On multiples and consistency- my own musings, forgive me if this is repititous

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Its seems to me that the misunderstandings people have in regards to people who are multiple arises out of a single misapprehension which can be understood thusly:

Most people ‘understand’ multiplicity as one person with one reaction-set (personality) in which each reaction/emotion is personified. In such a model one ‘alter’ would be the persononification of ‘anger’ and would always ‘come out’ when the person was angry, one ‘person’ is always sad, etcetera. In this model the “multiple” in question has a single unified personality simply broken down into named bits. The person will react the same way to the same stimulus every time.
That is the way multiplicity is typically portrayed in the media, and so the way the layman understands it.

The way I have seen multiplicity to work however is radically different. What I would call ‘true’ multiplicity is one person/body with many (multiple) reaction-sets (personalities). Instead of each person being one emotion, each has a full range of emotions. Every system member has his own way of dealing with anger, sadness, fear, etcetera. Some may respond to one stimulus more strongly, and move to the front when in occurs if they have been co-present, but still each person within the body has a reaction to the stimulus if they are aware of it.

The true multiple is in fact more confusing and frightening to the average person than the media image is because the true multiple will not react the same way to the same stimulus every time. Each system member will have a consistent and coherent personality, but an observer will only see one body behaving inconsistently e.g. reacting differently to getting angry depending on who is out at the front- handling an event time with a sigh and a shrug that the day-or even hours-before would have brought on ugly faces and a stream of cursing.

Man longs for consistency in his realm, science is based on the idea that an experiment preformed the same way under the same conditions will have the same outcome. On the surface multiples seem to break this rule, however this is simply a problem of lack of enough information. A person who is aware that a body contains multiple people will see that despite outward appearances of inconsistency internal consistency is maintained, as each person is consistent to his self.

-Grima

...*amused*

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When the overlord's away, the androids can play.  Or at least that's the idea it sends me.
A couple days ago, we were returning to the apartment (Fredd was fronting) and wound up bumping into a drunken frat.  Fredd naturally said something sarcastic and the frat decked him.  He's been brooding since this, ergo, this is Felix. 
So for the last 3 days now, we haven't heard from him...  and in the absence of our noble leader (<---insert biting sarcasm here) me, Manfred and Angst man have had control (Well them and Skeepy.  But I don't want to talk about that, lol (Skeepy is a hyperactive child who speaks with a spanish accent, yeah)).  It's been far too long since we had this much freedom, but frankly, the thing that throws me is just the state that Jeff has fallen into.  I mean, if you look at the time that we first came to inhabit Jeff, there is a clear delineation in health from good to meh to sad to pathetic.  And the black eye doesn't exactly scream "sexy". (YES, still single... I'm a sad panda.)
So what else?  Aside from the awesome drawings... Oh well, I will have to post them eventually.  My scanner is teh dead as of now.
Anyway, I shall post again, hopefully more frequently providing the Overlord broods. XD
Rock On
Felix.

Introduction post

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I was extremely excited to find this community as I'm tired of my friends telling me "Oh, I understand completely, you've assigned names to your emotions". We each have our own emotions, our own taste in food, our own fashion sense, our own interest in movies and TV shows and books but it's so hard to get anyone to understand that. So thank you to all of you.

We're a - system? I like that term - of five (as far as I know). I'm Daphyn, I'm physically 24, and I'm dominant most of the time. I can hear the others and they can take over when they want to, or when I let them (that's more often).

We also have Frederick who is 11. He protects us, he makes sure we don't get hurt, he makes sure we can express our feelings properly, and he makes sure we take care of ourselves. He's our rationality and common sense, as the rest of us don't have much, unfortunately. Most people can't tell the difference between Frederick and I, but we don't mind. He feels like sunshine and clear sky after a long rain.

Alomina is 7, and she's absolutely adorable, but very demanding, very needy, and tends to throw tantrums or sing songs to me when I don't do what she thinks we should be doing. She gets the "gimmes" at the store, demands Pop-Tarts or candy or bacon or whatever she feels like eating at the time. She also has a lisp, and a higher voice than me, and she's very violent sometimes. She's a little "princess".

Jasmine is two and a half, and she's not great at talking yet, so it's hard to tell much about her personality. She's very sweet though, very intelligent, and frightened of the dark.

And then there's M. M is middle-aged. And she hates everybody. And everything. She's always depressed and she feels very gray. But luckily she doesn't speak up much.