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choosing your own name should be the norm
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At what age should you choose though? I'm not sure I'd appreciate the name 1 year old me might pick for myself.
your name is child or kid until you're 18 and fight a bear and survive
new year new name
there doesn't have to has to be a specific age, you can change it as many times as you'd like - or not at all, if you like the name your parents picked. most people would probably settle on something in their teens or 20s but everyone's different
really I'm just calling for a general cultural respect for a person's choice to self-identify, where we all agree to like, not make a big deal about it, ya know?
there's a kids book I read where there is asocietyt that names themselves with their first words one their second birthday, i remember one of the names was "Firetruck, mine, mine!"