I also kind of question the idea that autistics "create" personalities in response to in a sense, their trauma..
At times the theory is worded that way, but it doesn't have to be. There's also the possibility of common causes, where gene-sets contributing to autism might predispose one to be/become multiple. (Or gene-sets which are simply more common in the autisitc population, even if they have no direct effect on the expression of spectrum traits.)
The body has AS, as I mentioned, and the trauma-multiple thing doesn't mesh with our experience either. There might originally have been one person in this body, but if there was, they no longer exist because we grew out of them in much the same way as a grove of trees can share a root system. It was an entirely natural process. (The other option is that we were hiding from one another for 12+ years, which is also a possibility.)
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Date: 2005-07-27 02:31 am (UTC)At times the theory is worded that way, but it doesn't have to be. There's also the possibility of common causes, where gene-sets contributing to autism might predispose one to be/become multiple. (Or gene-sets which are simply more common in the autisitc population, even if they have no direct effect on the expression of spectrum traits.)
The body has AS, as I mentioned, and the trauma-multiple thing doesn't mesh with our experience either. There might originally have been one person in this body, but if there was, they no longer exist because we grew out of them in much the same way as a grove of trees can share a root system. It was an entirely natural process.
(The other option is that we were hiding from one another for 12+ years, which is also a possibility.)