An interesting thing happened to me in a chat room. I don't frequent them much, I find it too confusing to keep track of a conversation...
Anyway I said "hi" and the lovely people there said hi back....usually "hi sophies".

One person said "hi, person who identifies as someone's mom" (it was simply off the cuff and completely harmless)......I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
It was like some kind of wonderful/terrible revelation to me. It seriously gave me food for thought...

When I joined this forum, I identified myself, completely without thinking, as someone's mom....

The funny thing is, I have four wonderful children, and Sophie is the name of my dog....

So it's a kind of funny/sad/pathetic/ "aha" moment.

I'm thinking of changing it.

And I'm wondering if you all thought about your user names and whether you find them to be revealing...