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Re:You are not your name (2015) by ok_dad on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:06PM (#30595340)
For many years, I was known as Firstname Firstlastname, but several years ago I got married and now I’m Firstname Secondlastname. Which is my true label? I tend to go by First, a shortened version of Firstname. Is that my label?

Oh yea, also, my wife goes a first name totally different than her legal first name, so her family calls her one thing, and her friends call her something else. She’s still the same person either way.

Names aren’t all that important, I’m thinking.

Re:You are not your name (2015) by causi on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:08AM (#30599449)
She’s still the same person either way.

See I don't think that's true, at least not always. You're not a different person at work than at home? You've never been uncomfortable because you have two sets of people in the same place who are accustomed to you filling a different role?