• @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    331 year ago

    If the name is formally changed, who cares? It’s their stupid register that is fucked up forever.

    Plus, while it would be awkward as a kid, I could totally rock that name now that I am older.

    • @Nath@aussie.zone
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      181 year ago

      It’ll come up every time you need official government documentation. Something like “Have you been known under other names?”

      Getting married? It’ll come up.
      Need a police clearance for work? It’ll come up.
      Need a Working with Children check for work? It’ll come up.
      Getting a visa to work/travel overseas? It’ll come up.

      Yes, it can be explained away. But I can see this costing the kid jobs, at the very least. Some employers might ask the candidate to explain this, Others might just not bother.

    • nevernevermore
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      111 year ago

      As an adult it would be the story everybody heard as I introduced myself, “my birth name was methamphetamine rules and I’m being 100% serious”

      • TheaoneAndOnly27
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        71 year ago

        It would be a hell of an I’ve breaker “tell us one thing we might not know about you”… “Well my legal name is methamphetamine rules”