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[bacskocky.livejournal.com]

It's people liek this that cause the world of multiples to never be seen for what it truly is

(btw, for those of you who don't know me (pretty much everyone) I'm a non-multiple whose SO is a member of a multiple system)

EDIT:

The purpose of me posting this was not to bash one specific person for their belief on how they should treat my SO. This is jsut the first example I've gotten that is in WRITING of the way so many people think that a few pamphlets, a couple documentaries, and maybe a book or two and they're geniuses on the topic. They're the ones who don't see that whether someone is faking the "disorder" or not, it is often a defense mechanism, not something for purely attention. Even if it IS for attention, maybe teh person believes that surrounding themselves with a large number of peopel on the outside will protect them.

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"is it any worse than say rappers using the speech & slang they use when talking to one another?"

Nope, it's no worse. As you say, it's totally harmless, and a lot of groups have their own jargons. But rappers who use rap-slang when talking to non-rappers get made fun of too, especially if they're white-bread suburban kids who've never seen a real ghetto in their lives.

I hang out with a bunch of people who speak Sindarin Elvish, and we get made fun of about that sometimes. I know one guy who speaks Nadsat (the invented teenage slang from A Clockwork Orange in a fake-Liverpudlian accent, and I'm sure he has no clue how silly he sounds, but... whatever. If you want to hear a REALLY irritating jargon, spend some time with hardcore James Joyce fans - they'll make you wish you were back with the babytalkers.

There's always going to be people who enjoy ridiculing others for any reason they can find. It's not nice, often it's downright nasty, but what are you going to do about it? There isn't any way to stop them. The only real options are to quit doing whatever they're mocking you for when you're around them (or avoid them, friends-lock your journal, block them from posting to it), or else decide not to care about the opinions of assholes, and just ignore anything they say.

[whispersong.livejournal.com]

i agree with you. i also never meant to imply anyone was discounting others systems or people. my apologies for that bit of misconstrued information.

heh james joyce huh? i'll pass tyvm & continue speaking to the littles . at least with them i know they have reasons i can understand as to why they talk the way they do.

{J}tatiana

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

*rueful nod* Good decision. I went to a Joycean Christmas party one time, and nearly gnawed my own leg off. Kír says he thought the Joyceans were more bearable than people at science-fiction conventions, but I dunno... I think it may have just been that the Joyceans were mostly sober. Drunken Joyceans would be truly frightening.