Your name does make a difference... you've spent most of your life hearing it! Daniel do this... Daniel do that! ... by the time you've got to adulthood you could well be traumatised! Even worse is when they use your full name! Then you know your in trouble! ;-)
I'm a Daniel, but by the time i was 16 I was so sick of hearing it! I decide to become a Danny instead! Don't get me wrong Daniel is an awesome name and I've grown to appreciate it since! but i think Danny sounds so much more positive and suits who i am more... So agreed even a slight change in name can make a profound difference :)
I am a Dan which elicits a different response also. I have noticed this. Nobody calls me Danny, but I have noticed that when someone wants to establish a level of peerage or want me to listen to what they have to say the call me Daniel
Please to meet you Dan :), Not many people call me Daniel these days par from my direct family! Everyone else tends to call me Dan or Danny! I don't mind my family calling me Daniel it's there right as they've been doing it all my life :).