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Today in my abnormal psych class we went over dissociative disorders with a focus on DID. My professor used to work as a clinical psychologist for 20-some years, and to support the idea that multiples are extremely rare he mentioned that he had never met one in his entire career.

So I'm wondering... should we prove him wrong? It was so tempting to just jump up in class and be like, "Not true! You know ONE multiple!" but of course I didn't. I was thinking of going about it in a more discreet way, perhaps asking him if he'd like to meet a multiple. Hmm.

Any suggestions?

Also in class we were going to watch the video "Mind of a Murderer" about a serial killer who tried to get off on insanity by saying he was a multiple. The tape didn't work so we didn't watch it, but it annoyed me that of all views of MPD/DID to see in a video it'd be THAT one. Of course this guy was proved to have been making it all up to get out of jail so he wasn't actually a multiple, but still. Discussing multiplicity in the context of murder doesn't lead to positive opinions =/ (Although my professor clearly understood that one has nothing to do with the other and the tape was to show how it could be faked, who knows what the other students picked up from that.)

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The way I told my professor was through an unsigned email (which turned into convos back and forth) and then I let her know who I was in her class. That way I saw her reaction, so if it came out badly she had no idea who it was.

I thought of sending him an email, but for some reason he hates email and never reads it =/ We're only supposed to contact him via phone outside class.

The note under the door may be a good thing then, but then again you may never know what he thinks about a multiple being in his class since he has no way of contacting you back and may not address it openly to all of his classes on his opinion.
I also did what someone siad below, writing many papers in my psych classes on multiplicity and challenging the whole "survivor multiple" and it being a "disorder".

I was thinking of giving him my P.O. Box #(which I share with someone - I'd give it under their name) and tell him that if he wants to contact me to leave me a letter.

If the box is registred under the other persons' real name, perhaps you should use them as the 'care of' person, with the addressee being a pseuonym of yours. The professor might seek out the other person, or share the name with someone else, which could cause akwardness.

- Kat