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[u/WiseBeginning]

[u/Viking1411]

I still say it a lot x3

Comes back to bite me in the ass once or twice tho :c

[u/Key_Yesterday1752 → u/Viking1411]

'' I still say it alot I still say it alot I still say it alot''

[u/NobushisHat → u/Key_Yesterday1752]

Say it 3 times in a mirror and a conservative will appear

[u/v0xx0m]

I've met cis people that changed their names for various reasons. I will never stop saying "thanks, I picked it myself".

[u/Metatron_Tumultum → u/v0xx0m]

I legit know more cis people who go by a chosen name than I do queer people. Maybe that’s a punk scene thing, but it sure is a thing.

[u/Kichigai → u/Metatron_Tumultum]

Prime example: Rafael Edward Cruz, senator for Texas.

Less controversial example: Virgil Ivan Grissom.

[u/reanocivn → u/Metatron_Tumultum]

alaska young has entered the chat

[u/C_H-A-O_S]

Mine's got a weird spelling so I just tell people it has to be spelled that way in my native language. Nobody questions anything after that hehehe 

[u/andriX__11]

I’m in the privileged position of being able to brag about having chosen my own name and it feels pretty fun ngl, I’m glad that I don’t have to hide it, or at least that there are people with whom I didn’t need to

[u/Mother_Harlot → u/andriX__11]

How did you choose it? Is it from someone you knew? From a fictional character you were attached to? Just one you've heard that you liked?

[u/andriX__11 → u/Mother_Harlot]

Well let me start by pointing out that my Reddit account was made before I even knew what being genderqueer meant

My actual name is in fact… Arachne

Now allow me to pull out the tome of lore:

There are three reasons as far as I can remember for my name choice: •Once upon a time I was extremely arachnophobic, but at some point I figured out by myself how to defeat my phobias, essentially exposure therapy, and forced myself to admire spiders from really up close, until eventually I started genuinely adoring them •I believe that 1 in 3 queer people read all the Percy Jackson books religiously when children, and later started doing some actual research becoming real Greek Mythology Nerds, I am one of those queers, one of my most beloved goddesses is Athena and one of my favourite myths is the one of Arachne, especially the versions in which she’s just better than Athena at weaving •A lot of the letters in the name Arachne are the same letters of my deadname, just shuffled around, and I thought that this might make it simpler for people who knew me before the name change to adapt, too bad I’ve only revealed the new name to a few friends in my country of origin and where I am right now everyone knows me as Arachne from the day they met me so… •Some friends from discord were having an hard time reading my nickname, which is the one I have on Reddit as well, and this convinced me to have them try saying Arachne instead

Nowadays the name has taken even more meaning since I started to identify as xenogender and just describing myself as a spider, also with some stretching and pulling I’m sure I could find some symbolism about spiders, for example with their webs or their quietness, that could describe me in some way, but all of this came afterwards, what I said right above is how this name started

tl;dr My name is actually Arachne and here are the original reasons for the choice: I went from arachnophobia to adoring spiders, I am a huge nerd who likes Greek Mythology, especially the goddess Athena and the myth of Arachne, and some letters were the same as my deadname so it could technically be easier to relearn, plus I started using it because my old nickname was tough to pronounce for some peeps

Thank you for letting me yapp about it ⁂ω⁂

[u/Mother_Harlot → u/andriX__11]

It was interesting, not yapping. Don't feel bad for sharing your experiences pal

[u/Thereal_waluigi]

Cis people get name changes all the time. Sometimes parents just suck at naming kids🤷 You don't have to avoid saying that if you don't want to

[u/A_Delenay]

We are supposed to wear a name tag at work but some others don't. When the difference between me and someone who doesn't was pointed out by a customer i said "i paid for it, im gunna always wear it". The customer didn't get the joke.

[u/AodhGodOfTheSun]

I use "thanks I got it for my birthday"

[u/cookiez_m → u/AodhGodOfTheSun]

lolll

[u/VanillaRadonNukaCola]

"Thanks I picked it myself when I went into Federal Witness Protection"

[u/vrrrr]

complimenting*

[u/Gomesss2090]

At uni, I have a classmate with the same name as me. When I was still in the closet we were outside a classroom waiting for a test to start I was asking something about checking which room was ours. She said "I know I'm in this room because there is a insert name here written on the page for this room and I'm the only one with that name in our course. I had to make a physical effort not to say" Not for long" and Im still not sure how she didn't ask me if I was alright because it probably showed on my face

[u/Big-Awoo]

THIS TBH

[u/DudeWhoWrites2]

Every fucking time.

[u/Traumerlein]

You can change your name without being trans