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50c14lly4nx10u5 · 1 year ago

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i don't think some of my bandmates got the message that my Name Changed cuz before the concert i was asked 'are you excited, [old name]?' by one of platy's old friends

i never corrected em cuz i felt too awkward they had literally never talked to me b4 >_<

#i don't say dead name cuz it's not dead i just moved it to middle name designation #cuz i remember i saw a post once that i read that a name is a gift a parent gives to their child and their child can choose to accept it or #not or whatever #and i was like well i still appreciate that gift #i'll just... shove it in storage where most people won't see it 😅#50c14l speaks #i remember near the beginning of the year my fellow first clarinetist was like 'uh do you prefer [old name] or [new name]#cuz they noticed the band teacher was calling me my new name #man changing your name in high school is a bizzare experience #half the people in my grade have known me as [old name] since kindergarten and then i just stroll in the last year of school 'yeah so i'm #[new name] now lol'#but ig people started to forget i exist around grade 9 or 10 so it wasn't too bad in the end #also my old name was a common name so on my homeroom door i saw my old name and i didn't realise there was someone going by my old name #in my homeroom #and my math teacher had all our names on brown circles on the door #(math teacher is my homeroom teacher. we don't really have homeroom class in our school 🤷)#and i saw my old name; and i didn't see my new name; so i assumed it was supposed to be me and tore it down before class one time #and a teacher CAUGHT me and was like what are you doing >:( and i was like uh it's my old name #...it WASN'T; there's a person with [old name] and MY name was on the inside of the classroom on the wall near the door #and then i felt really bad and was like FUCK and lived for a week in fear that someone would find out #and think i have like. a vendetta against that person or something #but i think it was just assumed it eventually lost its stick and got lost admist the halls...#anyway i think that incident will live with me forever and my teacher shall Never Know

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