So you say je m’appelle. ‎ In French you literally say I call myself - Je m’appelle Michel.‎ French is a language that likes to flow - in English we take 'I' and 'am' and we ‎make it 'I'm'.

But being a girl named Fred in America was more challenging than I anticipated. I dreaded introducing myself to people From the first day of school, introducing myself to people became something I ...