A little white lie

[Lexine]

I also am two distinct personalities. Tina and I share the data bank in our shared brain, but (as my wife cogently explained) we use this data differently. We have different opinions on certain topics and view the world through a different lense.

If you are going to maintain both personalities publically, if the people you interact with regularly don't get to know both sides of your personality they will be confused at the very least, and embarassed at worst when they say or do something that is totally wrong for your current personality (name is just one issue).

Thus, at least for family, this needs to be explained, and I don't see the big issue if, in fact, you are going to be "out" to your family. I do think that it's the case that when you've been introduced in your male mode, you are being introduced as that personality. By introducing you in the Lexi mode, it is being made clear that this is a different entity and needs to be met again. How that is done can have as many variations as the stars, and that's where the compromise between the two of you has to happen so that neither of you is uncomfortable.

tina

I think the challenge is to try to figure out how Elizabeth would still speak the truth without lying because she feels unable to deal with the fact that she knows Alex and Lexi are the same people and that she's essentially fooling her relatives into thinking that they're completely different entities.

Would you hesitate to be called darling or honey or dear in public?

Actually I would hesitate considering we're not even dating and... if anything... she'd be way overly conscious about that sort of thing because it implies that we're together

Lexi is the universally accepted name for my girl side. While it might not be a big deal to some, we (collectively, meaning myself and my friends) use these names to identify what gender side of me they're talking about. It removes the awkwardness of saying "Alex, the boy" or "Alex, the girl."

But the issue here isn't about what my best friend should call me... the issue is should my best friend lie and introduce me again to people who have met one side of me already and, if so, are there other ways to introduce Lexi and Alex as two completely different individuals just as I had hoped them to be.