Question

[joyless-abyss.livejournal.com]

What is median and mid-continuum? I've often wondered about this, because I've heard that it is like multiplicity except centered a lot around one person in the system.

I'd like as much info on this as possible, and I'd greatly appreciate any help I can get on this.

-Andy.

Comments

us too

[kaleidescope.livejournal.com]

i don't really understand the concept. i mean, to me being multiple means you have more than one person sharing a body. and a lot of multiple systems and people in multiple systems go through self-doubt and self-exploration where they think the other people in there are just feelings or fragments of people somehow or whatever else besides people. and the therapist community, in my opinionated opinion, really promotes a very one-person-centered idea of multiplicity, where there's one "real" person and everyone else is their "alters" or there's one "core" person who "shattered" and nobody in there is a real person, or whatever. and i think it really confuses things to the point that "mid-continuum" is a totally meaningless term to me.

i don't think that was a very helpful response on my part :) i think it was mostly about the idea that multiplicity would be different if it were centered around one person. just that i think a lot of information out there tries to force systems to be centered around one person or think of themselves that way and it's really difficult to know what the difference is or what those terms mean in those circumstances.

a lot of systems that i've seen identifying as mid-continuum are describing things that definitely sound like everyday multiplicity to me but that seem so different to them because they have so little information available about the wide variety of different ways and experiences of being multiple. but then i wander into the dangerous territory of judging what other people are for them. aie!!

Re: us too

[joyless-abyss.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. Gives me some food for thought. I hate to say it, but our system is mostly centered around one person (well, at the moment anyway). But yeah, when people try to categorise eachother into labels things get out of hand. I guess the thing I was finding difficult was working out the difference between median, mid-continuum and multiplicity. A lot of it sounds the same to us.

-Andy.