@quinn after now two people tagged me here after my adhd brain forgot the first time
I have changed my name to winter, for that I had a letter from a psychologist attesting that my father and family as a whole have hurt me and that my then last name causes me significantly distress (not that wording precisely but the spirit), together with a form where I had to state the reason for the change myself I wrote like 1.5 pages describing how my family traumatized me and that my chosen last name is one I've been using for years and my entire environment knows me only by this name, and that the change would significantly improve my life
Then after I handed that in with a bit extra stuff like birth certificate and calling them repeatedly after 3 months bc they forgot to process it, and 300eur, I became winter officially
And when I made my new ID I only wrote my new name in, so I don't even have "born as x" on it (don't know how legal that was but fuck em)