If that weren't bad enough, by the time I got to college there were TEN Kate/Katie/Katherine's on my floor in the dorms. Including my roommate. Yeah. That happened.
So while I feel like being one of many encouraged my adolescent desire to change my name, I also think it is really common to want to change your name in your early teens. The feeling of wanting to be someone else, and that maybe, if you had a different name you'd actually be that other person. Someone cooler, or more feminine, or whose actually been to France and talked to boys.
I always saw myself as a Sabrina or a Cassandra - those girls sounded like they knew how to wear eyeliner and skirts and were probably from Europe.
What would you have named yourself at thirteen?
