Name change with a twist

[Diane Elizabeth]

Has anyone changed their name and then forgot to answer to it when someone calls you by it? Curious to hear the stories.

[Karen564]

I've changed my legal name & No, I cant say I have ever forgotten to answer to my new name, but whenever I'm in public & hear my birth name called, it does grab my attention even though it wasn't directed to me...lol

[Traci Elizabeth]

I've changed my legal name & No, I cant say I have ever forgotten to answer to my new name, but whenever I'm in public & hear my birth name called, it does grab my attention even though it wasn't directed to me...lol


Karen's birth name was Hey You. She always responded to it. :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

And today, any time she hears it, she perks up! :hugs:

[My Lady Marsea]

I've changed my legal name & No, I cant say I have ever forgotten to answer to my new name, but whenever I'm in public & hear my birth name called, it does grab my attention even though it wasn't directed to me...lol


Same thing here with me, I love my name too much to like not hear or respond lol. The only difference is that occasionally when I hear my 'dead' guy name,esp in a crowded public setting, I make a conscious effort to not look or wutever. I figure whoever and whatever it is can't be all that important as are most things from the past life.

[pamela_a]

Karen's birth name was Hey You. She always responded to it. :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

And today, any time she hears it, she perks up! :hugs:

Hey You is better than mine. Damnit

[Traci Elizabeth]

Hey You is better than mine. Damnit

That's true. Things could always be worse than what one is going through.

[Karen564]

Karen's birth name was Hey You. She always responded to it. :lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

And today, any time she hears it, she perks up! :hugs:

You girls really do crack me up...:o :)LOL

But yup, that too.... :lol2:

[Rianna Humble]

I haven't forgotten to answer to it yet, but I have forgotten to use it a couple of times. One poor customer spoke to me 3 times on my first day back after the name change and got three different names:

"Good morning ... my name is Robert" WRONG!

"Good morning ... my name is Rianna" :thumbsup:

"Good morning ... my name is Rob... uh...Rianna" :eek:

I apologised and told him I had just changed my name and allowed him top use whichever he felt most comfortable with that for call.

Whadda mistake-a to make-a

[Sammy777]

Nope, Can't say I ever have

[EnglishRose]

I'm cheating; when people call me by my given name I can pretend they're calling me a shorter version of my female name: "Kris" :D

[Rayne1]

I was an accountant for many years before transitioning and had to sign alot of checks with my name and I have occassionally started to sign my old name now when writing a check from habit. Fortunately my new name is close to my old (Raymond to Rayne) and I ketch myself in time and I either write over it or start a new check. I changed my name as quick as I could so that I did not have to have looks when I went to the bank in dress and sign my old name. Now that is all behind me and I do not respond to the old name any more.

[Empress Lainie]

I began living FT July 2, 2007 (I shall always remember that date, it was also the date I somehow just KNEW my name was Lainie.
That week I went to the bank and changed my signature to my new name. Last wk of Nov 2007 I filed for legal name change, and it was granted Jan 8.
Jan 10 I went into the hospital with my new name, female, new SS card and Medicare Card,(Not sure I really had the cards yet, my name change paper might have done it. Then the medical history nurse asked if I had a hysterectomy. I was there 8 hours for $8000 for my 2nd pacemaker. And they overcharged medicare $5757 and when I reported it, nothing happened.

[JoAnne Wheeler]

Yes ! Sometimes when I hear someone call me JoAnne, I forget that that is me !!


JoAnne Wheeler

[Teri Jean]

On the line of Karen and Pam I had a few, okay many, names that I have answered to but none of them can be used or printed here. LOL My given name was Terry Gene and now it is Teri Jean.

[TerryTerri]

On the line of Karen and Pam I had a few, okay many, names that I have answered to but none of them can be used or printed here. LOL My given name was Terry Gene and now it is Teri Jean.

Cool Teri. I've got a similar name thing. My given name is Terry Joe and I will change it to Terri Arleen. Arleen was the middle name I would have had if I had been born a girl (which I've discovered that in fact I was born a girl with a birth defect.)

[pamela_a]

On the line of Karen and Pam I had a few, okay many, names that I have answered to but none of them can be used or printed here. LOL My given name was Terry Gene and now it is Teri Jean.

I don't want to get this too far off topic, but IMO that's cheating. One of the main reasons I changed my name to Pamela was I wanted a name that was different from "his". To me it was reinforcement to everyone that knew me that I'm not him; I AM a woman.

[JenniferZ2009]

today at the bank i heard my new name in the background and i was all like "What?" looking around and realized no one was talking to me.

To me Jennifer is my name and that is all i answer to, well of course "Jen" and "hey you dumb ass":doh:

[Rianna Humble]

The security guy at work asked me how I wanted to be addressed now that I have my new security Id, so I told him my name is Rianna, but I have heard people shorten it to "Riann" or "Ri" and that both are fine with me. When I said that I might even respond to "Oy You!" he replied that there is no answer to that :heehee:

[Kimberly Marie Kelly]

I would constantly answer the phone with "this is Mike Kelly" and my coworkers would remind me, that's not my name anymore, that it's Kimberly. That lasted about a month or so. After 8 months now, I don't make that mistake anymore, my name is Kimberly and it is so natural to me now that I don't even think about my old name, except when my brother calls me. He accepts me, but he just can't call me Kimberly, not yet anyway. Kimberly Marie Kelly :battingeyelashes:

[Victoria Anne]

okay my situation is a bit different because I had to keep my male first name for the sake of keeping my job (Missouri does not have an discrimination law to protect us) but I have been going by my new name with my Docs so long and my wife I have not failed to respond yet but ... I did start to write the wrong name a couple of times