Out of Curiosity

[sayga.livejournal.com]

[Poll #761987]

Oops, I forgot to put an option for indifference to your name.

Comments

[laura-anne.livejournal.com]

I like my name now (enough to not think of a creative LJ name anyway!) but I did change it officially, so my middle names are now my first name (no hyphen though, just Laura Anne). Since I dropped my first name entirely, I am now middle nameless, which makes me sad as I liked having 2 growing up - if I'd thought about it more I might have chosen some new mn's, but now I have even more names for future cats!
I also wish my last name was spelled closer to the pronunciation...it doesn't seem strange to me, but hardly anyone can spell it without being coached.
I sometimes wish my name had a more exciting meaning (I used to be named after a fertility goddess, now I'm just crowned with laurel leaves), but I like the story of how my middle/current names were picked by my family better than the story behind my old name, which was just chosen because they thought it fit me once I was born.

Bit of an essay there, but as you can imagine it's something I've thought about a LOT growing up.

[tigress-oils.livejournal.com]

may i ask what your name was and why you changed it?

[laura-anne.livejournal.com]

Sure! My name was Esther, and I guess I changed it because I got a lot of teasing at school. I grew up in a city called Chester (never live somewhere that rhymes with your name!) and there's a talk show host in the UK called Esther Rantzen...it's not a flattering comparison to hear when you're 7 or 8 (I guess the US equivalent would be being called Oprah). I imagine it was those things that originally made me dislike it, but I can't remember ever liking the name or feeling like it fit me. I've gone by my middles for almost ten years, and the reason why I legally changed it was because I had a lot of name confusion problems once I started college, so it seemed like the next logical step.