What you're describing sounds something like what Donna Williams invented for herself. I thought it was significant that she started off her first book with a description of being beaten by her mother. Was this a demonstration of the prejudice and antagonism felt by many parents toward their autistic children, or was this a desire to "qualify" as multiple? When Donna wrote to us, she talked about having MPD, but her books don't describe it as a disorder at all. Rather, she seems to have deliberately created presences or personalities who can imitate non-autistic behaviour more successfully than she herself could. Hell, we did that, only it wasn't people, it was processes and we all used them. (Well, those of us who felt it wasn't selling out to do so *glances at black chen sticker on comment above*).
I think she called it MPD in her letter to us because she didn't know what else to call it. She said she'd been packaged with the autism thing, but that we (astraea) were just about the only ones who had not been allergic to mention of her multiplicity.
How will your theory account for multiples like ourselves or atoa, etc., who don't dissociate?
If you can find our high IQ, let us know. I think I must have left it in my other pants. Once you account for Gabriel's hyperlexia, we've never scored higher than average.
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Date: 2005-03-16 07:35 pm (UTC)I think she called it MPD in her letter to us because she didn't know what else to call it. She said she'd been packaged with the autism thing, but that we (astraea) were just about the only ones who had not been allergic to mention of her multiplicity.
How will your theory account for multiples like ourselves or
If you can find our high IQ, let us know. I think I must have left it in my other pants. Once you account for Gabriel's hyperlexia, we've never scored higher than average.