Just getting around to catching up on ssome of the threads and noticed this post about name confusion. Sometimes it does get mindboggling when people in my real life dont know that body wise I am so and so but mentally they met me as for example Katherine but for the most part I don't get confused and so on. See my brain splitting my memories up and storing them in my unconscious level of thinknig and my acting them out has always been a protective measure so that I could continue to funtion and do what I was supposed to even if what was happening to or around me was upsetting so no matter what name that memory has been stored as and is being acted out I still answer to my biological name and all my life people have called me mary and katherine louise and so on,( since I dissociatied as a child because of childhood trauma and acting out those split off memories unconsciously happens from the first triggering experience after the memory has been split off so I have been acting out those split off memories known as Mary since I was 16, Margo since I was 10, Katherine since I was 22, louise since I was 15, gayle since I was 14, and so on) so being called those names instead of my biological name was normal for me, so there was no confusion with names I just naturally answerred to all those names. Now as an adult I wonder at times how as a child I was able to do that because I am consciously accepting that those names are actually me and my memories so sometimes I get irritated when someone in the mall for example runs up to me and says hey Katherine you coming to group tonight, Mary did you finish that drawing yet. Theres a split second where I think why can't people accept me for my biological name? and then I laugh at myself because I was the one that introduced myself to them as Mary, Katherine and so on. Then I know I have two choices tell them something like Im sorry Im not using my middle name anymore. I have found saying it was my middle name stopped questions of if thats not my name then why did I say it was my name questions. Alot of people chooise to use their middle name over their first name and in some cultures the last name is always first and then the first name when referring to that person.

But in most cases I have just automatically answered to whatever name I am called because I have always done so.

Anyway long story short maybe you can start using your boilogical name like I have done by telling those you want to know and use your biological name that you no longer are using your middle name and would like to go back to first name basis.