Name Change.

[deer-lanterns.livejournal.com]

I know this has been posted/discussed/asked before, but there aren't any tags so it's hard to find again...so, name changes. Who here has gotten one? Were you still happy with the change in the future? 

I've been through a lot of terrible crap this past year, and I'm making a big move and, just, starting over. A name change seems very apropos. It's something that has been nagging at me constantly lately. I mentioned it to some friends and they just laughed. Does it seem too late to do at the age of 27? I've never really liked my name anyway, and now seems like an opportune time to do something about it.

I'm broaching this the way I would a tattoo, very cautiously.

Comments

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could ever change my first name. It's not my favourite name in the world, but at this point, 21 years in, it's who I am, pretty much. It's how I think of myself and how everybody knows me. Plus, my parents (okay, my mother, Dad doesn't like it, lol) chose it, for me, and she loves it, so I'd feel like I was offending her.

I said it on here once before: I'd only change my first name if I had to like, like witness protection, and even then, I would still think of myself as the name I have now, my real name. I might be willing to add in a middle name, but likely not.

[deer-lanterns.livejournal.com]

I guess that's just it, I don't have an attachment to my name. It doesn't feel like when I say that word, that it is me.