Truth In A Public Forum

[nomads-quill.livejournal.com]

I apologize if this has been asked before.

I am going through another episode. A bit of the coming apart at the seams.

My primary journal is LJ. I keep a lot of stuff private. But I am curious: how do you all decide how much of yourselves -this thing we all share- how do you decide how much is public? How much of yourself/ves do you show?

Thanks for the thoughts. I am in all sorts of debate on this. Do I show this or not?

Comments

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

For us, how much we show has a great amount to do with how comfortable we are with what we are. We are friends only, entirely, but, for instance, our friend's only entry has links to websites explaining multiplicity.

If you've been 'masquerading' as a singlet for a while on your journal, you may not want to say to your entire friends list one day, "Hey everyone, I'm multiple." Although there is nothing wrong with that either, it just seems like it might lead to many shocked/disbelieving sentiments that you may not want to deal with at this time.

Perhaps start telling the people on your friends list who you really trust and creating a special filter for them? Then slowly begin adding people to that filter and explaining it to them. Perhaps even add a few other systems that you find through this community, other communities, or in any manner, for advice on the things you post and to let the rest of those on the filter see that it is not entirely 'rare' as they may have thought.

Hope that helps some. :)