Reading the thread about how some trans people named themselves is interesting, but I don't have too interesting a story to share. I tried hard to come up with one that would be "fitting" for me and ended up sticking with the one my girlfriend at the time really liked. I actually wanted to go with "Cassandra" but was too afraid people would just shorten it to Cassie which I didn't like.
One particular thing to note is that I asked my mother what she would name me, and she was too busy going down her "I ALWAYS KNEW YOU'D BE A BOY SO THERE WAS NO FEMALE NAME I'D HAVE GIVEN YOU" shtick, and her only input was insisting on me using the feminine form of my deadname which I made abundantly clear was never going to happen. I needed a clean slate. Years later she'd lament that I "didn't give her a chance to pick a name for me" and staunchly believes I didn't "give her a chance to" as if she completely forgot the year of her previous behavior. I should note I love her dearly and she's deeply accepting and supportive, it was just very rough early on.
What's weird is how names feel to me in general. I'll go entire months without hearing my actual name, only being called Voxandra or Vox.
