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Random thought: names
All names are chosen names. It's just that some of us are using names we chose ourselves, some are using names chosen by people close to us (especially parents), and some are using, and I hope happy with, old choices.
Outside LJ, I use "Vicki," the name my parents chose. (Mom wanted the long form, Dad the shorter, he won that argument, so I insist on the spelling as given there.)![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redbird was chosen in an odd moment for use on ElderMOO, and is totemic, from my first tattoo.
My surname comes from a great-grandfather who sojourned in Germany for a while.
I could change any of them, some more easily than others, but I'm basically happy with what I've got, and continuity has its own appeals. So, for some people and purposes, does discontinuity, and reading a post related to that prompted this: a name change can be a way of affiliating with something or someone new, or of saying "I am no longer who you thought I was."
Outside LJ, I use "Vicki," the name my parents chose. (Mom wanted the long form, Dad the shorter, he won that argument, so I insist on the spelling as given there.)
redbird was chosen in an odd moment for use on ElderMOO, and is totemic, from my first tattoo.My surname comes from a great-grandfather who sojourned in Germany for a while.
I could change any of them, some more easily than others, but I'm basically happy with what I've got, and continuity has its own appeals. So, for some people and purposes, does discontinuity, and reading a post related to that prompted this: a name change can be a way of affiliating with something or someone new, or of saying "I am no longer who you thought I was."