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[walkerinthegrey.livejournal.com]

Hey.. this is Ariel posting under Luc's name because I'm just losing it... I dunno. I've been kinda stressed and unstable, and then I just read this book First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple and it was so much like our experiences, and it got everybody going, wanting out and shit, and the only person around who even really knows about us is my boyfriend, but he's been really unstable and can't even handle his own problems, let alone mine, and I think I'm going crazy. i really do. I'm so afraid that I won't be able to control it and that people will find out... I live with my mom and stepdad, but they don't know about me being multiple, because I try to always just be me when I'm around them, but I'm going crazy... they'll figure me out. I know it. they'll know I'm crazy.. and Nameless wants to cut again.. she wants to see the body bleed.. see herself bleed.. all of us.. .god.

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[shandra.livejournal.com]

I agree with some of your points, but I also think that First Person Plural was a landmark book in that for the first time the therapist didn't solve everything or become the arbitrater of what a good life was. For that reason alone I think it's a step in a decent direction.

Also it does depend on your definition of functionality. He freaked out and quit his job, which was weird, but he also pursued and got a graduate degree, kept his marriage together (I mean we might have been gagging, but this is a traditional marker of success) and raised his kid all right. If you're saying he was a failure because he quit his job, or cut, that's kind of harsh.

I really don't think we can toss all the "dysfunctional" people out of the community anyway; tempting, but if that was his actual experience and not some therapist writing it down for him, I say, kudos to him. As annoying a yuppie dweeb as he seemed to be. We just need more points of view out there. :-)

[forever-alone.livejournal.com]

...but if that was his actual experience and not some therapist writing it down for him, I say, kudos to him.

That's the thing. A good chunk of that book seemed... off to me. Bordering on phony. I don't know why it came across like that, it just did. Maybe it was his writing style (which I found to be quite awful).