You should be proud of your birth name. But what do you do when your friends, your closest people, try to guilt-trip you and make you feel ashamed of it? What if they pressure you to stop using it because they feel “uncomfortable”? Unfortunately, this isn’t a hypothetical situation.
Internet user u/Moonshadow1931 went viral online after venting about how her friends staged an actual intervention for her, trying to get her to change her name. Not only that, but they also insulted the story behind her name, as well as her heritage. Frustrated and confused, the woman sought the AITAH community’s advice.