Oh- it is definitely BS. I just realized that it would have never occurred to me that N****** Brooks T***** was not "the name most people know me as". I mean, I would be unlikely to be targeted with that name, but still- not my legal name.
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Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2011 4:21:18 pm PDT #19186 of 30001
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Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 4:23:50 pm PDT #19187 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
"the name most people know me as".
That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name! I don't know why this makes me so crazy. Possibly because I am SUPER EFFING CRANKY and looking for a safe target.
meara - Aug 03, 2011 4:25:22 pm PDT #19188 of 30001
I figure a heck of a lot of people know me as meara. Others know me as Indy. And some know me as my legal name (quite a few of you probably mostly only know it due to FB!) And I answer to meara or Indy in person, as well as my "real" name, so....
Amy - Aug 03, 2011 4:32:25 pm PDT #19189 of 30001
Because books.
That just so explictly doesn't mean your legal name!
Right? My grandfather's name was Howard, and I didn't know it until I was in high school because everyone (my grandmother, everyone!) called him Pete. A nurse nicknamed Repeat when he was a kid in the hospital, and it stuck. He was Pete Lastname to the world. I thought his name was actually Peter.
SailAweigh - Aug 03, 2011 4:35:20 pm PDT #19190 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yeah. My dad's first name is Dornis. Nobody calls him Dornis; his name is Bud to everyone who knows him. Would they make him use Dornis? It would be stupid.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 4:35:53 pm PDT #19191 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Let me not get started with the non-canonicity of the names of my family. My parents were insistent that we just get the one, and now sis is calling herself Savannah La Mar like it's nobody's business.
flea - Aug 03, 2011 4:37:14 pm PDT #19192 of 30001
information libertarian
Dornis is an awesome name (okay, weird, but awesome)! Is it from another language?
Similarly, my grandfather's first name is Ormon. He was known as Eddie as a child, and acquired Sam as a nickname in the navy. He's Sam to everyone but official documents, and has been since 1944 or so.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2011 4:38:03 pm PDT #19193 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
It sounds more like if they decide you are using a Pseudonym, they ask for proof of your name.
I was reading that it was affecting Asian people who use an American first name. So Leah Cheong gets asked to produce ID, but her "real" name is Li-Ya Cheong
ETA: I think part of the kerfluffle is that in the past, if you came up with a reasonable sounding name (like Sophia Brooks), they did not investigate further. This seems like a hunt to root out even non-obvious real names.
beekaytee - Aug 03, 2011 4:38:27 pm PDT #19194 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Wow, if one can have a common law name, my old board name would be it. I was known _exclusively_ by that name for 28 years. There are people in this world who will never call me anything else.
google+ would be useless to me if I could not include it.
Huh.
Anne W. - Aug 03, 2011 4:40:58 pm PDT #19195 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
My dad had 'Henry' on his birth certificate, but was always called 'Harry.'
Then, some heinous grade school principal insisted on him being called 'Henry' at school despite my his and my grandmother's protests. After all, 'Henry' was his legal name.
My grandmother (who was seventeen kinds of awesome), went and got my dad's name legally changed to 'Harry.' She then informed the principal that she expected her son to be called by his real name from that point forward.