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]

"I think one of the stronger outside signs with us is how different we each are in terms of tastes (as well as body language and demeanour). If someone goes out to dinner with me they'll get "yum! ice cream!" and with Lyria she doesn't eat it."

We have that, but I don't think a person who didn't already know would notice it. Crist-Erui doesn't let himself be seen by strangers long enough for anyone to see what he eats or won't eat, and until fairly recently, Kír wouldn't eat at all, wouldn't even drink water. He does better now, but he's still pretty cautious about it. He drinks chai, whereas I favor coffee, but I like chai too, so that's not a sure sign.

I'm the only one of us who smokes, so that is a sure sign, but I don't smoke all the time, so it's only sure when I'm actually doing it.