Rapid Switching

[redrainstorm.livejournal.com]

When in a chatroom with alleged multiples, they seem to switch very quickly between their mates. In one comment they're a little, and two seconds later they're a big, and three seconds after that they're an "angry alter", etc. For many reasons other then this though, I believe they're faking. But just wondered if this is possible for others.
I've tried to have my group better at rapid switching where we can switch out quickly and be completely separate while fronting because I think it would benefit certain situations, and I can't do it that fast.
Cofronting is even difficult... Our thoughts are kind of meshed... Or come out as one thought between the two of us. But they don't come out "I want to go!" "Me too!" All in one blurb.
I was wondering if people can truly switch as fast as these people in the chatroom do, because we can't do it even when trying!

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[comixologist.livejournal.com]

As Navi mentioned in our intro post, some of us seem to be median in that we switch very rapidly between a small group of us - Kelly and I swap out a lot, and occasionally Syd and Sky will do the same type of rapid-switching. In these cases, for us, it's that we do tend to co-front, in a sense. It can happen very quickly, but I don't think that it takes place as quickly as you're describing, for us, unless we're under extreme distress. And then, it's less that one of us is pushed out of the way completely, as that the other gets a few words in edgewise. When speaking with others in-person, many people don't realize that we're co-fronting at all. In text, we tend not to identify who is speaking in particular, unless it seems really, vitally important to differentiate (as with incongruent opinions during a discussion, speculation, etc).

For a lot of us, when talking in person, it's disorienting because there may be a moment of lag between realizing whether or not the co-fronter used the body's mouth to vocalize, or whether it was more of a whisper in the back of one's mind. In text, we have less disorientation because we are always looking at what's being typed, and online we have more a sense of contributing as part of a group. Does that make any sense?

Jo.