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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[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

We do have stuffed toys- we have some nice teddy bears, and it ain't no damned symptom! It's who we are! It's amazing how just about anything can get pathologized by some people..

[(Anonymous)]

I think most people have stuffed toys. After all, most children have stuffed toys, and what's one supposed to do when one grows up - just throw them away or give them to Goodwill? Some, yeah, but not the ones that are Real - I doubt there are many people in the world with hearts that stony.

I still love my Real ones as much as ever, and I'll be kind of sad when the time comes (soon) to pack 'em away safely until such time as I have a grandchild. I'm still attached to my kid's father's Mister Mousie, and surreptitiously hug him a little sometimes when I'm over there picking the girl up. LOL, yeah, big tough guy that he is, with all his air of don't-mess-with-me and his manly pursuits, he's got this cute little pink mouse... because even big tough guys were once children.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

[Sorry; that above post is mine; forgot I wasn't logged in yet.)

[singingwolf.livejournal.com]

I had to chime in on this, I hope I'm not overstepping the boundaries.

I'm not a multiple... but from what it sounds like, that list would have had me dead center as one. (Yeah, I've got Disney t-shirts from vacations, stuffed critters, tons of Disney movies, cartoons, etc.)

Some, yeah, but not the ones that are Real

Every year, my husband buys me a stuffed critter. The wolf in my icon was from our very first Christmas together. There is also a super floppy stuffed tiger that I just can't sleep without.

The others? Just aren't Real enough. If I were to ever reclaim my vanity from the stuffed critter over-flow, I wouldn't miss most of them, other than for sentimental reasons.