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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up & to the left part.
my ex (25-way) when some of her people were getting aquianted with the front. id notice up&2theleft along with what was odvious to me as then 'getting fed' whatever info they needed to know. then we noticed that we do it a tad when we're digging for that stuff without really noticing it, sort of a very very mild sensation somewhere above our left eye. never caught on as to whether its a multiple thing, or just a people thing though.

as for the task part, if someones more in line with classictraumawhatever, and their in denial/thedark and they have 'functiony-like people' lurking. thats the best i could describe the experience to someone. seriously, i used to be able to write programming. but since we 'liberated', i cant do it. i used to stare at the keyboard and the know-how came to me. now i gotta actually wake up my dude that does it, and switch properly.

but yeah. i have no clue, really, how natural multiples function or if/how their different from splits. aside from what ive learned from ppl on this board.