symptoms anyone?

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

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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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

We don't have any stuffed toys - I gave all my old ones to my daughter when she was little. We don't have any clothing with cartoon characters on them either, and never have had, not even in childhood - I never liked them; I don't even really like prints. Crist-Erui doesn't seem to care at all what his clothes look like; just how they feel. He never went shopping in his life - heh, he wouldn't set foot in a mall; all those lights and noises and strangers. I'm the one who buys all our clothing; it's like pulling hen's teeth to get Kír to even express an opinion about what he likes or doesn't like.

What's up with this idea that every multiple House has to have children? We don't, and I know other Houses that don't - that sounds like another of those "DID Model" fallacies, based on the erroneous notion that the only way multiplicity occurs is through severe trauma in early childhood.