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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[idianshire.livejournal.com]

Yes, basically after we got tired of arguing symptoms/signs with each other.. nothing like a little lively debate... we basically came to the point where there is no way to set out some characteristics for multiplcity. I often think the more someone fits into the stereotypical/disordered checklist the more likely I am to wonder about authencity. With that said, I have freinds up north that are so much like Sybil I joke with them all the time, so I am not saying all that do are faking.

And like you and elenbarathi said (sorry can't work out how to do the whole linky thing) I know for us it is pretty hard to spot we are multiple, at least from people that we haven't informed. At the very most we are thought of as diverse or changable. In a world that views multiplicity as something freakish we aren't exactly into advertising ourselves.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

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[changelyng14.livejournal.com]

unfortunately. im thinking that if an individual is seriously trying to figure out if there are backseaters behind him. and honestly doesnt know. its much more dependant in one of them coming out, then the person/fronter catching them.

as for fakers though, i have no opinion, except perhaps, that they'd get bored of the act a few weeks/months later?

-Lovecry

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

"as for fakers though, i have no opinion, except perhaps, that they'd get bored of the act a few weeks/months later?"

The singlets we've talked to say that's their take on it, and how they know the plurals they've met aren't faking it -- come back years later and while it may not always be the same guys, they're still plural.