This may be considered an unpopular view, but obnoxious and ignorant as he may be, perhaps uzielnz has a point. The opinions of people like him are indeed irrelevant, and have little bearing on the way multiples are generally seen - it is the conduct of multiples that makes the difference.
Many people who are themselves multiple find "lilspeak" irritating as well as inauthentic. Physical children do not speak or write that way, and someone who is capable of posting to Livejournal is also capable of using the spell-check function.
It is one's own business what one writes in one's own journal, and who one allows to read it. However, to post in "lilspeak" in a public journal, to let the ownership of the journal be known to realtime acquaintances, and to expect or demand acceptance of multiplicity from those acquaintances, is to invite attack, or at least serious skepticism. Therefore one ought not to be surprised when that is what one receives.
Mutiplicity is not socially acceptable. Whether this is "fair" or not is beside the point. The fact is that telling people that one shares one's body with others is most likely to cause them to assume that one is either mentally ill or lying. Therefore, unless they have compelling reasons not to make those assumptions, such as long-term intimate friendship or being multiple themselves, it is folly to tell them.
The psychiatric establishment classes DID as a mental disorder, and denies the possibility of any other sort of multiplicity. The fact that the psychiatric establishment is an instrument of repressive social control with a long history of perpetrating atrocities against the innocent, and whose theories of mental illness have no scientific basis, does not matter. The same statement could have been made about the Inquisition, but doing so would not have saved anyone from the rack and the stake.
Most people believe whatever they are told by those in power, and will not believe anything to the contrary unless they have both a logical and an emotional reason to do so. Ignorant casual acquaintances have neither. That is just the way things are.
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Many people who are themselves multiple find "lilspeak" irritating as well as inauthentic. Physical children do not speak or write that way, and someone who is capable of posting to Livejournal is also capable of using the spell-check function.
It is one's own business what one writes in one's own journal, and who one allows to read it. However, to post in "lilspeak" in a public journal, to let the ownership of the journal be known to realtime acquaintances, and to expect or demand acceptance of multiplicity from those acquaintances, is to invite attack, or at least serious skepticism. Therefore one ought not to be surprised when that is what one receives.
Mutiplicity is not socially acceptable. Whether this is "fair" or not is beside the point. The fact is that telling people that one shares one's body with others is most likely to cause them to assume that one is either mentally ill or lying. Therefore, unless they have compelling reasons not to make those assumptions, such as long-term intimate friendship or being multiple themselves, it is folly to tell them.
The psychiatric establishment classes DID as a mental disorder, and denies the possibility of any other sort of multiplicity. The fact that the psychiatric establishment is an instrument of repressive social control with a long history of perpetrating atrocities against the innocent, and whose theories of mental illness have no scientific basis, does not matter. The same statement could have been made about the Inquisition, but doing so would not have saved anyone from the rack and the stake.
Most people believe whatever they are told by those in power, and will not believe anything to the contrary unless they have both a logical and an emotional reason to do so. Ignorant casual acquaintances have neither. That is just the way things are.