Why is it that many don't want to be known by their name?

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......and, pretty much everything else about myself.


i want to start over.

You're a smart guy who's made up a few languages.

I tried to make up a language once when I was 12-13 years old. Didn't succeed.

My name is Christopher Bean......yeah, like the vegetable lol. I have nothing to hide and someone would be awfully disappointed to steal my identity lol

Applying screen-names, and not actual names might encourage important objective/impartial viewpoints.

For many years, USENET allowed only real names in its discussions. Of course, this was before Political Correctness took over and triggered a counter-culture of trolling, baiting, and "Fake News".

I had an attitude when I joined and I was very much into the British 60s until I discovered this wonderful thing called Television two and a half years ago.

Richard is my real name, the "j" could stand for my last or middle names. I used to be quite concerned about anonymity, now I don't bother.

I now have my signature set to display it automatically as well as richard3700hz, my YouTube and Twitter username.

The 3700hz is a reference to the supervision(off hook or on hook) tone frequency used in the Bell System's N1 type analog carrier system for interoffice trunks.

The more popularly known frequency is 2600hz used in the later N2 & N3 carriers as well as the long distance type L-carrier. If one could whistle the tone in the old days, they could control the telephone network directly.

Now I feel lazy & so I just installed a Usenet client, except I'm not gluttonous enough for digital pillaging to point it at a server & look for anything at 11pm.

I guess that's just the way things are for someone who holds onto gaming & hacker handles for 10+ years at a time.

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1. Anonymity. I want all my crowds completely separated, both online and offline. I don't want anyone I know here to find me IRL, and vice versa. I even want to keep the places I go to online separate from one another and the places I deal with offline.
Being anonymous here on WP is the only reason I can be open about ASD stuff.

2. When I started registering on forums, I loved the idea of being known by any name other than my own. I have always hated my given name with a vengeance. It has never been me. So being able to be called by a nickname of my own choosing is perfect!

3. Even though I had an official name change in adult life in order to have a name that didn't give me shivers, I still don't identify with that name. Calling myself something related to a special interest, tells people something about me, and tells me something about them if they do the same.
I am far more comfortable being called Skilpadde or other interest related name, than I am any official name I've had.
I also prefer to call people by nickname TBH. They are more their nickname to me than they are their real name. A name is just a name they were given, it tells me nothing. A name of their own choosing can tell me something about them.

4. Security. I don't wanna be found IRL.
I have no inflated sense of self importance, I just realize how much trash there are out there.

5. No one has any need to know my name.

6. No one outside my family knows my diagnosis, and I want it to stay that way.


On my turtle forum, ever since it became part of tapatalk, every time I I have to log in a new, it asks if I'd rather continue with my "real identity". Every time it ticks me off so much. "No, for effs sake! If I had wanted that, I would have signed up as such to begin with!

I dont care revealing my name as Iv nothing to hide.