Your Name is Andi

Childhood

Anni. The name given to them at birth by their loving parents.

Anni. Large, bright pink and blue letters painted upon her bedroom wall.

Anni. The first word they had scrawled in a broken purple crayon after drawing a masterpiece. Their first signature.

Anni. How they introduced themselves to their best friend.

Anni. The person always on top of their class, got good grades and good friends.

Anni. A girl's name, they decided when they were fourteen. It didn't fit them. They didn't feel like a girl or a boy or either. Anni wasn't a good name.

Anni. They felt different. They didn't know if they felt like a girl, a boy, or neither. It was like one or the other, fluctuating between them irregularly. They felt like completely separate people living in one body.

Anni. After hours and hours of scouring the Internet for the proper term to describe themselves, they finally found the right word.

Andi.

Her name was Andi.

His name was Andi.

Their name was Andi.