We agree in thinking there is overlap; see this thread (http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/201280.html)...
"Dissociation" is something alien to us. We heard about kids leaving their bodies when bullied, and we've often tried in situations like that, but it didn't work.
About IQ - we're what is called "gifted", but we don't believe autism makes you more likely to be that (though it may have something to do with the kind of intelligence/thinking/learning style someone has). In our opinion that idea is an overcompensation for the common view that more autistics than normals are below average in intelligence.
As far as we know none of our real people are based on compensation strategies to be more NT-like. What does happen is that the brain does a certain thing, like having trouble with speech for some reason, and someone comes out who doesn't speak, and handles it much better than someone who would keep trying to speak and feel isolated when it didn't work.
We've gone from calling certain things "states" and "modes" to calling them "people"; we have no idea whether they started as states and developed into people, or started as people (maybe the "subpersonalities" everybody is supposed to have) who brought these states with them somehow, or started as people and became associated with certain states (like in the above example).
As to what you said in asperger about a "crisis mode" (here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/asperger/491396.html?thread=6743428#t6743428)), in my/our opinion that isn't really a sign of multiplicity; it would almost be abnormal not to have it. Many autistics function in that mode way too much, which causes burnout (see this (http://www.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html#burnout)).
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"Dissociation" is something alien to us. We heard about kids leaving their bodies when bullied, and we've often tried in situations like that, but it didn't work.
About IQ - we're what is called "gifted", but we don't believe autism makes you more likely to be that (though it may have something to do with the kind of intelligence/thinking/learning style someone has). In our opinion that idea is an overcompensation for the common view that more autistics than normals are below average in intelligence.
As far as we know none of our real people are based on compensation strategies to be more NT-like. What does happen is that the brain does a certain thing, like having trouble with speech for some reason, and someone comes out who doesn't speak, and handles it much better than someone who would keep trying to speak and feel isolated when it didn't work.
We've gone from calling certain things "states" and "modes" to calling them "people"; we have no idea whether they started as states and developed into people, or started as people (maybe the "subpersonalities" everybody is supposed to have) who brought these states with them somehow, or started as people and became associated with certain states (like in the above example).
As to what you said in
- somewhat identity-confused us (we just had an argument)