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39. Yes. I always hated my first name. Ugly sounding, unusual spelling, just awful. It didn't help that
Tue May 28, 2019, 01:22 PM
May 2019

it was the only name given to me so I was stuck. What are parents thinking when they burden their kids with "unique" misspelled names? I had to spend my childhood explaining it. I was sick of it by the time I was in Kindergarten and dreaded to be asked "what is your name? I'd answer, just to be told "WHAT?!?!?!"

And my last name...my father stopped being part of my life before I became a toddler, so there is no connection there.

Yea. Several times rpannier May 2019 #1
I was named to honor a devotion to the patron saint of barren women Xipe Totec May 2019 #2
Do you realize how much your story reminds me of the story of Isaac? ProudLib72 May 2019 #8
No, I love my name. IrishEyes May 2019 #3
My first and middle name work really well together in French ProudLib72 May 2019 #9
I will worry about it when the time comes. IrishEyes May 2019 #25
It's not been requisite for a woman to change her name PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #57
Honestly, I don't see the point in women changing their name to their husband's ProudLib72 May 2019 #70
Right. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #71
My late wife kept her surname 40+ years ago (with my support, fwiw). Dale Neiburg May 2019 #77
Here's what we did. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #78
My dad named us. MFM008 May 2019 #4
Yes. To spite my father. Cartoonist May 2019 #5
First and Middle, no. But have wanted to take my mother's last name for a long time. Lady Freedom Returns May 2019 #6
Everyone should occasionally use their drag queen name. Funtatlaguy May 2019 #7
Maggie Tanglewood here ProudLib72 May 2019 #10
Stinky 37th??? Nah, no thanks. ret5hd May 2019 #18
Oh hell yea, you should. I'd ride that train. Lol. Funtatlaguy May 2019 #24
Guess I should be glad I wasn't raised on 69th. ret5hd May 2019 #27
Classic. Funtatlaguy May 2019 #29
... happybird May 2019 #28
Barney Adams. Harker May 2019 #35
"Simone Sixth" missingthebigdog May 2019 #55
Myrtle Eightieth? Yeah, that'll work. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #59
Red Olive? Codeine May 2019 #60
Many times when I was young... uriel1972 May 2019 #11
I'll just say 'yes' and let it go at that. But -- madamesilverspurs May 2019 #12
When I was five I did change my name Brother Buzz May 2019 #13
I DID change my name! Laffy Kat May 2019 #14
Your story is very much like mine lillypaddle May 2019 #22
I like my name. no_hypocrisy May 2019 #15
Yes... Mike Nelson May 2019 #16
My Starbucks name is Thayrone. safeinOhio May 2019 #17
LOL lillypaddle May 2019 #21
I likely will. Harker May 2019 #19
I did change my name in the early 1970s lillypaddle May 2019 #20
Love your story. Laffy Kat May 2019 #23
And me, yours lillypaddle May 2019 #32
Yes, in 6th grade. TygrBright May 2019 #26
That story is all too familiar to me ProudLib72 May 2019 #31
In 1922 my gran was a pregnant single LakeArenal May 2019 #30
Yep. I was a Dick. OxQQme May 2019 #33
Love to get rid of ex-husband's name. Irishxs May 2019 #34
Yes. When I was a kid I couldn't stand my first name. raccoon May 2019 #36
Kind of... flotsam May 2019 #37
I insist I have two different "street" names and one CB Handle TlalocW May 2019 #38
Yes. I always hated my first name. Ugly sounding, unusual spelling, just awful. It didn't help that lunamagica May 2019 #39
But you didn't change it? Just accepted it eventually? ProudLib72 May 2019 #40
Orphie? I can't even...I did change it No one who didn't know me as a child even knows that name lunamagica May 2019 #41
When I was about to enter high school OriginalGeek May 2019 #42
WTF? Why would they ask and then change it anyway? ProudLib72 May 2019 #43
Because that mother fucker is an asshole OriginalGeek May 2019 #44
Ok, now I get it. The last name of your biological father ProudLib72 May 2019 #45
I got over the physical abuse long ago OriginalGeek May 2019 #46
you're an awesome fella, OriginalGeek Skittles May 2019 #50
:) OriginalGeek May 2019 #66
In "Funeral in Berlin" Harker May 2019 #47
Rock Hunter? Wasn't he a geologist? ProudLib72 May 2019 #48
Yes. He was taken for granite. Harker May 2019 #49
LOL. Really cute! nt Ilsa May 2019 #51
Have to shift a lot of ore Harker May 2019 #52
Your story is my story Codeine May 2019 #61
"stepfucker" OriginalGeek May 2019 #67
Yes, when I received US citizenship at140 May 2019 #53
when people hear my name NJCher May 2019 #54
I am thinking of changing to Sneederhunk. Sneederbunk May 2019 #56
No, never. I have always loved my real first and last name. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #58
Nope TexasBushwhacker May 2019 #62
No, I like my name so much I didn change it when I got married csziggy May 2019 #63
Oh, gawd, only all my life. Still do. 3catwoman3 May 2019 #64
I like your rejoinder. Shut him up ProudLib72 May 2019 #74
It was a moment of triumph that I still... 3catwoman3 May 2019 #75
My first name is boring and ordinary. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #65
I share my name with a halfway decent Codeine May 2019 #68
That's true - my last name is also boring and ordinary, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #69
My married last name is a female first name too. nolabear May 2019 #72
Nope. Love my name. Always have. First, Middle, Last. It flows. Solly Mack May 2019 #73
Yes. MontanaMama May 2019 #76
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