That's mediums. When we worked on Pavilion with several other systems, "median" was the word we came up with that was better than "midcontinuum". Someone offline told me it might get confused with "medium" and that we'd better make it very clear, so we tried to.
We really were just trying to get away from the idea of the "dissociative continuum" with singlets at one end and plurals on the other -- for one thing, it wasn't inclusive of plurals who (like ourselves) don't dissociate.
The essential idea was that a median was someone who really did feel that all their other people were aspects of themselves, or whose people depended upon one central person (whether they split from that person or not). lilairen has explained her median experience (which is not quite like either of those descriptions) here in this community several times. (For example, http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/31898.html)
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Date: 2004-12-08 06:07 pm (UTC)We really were just trying to get away from the idea of the "dissociative continuum" with singlets at one end and plurals on the other -- for one thing, it wasn't inclusive of plurals who (like ourselves) don't dissociate.
The essential idea was that a median was someone who really did feel that all their other people were aspects of themselves, or whose people depended upon one central person (whether they split from that person or not).