Why did you choose the forum name you use?

[Still Standing]

Ok, I had to ask this question. :) There are so many with fun, interesting, odd forum names, that they always make me wonder the reasoning, if any behind them. Do you care to share the thought process behind yours? I gave some thought to mine, "Still Standing". It symbolizes to me that PTSD is not going to take me down despite what it throws at me. By staying standing, it also symbolizes that there is still life to live and hope for better things to look forward to. There you have it. This is what my forum name means to me.

 

[Vee]

I'm not that impressive ^^^ Mine is my nickname.

 

[Muttly]

@Still Standing I think your name is great.

I didn't put a lot of thought into my name. I like dogs. I guess the other part is that a mutt isn't a breed that is all clean and polished and ready for show. A mutt is a dog with some rough edges but smart and adaptable, in general.

 

[LuckiLee]

I was leehalf I changed it because it's my nickname from childhood. My family still call me leehalf. I changed it to LuckiLee because I was worried my family or friends could find me here. I chose LuckiLee because luckily I found my guy again after many years.

 

[AnD]

I chose AnD since two of my, now integrated, parts were called Author and Death.
A for author, n for and, D for Death

 

[420kitty]

I identify with cats and I like my mary jane. Also, my area code.

 

[Freemartin]

Funny, I just posted in the gender poll thread and now I find this question.
Those two things are interconnected. I'll explain:

In addition to being a Theology student I'm also a vet ... and where I live that means veterinarian, not veteran (luckily, it's been a while since my country has been at war, so we have almost no war veterans left).

So, in veterinary medicine there's this thing called freemartinism (the term, we were told, comes from Scottish Gaelic). It refers to a female calf born as a twin with a male sibling. The testosterone the male calf produces in the uterus tampers with the development of the female one, so she typically becomes very masculine and almost always is sterile.

Being a non-binary person who really likes bovines and Scotland, I found this a hilarious nickname.

 

[Freemartin]

I chose AnD since two of my, now integrated, parts were called Author and Death.
A for author, n...

I had wondered if it had anything to do with the Swedish word ande (spirit).
Funny me. :D

 

[Deleted member 43454]

Cool names.
I think I changed mine to Dr.KnowBuddy. Not because I am an actual doctor, but I am the doctor of my own therapy and adjustment back to life after war.

KnowBuddy is a silly trying to be clever spur of the moment play on words for nobody obviously but I chose nobody because I was and perhaps still am trying to free myself from a sense of person hood. For a long time I was this "combat veteran." Who'd done this and this and that.
I still am who I am but I don't let it define me.

Now through various mentors I've tried to challenge the ego as much as I can these days. As well as maintain focus on today instead of looking to who I was. I used to have an external hard drive with all my deployment shit an I used to spend a lot of time going through pictures an maybe it was part of the process who knows cus I no longer do that and I did process a lot of memories like that.

But it's dangerous on your own I suppose. And in the end the real freedom comes from being in the moment like we all know and strive to be in. Plus I'm a bum. ;)

And I also like the movie "My name is nobody."

 

[BigBirdsSister]

BigBirdsSister.... I loved bigbird as a child lol

 

[littleoc]

I've been thinking of changing it to CrazyRaisin. I like cute, silly names. On another place I was TwistedTardigrade. On another, QuickTart. On yet another, SneakiSnek. Also Clever Clover.

But I have a hard time combining names and the human/person behind the name, so I have trouble when names change. I can't even get my binary mom's gender right. I've had a serious issue understanding identity in general, and having facial blindness does not help.

So, I may not change my name. But littleoc comes from the not-capitalized name oc. On a paranormal forum, I'm known as oc because it was short for something longer (obviously). Not an abbreviation, though, just short. I like the little curves. My motto was "two little letters."

On this site, I adjusted it to littleoc, a little unwillingly, because I was used to the name. And I needed more than two little letters. Also, on another site I was oc8 (a TALL curve!), but that was also too little characters for here. So, littleoc it is :)

Also I love this kind of topic. Nothing is more interesting than a chosen name!

 

[ninja]

Ninja was a nickname given to me by a really good friend. It's the playful, silly, goofy side of me that has fun pretending to be sly. I've always loved wolves. . . a different friend morphed the nickname into ninja wolf. I figured I'd give it a go. I think I still prefer Ninja though.