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[terrenepixy.livejournal.com]

okay, so im not sure how this works, but here goes.

i found this community through saturniakitty (sorry, not so good with the l/j tags) on a fake l/j-er community, and reading through this ive become a bit confused as to my own situation.

ive always felt like there are others in my head and/or my body, ever since i was little. ive been told that i talk to someone when there's no one there, but i think that there is someone there or i don't even remember having that conversation. i also go through personality changes- i was diagnosed as bipolar, which seems to be explination enough for family and doctors, but it doesn't quite explain it all for me. ill be talking to someone and ill switch to someone else, sometimes making it a bit more confusing for people who don't know that i do that. there was even a point that i was "flickering" between three main, at which point i withdrew and became anti-social because it was easier. for a while i was explaining it to myself as manifestations of former lives and/or other beings (im pagan, so it fits with my belief system) but even that doesn't quite fit.

is there any chance that i /could/ be a multiple?

im kind of just looking for an explination. it gets difficult for me to deal with changing or flickering, and anything that makes sense might help me cope.

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Welcome

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

The only criterion we have ever been able to ascertain for multiplicity is sensing or perceiving other presences besides your own, sometimes using your body or present in it along with yourself. Memory loss, a history of child abuse, and difficulty coping with activities of daily living or interactions with the world-at-large, are not necessary or "required" for multiplicity, although you'll read much literature to the contrary and some multiples do experience these things.

We have never been able to control our changes, but we have a code of conduct for frontrunners so that it's not necessary for a specific person to be at front. We also have good communication.

If you're having a problem with changes, a good practise is to establish better communication with the others so as to coordinate your changes in some way.

You may have other questions, which may possibly be answered here:
http://www.karitas.net/blackbirds/layman/
http://www.dreamshore.net/amorpha/faq.html
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/faq.shtml

Re: Welcome

[terrenepixy.livejournal.com]

thank you for the welcome.

that sounds familiar to my situation, along with the difficulty in coping with interactions with the world at large- ive always been a private person and large groups scare me quite a bit (i had a panic attack in chinatown in new york when i was there).

i def. can't control my changes. ^^ that, i think, is what makes it the hardest. but if i can communicate, that would make it easier.

thank you for those links- ill be looking at them for sure.