I'm changing my name!!!!! 🥳
Between agonizing over what to pick (which literally took years) and then working up the courage to go through with it this is honestly the hardest part of my transition so far. But this is an important part of my effort to continue choosing myself after a lifetime of abandonment. I don't like making a fuss, I'm passive to a fault and that has made transitioning feel really scary, like I'm doing something wrong or drawing unnecessary amounts of attention to myself (not to mention I'm still a little scarred from transmed/transtrender discourse on tumblr in the 2010s)
I don't know what things will look like as far as changing it legally, given the state of my country, but this is enough. I'm doing it anyway because I hated my old name and didn't want to settle for it for the rest of my life.
So, hi everyone. My name is Adrien.