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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
about names... If you had named yourself as a kid
Did you have a name that you liked more than your own growing up? If your parents had waited to give you an official birth name until you could pick out your own, do know what you would have chosen back when you were 10 years old or whatever?
Because of the show "Clarissa explains it all", I wanted to be a Clarissa for a while. I also liked the name Anastasia quite a bit for some reason.
But now, I am pretty glad those aren't my names. Erin is just fine, it's not TOO common and it's easy to say/spell. Although sometimes people think it should be Aaron, and I have to correct them.
Re: about names... If you had named yourself as a kid
I've never met a girl that spelled it Aaron.
Me either. Aaron = boy name Erin = girl name.
But people hear it the same and think the spellings are interchangeable, I guess, because the correction is common for me. I think it's common sense, but that's probably because it's MY name.
I wanted to be "Megan" when I was a kid. All the girls I knew named Megan were cute and fun.
My name doesn't bother me; it's not too common. My boss sometimes calls me by my full name (Cynthia), which rubs me the wrong way. I've never gone by Cynthia (only my parents call me that, but it's pretty rare), I've always been Cindy or Cin.
Gold eye came out in 95 and then we got the video game version in 98 I think... but anyways I wanted my name to be Natalya SO bad. She was kind of a badass.
That's my mom's name, and one of my favorites! I suppose it's not too far off from your real name though. You could probably still go by that and get away with it.
I wanted to be Abigail or Zoe. Don't know why.
I didn't really have any favorites.
I like my name now, and although nobody can read it correctly, it works for me.
I'm kind of said I gave up my last name, it worked well with my first name (better than my new name) I considered going to my middle name when I got married, but it would have been a pain and I don't think I would have remembered to reply to it.
That's my full name, but I've always gone by Alyx... When I first go into jobs or am doing legal things I'll go by Alexandra, but friends and family all call me a variation (Alyx, Al, Lexx).
I would have given myself a really stupid random name if I had the chance. It's probably a good thing I didn't!