CGS occurs when fauxhemian parents give their
child some kind of peculiar and difficult-to-escape legacy derived from their particular brand of fauxhemianism.
The most common legacy is a "unique" (bizarre) name, or respelling of a common name, that they are convinced will identify the
child as "creative" (pretentious) or "special" (too stupid to spell her own name). Examples of the first include "Dakota Cheyenne", "Iriniel Moonchilde", or anything Elvish or Klingon; examples of the second include "Cymberliy", "Djennifr", and "Padraigh" (unless one or both parents actually are native
Irish and/or speak Gaelic).
Other legacies include odd religious traditions (say, Raelianism, or, Invisible Pink
Unicorn help us all, Scientology); teaching the
child an invented language such as Quenya, Klingon, or Lojban as hir native tongue; and attempting to raise a non-intersex
child as an androgyne.
Your name is ... what? How do you pronounce, um, that? How do you
even _spell_ that? 'tlhIHuQ miHan'?
Oh. Do you
mind if I call you 'Dave'?" -- "Mrs. Haney, she's got Congenital Fauxhemian Syndrome. We just call her 'Stevie'.
