Why are you called may anyway
I was on another thead
Month I was born in
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Skill issue
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Nya
Genuinely I was just reading an article one day, saw something that happened in May, went āhaha thatās me :) my month :)ā. After a moment realised that that could just be my name. Felt correct. Kept saying it to myself ad nauseam for like days afterward. Under my breath. āMay May May May Mayā
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And Iāve been obsessed with hearing my own name ever since
For my engineering project that Iām working with other people:
Fir-
Fire-
Litten
Then my actual name
It took four tries
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Itās also vaguely after the fact that my grandmotherās name was Mary. My birth middle name was nominally after her, but she hated it. I donāt know how sheād feel about the name May in particular, but itās a more conventional name than what my middle name was, and she liked those. Feels like a wrong righted.
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And itās a little bit after Brian May. I was big on Queen for a while.
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Firelitten.
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And Iāve had a liking for spring and its visuals since before I had this name, so even if it wasnāt my birth month, itās fitting.
The first place I ever used the name May was in public amongus lobbies. The first place my friends ever saw it was when it was my amongus name
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Is it just your universal online name now?
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Itās my universal name. I go by it in real life as well.
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Not among my family or friends from high school. But here, I introduce myself as May.
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I took down the sticker on my door that covered up my birth name with āMayā when my parents came over. I donāt really know why. Itās on my Switch and Steam profiles, they know I go by it. My mom herself went by a different name in college for a while and espoused the virtues of doing so to me unprompted once. I suppose I just donāt like answering questions.
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I donāt know how they really feel about me going by a different name, to the extent they know that I do. Theyāve not been great about their friendsā nonbinary children doing so, which I suppose is why Iām nervous around it. But they donāt know Iām doing it because Iām nonbinary. I assume they just think āinternet safetyā. They picked my name out of a baby names book shortly before I was born. They named my sister a week after she was born. I bet I spent significantly more time thinking about my new name than they did my old one.
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I was Willow for a while. Rhiannon for a while. Catherine for a while. Only really introduced myself as the former, and only as a username, the others were just in my own head. Didnāt ever quite feel correct enough to share.
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is lemres one of your names
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