Pre-Apple ID Apple support account shares e-mail with Apple ID

Hello, I have a small problem: Before these forums required an Apple ID, I made an account using my main e-mail. The thing is that my Apple ID is that exact e-mail, so now when I sign in with the latter and it asks me to create a username, 1. it tells me the one I want to use is taken (my old account), and 2. when I select a new one, it tells me the a-mail address is, of course, already in use. What could I do?
Thank you.

2. when I select a new one, it tells me the a-mail address is, of course, already in use.
When you select a new... what? ASC screen name? If you chose alvareo92 it will be forever tied to the Apple ID you used to sign in here, and cannot normally be changed. If that screen name is already taken (in this case, by your other Apple ID) then it's unavailable. The ASC display name doesn't have any particular relationship to an email address, other than the one(s) already used for that Apple ID.
More information would help - can you illustrate what's going on, using hypothetical user names and screen names? It would help visualize the problem. A workaround may be possible, but you have to sever the relationship between an email address associated with one Apple ID before you can associate it with another.
By "associate" I mean any email address used as an Apple ID, an alternate Apple ID, any additional email address, a rescue email address, or any Apple ID that has ever been created in the past, cannot simultaneously be used for any one of the others. The workaround may involve deleting that email address if it is not an Apple ID, or changing that email address, if it is an Apple ID.
I wish there were a simpler way to explain this. I realize it can be confusing.

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