symptoms anyone?

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I have been wondering since a previous post what the symptoms of multiplicity (not the disordered view) actually are. I mean I know what you read on other websites, but they seem more to do with post traumatic stress than multiplicity, or someone that thinks Sybil is the only multiple known in the last 50 years. Now I don’t mean what makes someone multiple, we are fine with our definition of that, the debate here is what would be on a checklist. I hate the word symptom because it does imply illness, maybe characteristics would be a better word. Things like time loss.. which I know a lot of multiples don’t actually have, I suppose we do lose time, although as Tryall said it isn’t so much that we lose time as much as someone’s life/activities/ are so boring no one else pays any attention. We lose time by a conscious choice. We hear voices but in a study we took part in the woman running it said that hearing voices is something a large part of the population does anyway. Maybe there aren’t any clear cut symptoms/characteristics that are relevant to multiples/plurals as a group, and maybe we are all just so bored that the most exciting thing for us to do is argue amongst ourselves on this foggy day… which is more likely

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This isn't because we've "switched", though - it's still me; just that Kír's listening to the conversation too, and sometimes - okay, often - makes remarks about what I'm saying. He objects to me being vulgar, bitchy, or "overly forthcoming", and a lot of times I don't realize that I am being so till he mentions it, so then have to back-track.

That happens a lot with me, though I'm on the other end from you. My sister has social problems, and we work together on trying to get better at it by me guiding her in certain situations. There are a lot of times I will make my sister go back and change her words, because I'm more conscientious of how they will be taken. I like to be careful about how we come off to other people. But then again, I do it sometimes just to annoy her. :)