Question

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

It's been suggested that multiplicity might be more common in people with/whose body has Aspergers' syndrome or autism, and I'm rather curious how well that holds up.

Do you or anyone in your system have Aspergers' syndrome or autism? If so, is it a system-wide thing, or particular to a certain person or group?


We have Aspergers' syndrome, and it appears to affect everyone in our system to some extent. (None of us is all that good at understanding social situations or reading body language, for instance, and the lot of us have 'odd' interests.)

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Comments

Re: Duck, and cover your ass.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

oh christ, did that bring back memories. In usenet alt.support.dissociation and alt.sexual.abuse.recovery, circa 1995-98, it seemed like every other post was that. It was all of the worst examples brought together in two collectors' edition stereo DVDs for our viewing pleasure. Bonus track: it turned out that Peter Barach, yes that Peter Barach (http://www.issd.org), came into the newsgroup and saw all that, and we still believe that this was at least one of the major excuses he used to convince his fellow Thought Police to get rid of the MPD diagnosis (so people with actual MPD couldn't get help), change it to DID, and declare us all a bunch of confused, delusional LOONIES just because that's what he saw on usenet!!!

Re: Duck, and cover your ass.

[spookshow-girl.livejournal.com]

It's usenet, the quintessential example of people behaving badly online. Do you have any idea how much stuff we could get discounted on that alone? *laughs* Someone might have wanted to check his temperature at the time.

--Me

Re: Duck, and cover your ass.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

I think I actually found some of his insufferably arrogant posts one time in a Deja search. He was engaged in a debate with someone who was trying to convince him that integration wasn't always necessary. Unfortunately, that group wasn't very good for convincing anyone that multiples were capable of responsibly tying their own shoes, or doing anything except having their heads knocked together until they all agreed to get along.