What's in a name?

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Hello lovely peeps! GAIL Lowe here. There. I've said it - my real name and it feels so good compared to using a username. I feel like me again.

When I joined WA about a week ago I thought I would try out using a pen name of Elizabeth/Eliza (which is actually my official first name but one I never use). You see my full name is Elizabeth Gail Lowe but my parents always called me Gail and I have not been called anything else for the best part of half a century! (Apart from my nickname which is Wailey Gailey or just Wailey but that's another story - and it's not because I cry a lot or gave my parents hours of grief as a child, but simply a fun rhyme which I like).

Another reason for being a little incognito is that, being a school teacher, I'm not supposed to be easy to find on the internet so my Facebook page is under a pseudonym too but ever since changing it, I've posted less and less on there. Still I thought, a username is what lots of people do online so it didn't seem like such a bad move.

However what I did not reckon for was the way that using a name I'm not used to actually felt - it didn't feel like me. I found myself unable to write my assumed name at the bottom of posts or comments because it wasn't me. So I didn't write anything and that felt odd too. I'm Gail and that's how I always sign off my emails and texts. Not being able to say that felt not only strange, but also deceitful in so many ways.

I have therefore decided to change my username back to my real name because I want the freedom to feel like me. I don't want to be someone I'm not - it really is not what I'm about and living an honest and authentic life, true to my own values and beliefs is really one of the most important things to me.

So I hope anyone who has called me Elizabeth or Eliza will forgive me. It's not wrong but I just love my own name and my true identity so much more.

Whoopee do! Gail's back! Have a great day everyone.

Love Gail

And now all that's standing in my way is to figure out how to do it.........I'll get there, just don't hold your breath!

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Great posting Gail, thanks for sharing!

Despatis (Consult) is the name of my company. Des is the abbreviation of my first name and what follows are the abbreviations of my business partners.

Incidentally, my parents called me Eddy but that name is nowhere officially registered, so I keep it to Desmond.

Desmond
https://www.linkedin.com/in/despatis/

I always use my real name as a username. The one here is my name, but someone already had just plain Mickey and mickeyb so I had to put some numbers on it.

I have several pen names on websites that I write for and that is only because they require it.

I AM a real person and I can tell you are, as well.

Mickeyb

Thank you. :)

Welcome to the WA community Gail.

Glad to see you GAIL!!
If you watch any workshops with Suze Ormon she always says to speak your name with pride and authority!! You go girl!!

Nice to meet you, have a great day

Glad to meet you Gail

So, did you figure it out? I still see that your name is ElizaLowe in here. ;)

Yes - just! Hooray.

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