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It's my middle name, and before I got a *sense* of it and the way it was perceived, I liked it. I thought it was pretty. I really like Katherine and its variants in general. So I naturally liked it. But when I realized how trendy it was and how many people were called it I started to resent it. My sister's MN is Grace, so I don't think my parents were particularly inventive on the MN front. But in its essence I like it. It's a pretty name. It just doesn't have a great vibe atm and will soon be horribly, horribly dated. It flows well with my FN and LN too, I think.

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Caitlin is the only spelling I really like - I can tolerate Katelynn as a composite of Kate and Lynn, but it's NMS at all, and I dislike any alternative spellings of Caitlin as Caitlin.

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I have a friend whose name is Caitlin, and they go by Caitie with their family, and usually Cait or Caitlin with friends. To those to whom they're out as non-binary, they're Cai/Kai. I also have another friend whose sister is Caitlin "Caitie". My aunt is Cait (just Cait). She was born Kate but when my parents named me she really liked Caitlin and so she changed the spelling.

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I don't like nicknames for Caitlin for some reason. I guess it's because it's my MN and so it feels like middle names Aren't Allowed. If I had to choose, Cait. Cai feels right for the person I call Cai, but not as a general nickname. I hate Caitie. Weird, because I quite like Katy for Katherine or Kathleen or whatever.

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"That cynicism you refer to I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys."