Foster Parents DEMAND that I CHANGE MY FIRST NAME to something THEY APPROVE OF -

Am I the Jerk?

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	Am I the jerk for not being open to the idea of changing my first name simply because my foster
0:05.1	parents don't like it. Here's what happened. I'm a 16 year old male and I'm a foster kid. I was
0:10.1	taken from my mom three years ago because she's not doing good mentally and it wasn't considered
0:14.9	safe for me to live with her. My current foster parents are the ones that I hope to stay with
0:19.4	until I turn 18. They're the best I've ever had, and I bounced around a lot, especially in my first year. But there is something that came up that now I'm wondering about. So my name for the sake of the story is writer. And my foster parents don't outright say that they hated, but I think I saw my foster mom cringe at my name before. My foster dad asked me
0:38.8	when we first met what my middle name was, and I guess that wasn't a name that he liked either.
0:43.5	So they called me Rye, and I think sometimes they tried to say my name's Ryan instead of Rydor.
0:48.7	Well, a month ago, they had asked me if I had ever considered changing my first name when I turned
0:53.8	18 to something
0:55.0	more sophisticated sounding.
0:56.7	They even said Ryan could be an idea, since it is close and they share a nickname.
1:01.2	But I told them I liked my name, and I didn't ever think of changing them.
1:05.0	They didn't say any more then, but a week later, they told me they had thought a lot about
1:09.3	my future, and they worried my name
1:11.3	would be something that holds me back. My foster mom said it sounds so lewd when said fast,
1:16.5	and they felt I deserve better than that. But I told them that it didn't bother me, and I liked
1:21.1	that my mom had chosen my name, and that was the end of it again. But then, last week,
1:25.8	they brought it up again, and they showed me these
1:27.8	articles on the importance of a name, of naming babies for adult life instead of being cute or
1:32.8	fun as kids. They told me they couldn't make me do it, which I knew, but they would like me to
1:37.5	strongly consider it, so I could have the chance at a professional future and being taken seriously.
1:42.9	They said they would hate to see me passed over
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