Simplified: The state of being in a body with more than one person.
I maintain no monopoly on the definition of person, or what the center of a self is. There is I, and there is not I, not I happens to also be in the body with me.
2,) What is it like to be Multiple?
There is I, there is she.
We are a team, by choice. We can choose cooperate, or not, and that can have drastic effects on our situation. We have come to the conclusion it's best if we cooperate on a certain level. So, for us, it's like having certain obligations that we can't always explain to others.
We've found that time management can be difficult, because we have varied time intensive interests. So for us, it's like overloading your schedule at college.
We've found that our taste in friends are different, so for us, it can be like having that really close friend or significant other, with the sometimes annoying friends.
Above all, for us, it's like sharing a body, with the others who are specifically in our system, with all the quirks it entails because of who we are as individuals.
So, I guess, above all, it's like being ourselves, and is a highly individual experience.
3,) Do most or all systems have an ISH?
*shrugs* The roles paradigm fucked us up big time in the past. I borrowed a term, for communication with DID-types, and they took the term to mean protector, and immediate proceeded to force me into a mold that was not only uncomfortable, but harmful to the system as a group.
We help ourselves, individually, and as friends. We can be nurturing, selfish, violent, sexual, timid, and outspoken individuals on our own, without each other's assistance.
Incidentally, if the "ISH" is truly a different person, then his or her qualifying feature is not helping the self, but helping others. This makes the term something of a misnomer.
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I'm in an odd mood, and somewhat rushed, so I might return to clarify this.
Date: 2005-06-20 10:36 pm (UTC)Simplified: The state of being in a body with more than one person.
I maintain no monopoly on the definition of person, or what the center of a self is. There is I, and there is not I, not I happens to also be in the body with me.
2,) What is it like to be Multiple?
There is I, there is she.
We are a team, by choice. We can choose cooperate, or not, and that can have drastic effects on our situation. We have come to the conclusion it's best if we cooperate on a certain level. So, for us, it's like having certain obligations that we can't always explain to others.
We've found that time management can be difficult, because we have varied time intensive interests. So for us, it's like overloading your schedule at college.
We've found that our taste in friends are different, so for us, it can be like having that really close friend or significant other, with the sometimes annoying friends.
Above all, for us, it's like sharing a body, with the others who are specifically in our system, with all the quirks it entails because of who we are as individuals.
So, I guess, above all, it's like being ourselves, and is a highly individual experience.
3,) Do most or all systems have an ISH?
*shrugs* The roles paradigm fucked us up big time in the past. I borrowed a term, for communication with DID-types, and they took the term to mean protector, and immediate proceeded to force me into a mold that was not only uncomfortable, but harmful to the system as a group.
We help ourselves, individually, and as friends. We can be nurturing, selfish, violent, sexual, timid, and outspoken individuals on our own, without each other's assistance.
Incidentally, if the "ISH" is truly a different person, then his or her qualifying feature is not helping the self, but helping others. This makes the term something of a misnomer.
--Me