A little thought plonked into my brain, regarding the naming of Lunatics. The initial split was caused by having me answer to the formal form of my name that I'd never been forced to answer to before, in a new and stressful environment. It's been established that I will establish new personalities for any sufficiently stressful environment, and that there have been workplace personalities before. It's also been fairly well established that [legal name] is basically a different person than Azz.
The new little thought is: what if most workplace environments (particularly those I've been in) are inherently stressful enough to cause splits, and the fact that I am answering to my legal name at the workplace is sufficient to alienate me from my legal name, because she gets the shitwork?
It makes a certain amount of sense. After all, at home I answered to the diminutive, not the actual legal name. Really, the only person who calls me by the actual legal name and not the diminutive who I could not do without is the best friend. (I'm sure there are more I would miss eventually, but I cannot do without him.)
With that in mind, I now wonder what would happen if I got a workplace where I could in fact be Azz, and then some annoying kicked up. Would we retreat into another identity there as well?
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