> It has also seriously got me thinking about how much of *you* is tied up in your name...How much of your identity is in what everyone calls you...whether it be your real name or not...
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My nickname started out as an attempt to distinguish myself in a crowded community - for the first 3 years of my 'internet life', I was known just by my real name, Andrea. When I changed the focus of my website slightly, making it part of a huge community, I found a lot of people with my name out there. So I decided henceforth to go by 'Sosiqui' as a distinguishing thing. Yup.

Interestingly, this led a year later to the closest I've ever come to an identity crisis between the external Andrea-me and what I'd come to call the internal Sosiqui-me... but that's a long story, and doesn't apply anymore. I think it's safe to say, though, that I identify very strongly with the Sosiqui nickname. I almost think of myself as Andrea AND Sosiqui, using both names interchangably to refer to myself in my mind. But that's getting into the Realm of Much Complicatedness.

Anyway, I love my nickname and I don't think I'll ever change it, except to return to my real name (if I chose to do so).

Sosi"if only people could pronounce it right ;)"qui