It’ll come up every time you need official government documentation. Something like “Have you been known under other names?”
Getting married? It’ll come up.
Need a police clearance for work? It’ll come up.
Need a Working with Children check for work? It’ll come up.
Getting a visa to work/travel overseas? It’ll come up.
Yes, it can be explained away. But I can see this costing the kid jobs, at the very least. Some employers might ask the candidate to explain this, Others might just not bother.
If the name is formally changed, who cares? It’s their stupid register that is fucked up forever.
Plus, while it would be awkward as a kid, I could totally rock that name now that I am older.
It’ll come up every time you need official government documentation. Something like “Have you been known under other names?”
Getting married? It’ll come up.
Need a police clearance for work? It’ll come up.
Need a Working with Children check for work? It’ll come up.
Getting a visa to work/travel overseas? It’ll come up.
Yes, it can be explained away. But I can see this costing the kid jobs, at the very least. Some employers might ask the candidate to explain this, Others might just not bother.
As an adult it would be the story everybody heard as I introduced myself, “my birth name was methamphetamine rules and I’m being 100% serious”
It would be a hell of an I’ve breaker “tell us one thing we might not know about you”… “Well my legal name is methamphetamine rules”
Might turn into a Streetlamp Le Moose situation.