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I'm pretty good with my name now. I hated it when I was a kid though. It had a weird spelling, people had to specify my gender when talking about me, other people's assumptions that it was short for something, or on occasion (and quite maddening) their temptation to put an accent grave on at least one of my Es. Oh and the E problem. There are five Es in my full name and that was just too many. Besides the two on my first name, there's one tacked onto my last, dooming me to a future of administrative annoyance ("We can't find you in the system." "It's 'Browne' with an e at the end." "Oh, there you are.") but there are two smack in the middle of my middle name too. I spelled Rasheeda with an I instead for most of my childhood in protest. Oddly enough it never occurred to me to change it, and I eventually made my peace with it.
Later in life I learned that Andee was indeed short for something, though it didn't make it onto my birth certificate - it's a contraction of Angela and Dierdre, two friends of my birth mother's. And "Rasheeda" was indeed supposed to be spelled with an I, but it got misspelled when my certificate was redone. 10 year old me would have been SO pissed.
These days about the only change to my name I'm considering is what'll happen when
cell23 and I get married. The plan is to keep all of it and hyphenate
cell23's onto it, kind of in keeping with how my sisters all dealt with theirs. Also my initials would end up being an anagram of BRAT, which is just so fucking apropos I can't stand it. I suppose in terms of getting this whole wedding thing over and done with I wish I had THAT name, lol.
I'm pretty good with my name now. I hated it when I was a kid though. It had a weird spelling, people had to specify my gender when talking about me, other people's assumptions that it was short for something, or on occasion (and quite maddening) their temptation to put an accent grave on at least one of my Es. Oh and the E problem. There are five Es in my full name and that was just too many. Besides the two on my first name, there's one tacked onto my last, dooming me to a future of administrative annoyance ("We can't find you in the system." "It's 'Browne' with an e at the end." "Oh, there you are.") but there are two smack in the middle of my middle name too. I spelled Rasheeda with an I instead for most of my childhood in protest. Oddly enough it never occurred to me to change it, and I eventually made my peace with it.
Later in life I learned that Andee was indeed short for something, though it didn't make it onto my birth certificate - it's a contraction of Angela and Dierdre, two friends of my birth mother's. And "Rasheeda" was indeed supposed to be spelled with an I, but it got misspelled when my certificate was redone. 10 year old me would have been SO pissed.
These days about the only change to my name I'm considering is what'll happen when
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Date: 2012-03-05 03:53 am (UTC)From:Now, on the plus side, my hyphenated name is (per Google) completely unique. Unlike my prior name, which was shared by many thousands of women, as well as at least 1 pre-op transexual adult entertainer (and yes, I did find pictures. Full-frontal. So much for Safe Search).