I do NOT, and HAVE not used my "legal" name in years. I need some way to keep it from showing up or being accessible to anyone further that I make payments to...especially Ebay or personal transactions to people who don't know that I wasn't born (and can't, for the peace of paternal family relations) with the name they know me as. I work in film and this is also my professional name. A lawyer informed my family that as long as I use my name (and by "my name" I don't mean the unfortunate birth certificate title) it becomes my legally accepted name. Therefore, this is the only way I'm, w/out causing family problems, able to change my name. Since they were advised that simply going by the name makes it my recognized name, that is the most I'm peacefully able to do. PLEASE...How can I make my account name on pay-pal reflect, not the name my family gave to me and won't let me 'officially' change via court proceedings, but instead the name I ACTUALLY GO BY, am known by, and would not want anyone who knows me to ever know I was not given at birth. I do NOT use my legal name and have not for years. I can't have it getting out. My reasons for rejecting it would never make sense to the most people but they are very legit and have plagued me since 3rd grade. I've since stopped using "That Name". No one besides family even knows "That Name". I have enough trouble pretending to have lost my license or making excuses so friends will go into clubs way ahead of me so I can quickly produce said document in private...otherwise I pretend to have lost it and forgo the evening, leaving my friends to enjoy the night while I retreat to my apartment. This is trouble ENOUGH w/out having to avoid using pay-pal for many of the things I could be using it for because I can't seem to change that unfortunate "birth title" it insists on displaying. My credit card and everything is all legal. I've made plenty of payments so far through this account to companies that don't matter as far as "That Name" goes, so Pay-Pal can confirm I'm legit and my payments have always gone through w/out any issue at all. I just NEED my display name to reflect the name I ACTUALLY USE and am known by....PLEASE!!!!! This is hardly a minor issue for me by any means.
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