Veronica Sidwell

I am transgender, and SL served as my transition "training wheels". It kind of helped me to learn to socialize as female, and confirmed for me that it was the direction I wanted to take in RL. When it came time for me to legally change my name, I ended up choosing my avatar name in Second Life. So now my SL and RL names are the same. I don't regularly sign on to SL anymore, it kind of served its purpose for me, but it was very instrumental in getting me to where I am today. It's been almost 5 years since I started Second Life, and now I have fully settled into a new RL.