The love interest was completely fake as was most of the film, and the book.
Sally Field played Sybil as a dowdy, unkempt, almost bag lady type. The bizarre behavior, the child alters, etc., were all contrived to fulfill audience expectations of a "mental patient". Little to nothing is known of the real Shirley Mason. We have received letters from people who knew her who confirm that her mother was very controlling and allowed her no freedom, but the more extreme incidents in book and film apparently did not happen. There is no evidence backing up the assertion that Shirley was too scarred inside to have children. What we did hear from one source was that Shirley, like Dr. Wilbur, was gay.
Another source told us that Shirley remained multiple all her life despite Wilbur's attempts to integrate her; in fact she said she was lonely and depressed without the others, whom she came to regard as a family.
Psychological historian Peter Swales is doing research on what really happened with Shirley Mason. The last we heard of him, he had actually put that on hold because he was also working on a project about Marilyn Monroe and some new information was uncovered about her recently.
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The love interest was completely fake as was most of the film, and the book.
Sally Field played Sybil as a dowdy, unkempt, almost bag lady type. The bizarre behavior, the child alters, etc., were all contrived to fulfill audience expectations of a "mental patient". Little to nothing is known of the real Shirley Mason. We have received letters from people who knew her who confirm that her mother was very controlling and allowed her no freedom, but the more extreme incidents in book and film apparently did not happen. There is no evidence backing up the assertion that Shirley was too scarred inside to have children. What we did hear from one source was that Shirley, like Dr. Wilbur, was gay.
Another source told us that Shirley remained multiple all her life despite Wilbur's attempts to integrate her; in fact she said she was lonely and depressed without the others, whom she came to regard as a family.
Psychological historian Peter Swales is doing research on what really happened with Shirley Mason. The last we heard of him, he had actually put that on hold because he was also working on a project about Marilyn Monroe and some new information was uncovered about her recently.