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SarahEL

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From: Minnesota

Registered: 2023-03-09

Posts: 170

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Changing to your new name

It is only when you change your name.. that you realise just how many blooming things you have to update,..
Some of the weirder ones I have come up against...

TV licence.... (a UK thing).
My daughters' parent's details at her doctors and school...and dentist!..
My magazine subscription  (and that was difficult!)...
My National Trust membership  (and that was easy! YAY for the inclusive NT!)..
Profiles on online games and my Xbox sub...
and... my Nest thermostat account... Highlighted when they sent the monthly report that said 'HI <deadname>'  Ugh!
even the Amazon Alexa in my bedroom was called '<deadname>'s bedroom' ...

I do now have at least a bank account in my name and all my other official stuff done.. So, it is a lot easier to change these things.. but it is getting annoying now each time one of these things crops up.. and sort of causes a little sigh and I think, oh, I have to out myself again to another faceless organisation!...

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Sarahel-slang term: Coming from the Gewada region language in Ethiopia
-when two people are very close friends, it is said to be Sarahel
Ex. Those two really love each other, they are sarahel