I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.
It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you’re even a person yet.
I feel like now that I’m 30 something, I wouldn’t like whatever name I would have picked for myself at 18 lol
Me too lmao
I would have named myself “epic bacon” or something cuz I was a tool at 18
And even now that middle-aged, I still don’t feel up to the task of inflicting a name on even-older me. My parents didn’t do that bad. Well, my dad tried but my mom put her foot down and said she wasn’t leaving the hospital with a George. Sorry to any Georges out there.