Out of Curiosity

[sayga.livejournal.com]

[Poll #761987]

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

Comments

[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 I imagine it was those things that originally made me dislike it, but I can't remember ever liking the name or feeling like it fit me.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.