Do you like the name your parents gave you? Would you or have you changed it?
My mom and dad only had boys names picked out - they honestly never considered that they would have a 2nd girl, therefore didn't have a girls name picked out. I was supposed to be Matthew. I didn't have a name for days. Finally they decided on "Adrienne" after Adrienne Clarkson - at the time a Canadian journalist most recently Canadian Governor General. I was never fond of my name - I preferred my nickname "Ady", especially after the Rocky movies came out (Yo Adrienne). When I was about 5 I built up a whole fantasy how my real parents were Greek Shipping Tycoons and that I had been kidnapped and my current parents found me in a garbage can. My real name was Alexandra. Every time I got in trouble I told my mom she wasn't my real mom and that my real mom would find me and love me and not punish me.
Now I've grown into the name, but I still hate the Rocky reference.
What about you.
My mom and dad only had boys names picked out - they honestly never considered that they would have a 2nd girl, therefore didn't have a girls name picked out. I was supposed to be Matthew. I didn't have a name for days. Finally they decided on "Adrienne" after Adrienne Clarkson - at the time a Canadian journalist most recently Canadian Governor General. I was never fond of my name - I preferred my nickname "Ady", especially after the Rocky movies came out (Yo Adrienne). When I was about 5 I built up a whole fantasy how my real parents were Greek Shipping Tycoons and that I had been kidnapped and my current parents found me in a garbage can. My real name was Alexandra. Every time I got in trouble I told my mom she wasn't my real mom and that my real mom would find me and love me and not punish me.
Now I've grown into the name, but I still hate the Rocky reference.
What about you.