to mock my uncommon name. They twisted it and rhymed it with opprobrious epithets and generally made me hate it.
When I grew a bit older I decided to change not the name, but the pronunciation.
reminiscently,
Bright