So I’ve been struggling for months to find a name that clicks with me. I keep stumbling on names which feel like the one, then a few minutes to a few days later the name loses its sway on me. I feel like I just have to finally pick something so I can move on with my life, but I’m really not having much success. I keep telling myself that I can change it again later if I end up hating the one I pick, but it’s hard enough to get people to change how they address me once. It’s weird because I’m very infrequently this indecisive, but this choice has me really circling the drainpipe. Idk how to find one that speaks to me which I don’t feel like I’ll regret. I’m really feeling for my parents having to name me in the first place now—this shit hard lol
Did anyone else have this experience? How did your name come to you? Does anyone have any advice for me?
I like imagined a sort of version of me who had been born as a girl when I was still a massive egg and I named her after the colour of phone I had at the time (because being in a queerphobic family growing up getting rose gold things was one of the few forms of gender expression I had l) and then a few weeks of like imagining her I watched Dr Who and I like really identified with the character Rose Tyler and so I stuck with it.
Later I realised I was actually trans and so I actually called myself Rose, it took a bit for it to properly feel like my name but now it like feels like it’s very securely my name