Some of the things you listed could apply to us, but for us they have more to do with surviving a traumatic past that shaped who we are as people, rather than the fact we are many to start with. For instance a number of us have spoken a lot about being or wanting to be normal. That has more to do with being normal means or would have meant safety. We learnt it growing up, and now try to realise normal isn't all that safe, and definitely isn't that appealing. I know in some of the communities/email lists we used to frequent a lot of so called signs of multiplicity had more to do with signs of post trauma. And indeed many were just signs of being a person, that had been pathologised. I think that had probably to do with the large majority (unlike this community it appears) were trauma survivors.
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Date: 2005-07-07 08:43 am (UTC)I know in some of the communities/email lists we used to frequent a lot of so called signs of multiplicity had more to do with signs of post trauma. And indeed many were just signs of being a person, that had been pathologised. I think that had probably to do with the large majority (unlike this community it appears) were trauma survivors.