I can identify with the 'me' and 'them' thing, although I still use 'we' fairly often for simplicity's sake. I'm the one who's almost always out. I actually don't even know how to not front. It was agreed on long ago that there should be one person in our system who acts as a sort of buffer zone between the inside and outside, and I was chosen to be it. Sometimes this works to our advantage, sometimes it doesn't; it has however alienated me greatly from the rest of the system.
At the moment the rest of the system are 'in the back' somewhere, and I can't contact them. They resurface whenever they want to front or tell me something, then go back and I'm left up front alone again. This is happening more and more frequently, probably as a result of being forced to appear as one person to our family and at school. I feel like the odd man out a lot of the time, but I understand it's hard for everyone in here.
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Date: 2005-07-06 03:18 am (UTC)At the moment the rest of the system are 'in the back' somewhere, and I can't contact them. They resurface whenever they want to front or tell me something, then go back and I'm left up front alone again. This is happening more and more frequently, probably as a result of being forced to appear as one person to our family and at school. I feel like the odd man out a lot of the time, but I understand it's hard for everyone in here.