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[eternalism.livejournal.com]

So, I recently told my mother about being part of a system. It went rather well, I think. The first thing she said was that she didn't know much about multiplicity, but she knew it wasn't schizophrenia. That's more than most people understand.

It took a bit of courage to do that. I figured she wouldn't understand, or she'd be freaked ut and think I was crazy or something. I know I'm not, but having a reasonably close family member think you are would kind hurt. It was bad enough when I first started going through depression all those years ago. But now I'm out of the closet, so to speak.

*chuckles* My closet has many brooms. I've taken to referring to them as my broommates. XD

So, out of curiosity, how many people within your family know of your situation? How did they react? What did they say, and how did they treat you?

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[grey-reverie.livejournal.com]

wow...its kinda depressing how many of us have to live with our biological families in the dark..

i could never tell mum and pops about us, because for one i know they would instantly dismiss it, and say im using it as an excuse for some obscure reason. then if i persisted, being the devout christians they are, they would tie me up like a hog claiming it was for my own good and try to send me off to some psych ward..

plus, a good half of the people in my system hate pops because of what he did to cody and i when we were younger... they dont want anything to do with him. i did make the mistake of telling my sister tracy about us, and at first she seemed fine with it, but considering how shes always treated us like total crap like pops, i should have known better. now she taunts us about it and calls us crazy, but were able to ignore it.

lucky, glad your bio family is understanding about it!

-lukies