Why did you choose the forum name you use?

[Still Standing]

@The Bat-Fax, LOVE Calvin and Hobbes!!! Good choice!

 

[whiteraven]

Kintsugi is the Japanese art form where you repair broken ceramic with molten gold. Its flaws are seen...

I bought a piece of this pottery a long while ago and planned to use a photo of it for my business cards and the mental health nonprofit I am organizing. So beautiful.

 

[Innordinate]

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Fits how I feel about my life and myself and I added an extra 'n' because I like to be different.

 

[Didn’t know]

Hey @whiteraven,
That is a great story. Thanks for sharing.

Hey @The Bat-Fax,
I was thinking about how I had no idea what happened to me as a child prior to age 33 years! I didn't know. It took a long long time to remember and process it all.

 

[katz]

It's both easy for me to remember and different enough from everything else I've used to avoid being...

That's close to my reason also. Easy to remember. Yet, simple.

 

[Ice_Fire]

Hmmm, I'm sure I've posted about this elsewhere in the past, but it's always fascinating to see how and why people chose the names they did on the forum. My name is influenced by a couple of things really. Firstly, it's the title of a children's book by Chris D'Lacy about a young writer who lodges with a family who makes clay dragons and sells them, but the dragons are alive, they're, for want of a better word, real. I loved the book as a kid and wished that I had a little clay dragon too.

Secondly, it just fits with my personality. Less so now than when I first joined. But I can be cold and a bit callous and quite pragmatic, but always always there's a fire of passion and fear and upset and joy and all the other emotions inside, but it's trapped in an exterior of ice. My amazing Grandma used to say that about me too. She said she had a steel ball inside of her, which goes against the soft exterior, she knew she was strong inside when it came down to it. But she said that I had strength in the fire, in the determination, in the sheer bloody-mindedness of me to still succeed despite "stuff". Yet nobody would ever know what was going on with me and my mental health because I always present all cool and collected and in control. This forum is where I vent all the fire, where it all gets released, yet it's anonymous. Heck, the fire gets released precisely because it is anonymous. Hence, the ice that can't melt, that always seems so intact, is the me presented in the real world and then all the other stuff underneath wanting to burst out gets released here.

 

[KeepItSimple]

Enrolling in an upper division college course after a hiatus (long story), I chose my username in reference to a recovery group I attend on and off.

 

[eirecolleen]

Ok, I had to ask this question. :) There are so many with fun, interesting, odd forum names, th...

I choose mine because I am from Ireland - Eire and Colleen is the nickname those not from Ireland give me. Just came to me when joining..

 

[LadyLucifer]

I normally use my go to username for all social media, but since I'm an internet personality, I wanted to be anonymous on this website. I'm not a huge Youtube celebrity as I'm quite small of a channel (not even 100 subscribers). But still, you can never be too safe now days. As for this particular name, I chose because I'm a very spiritual person. I have a connection with devils, as I don't find them evil. I wanted something clever, so I went with "LadyLucifer.'

 

[Deleted member 47384]

I've been using Dazey as an online nickname lately, since I've recently started going by the name Daisy. I haven't used my legal name in years, because I associated it with my trauma and the people who traumatized me. I used to use a different name, but I was still in contact with those people while I used it, so they knew what it was. I liked the idea of having a brand new name entirely, now that I'm safe and in the recovery stage of my life. It still makes me giddy to hear someone use it.

 

[Marvel545]

I use this name because it is different to anything I use elsewhere & I love Marvel films. RDJ is someone who I look up to in particular!

 

[Still Standing]

@Dazey and @Marvel545, thanks for sharing the reasons for your names. It is fun knowing the "why" behind the choice of someone's online identity. :)