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I hate my given name

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I have always hated my given name, it sounds awful, I hate how it sounds and for me will always be tied to a lifetime of failure and giving up, and I cannot change it.  Deed polls and revising paperwork and records, informing people seem like more trouble than it's worth.  

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  • Not post-hunting, just something  that's been on my mind for a long time. If you introduce yourself with any name you choose, nobody would care. Being an immigrant, I sometimes don't go through the trouble of introducing myself with my real name - and people just go along with whatever - it's strangely liberating. Those who know me were also very accommodating. 

    Chinese do it all the time - it's customary to choose an English-sounding name, and no one makes a big deal of the fact that Jack is in fact Yuing or anything. 

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  • Not post-hunting, just something  that's been on my mind for a long time. If you introduce yourself with any name you choose, nobody would care. Being an immigrant, I sometimes don't go through the trouble of introducing myself with my real name - and people just go along with whatever - it's strangely liberating. Those who know me were also very accommodating. 

    Chinese do it all the time - it's customary to choose an English-sounding name, and no one makes a big deal of the fact that Jack is in fact Yuing or anything. 

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