an answer to your survey :)

[woodoo-kitty.livejournal.com]

Because this can get really long i'm going to post this here.

1. What was the first online resource/support group/community you discovered relating to multiplicity?

Well the first website i discovered was Astrea's web. I did a search through wikipedia for multiplicity and came up with something called healthy multiplicity which had the astrea web as a reference. the second place i found was a LJ community called Fractured_minds. and then i ended up here ^^

2. For systems that have internal bodies/self-images that are different from the external body's, do any of you have features that do not naturally occur in the external world (ex. naturally purple hair, blue skin, stuff like that)?

Yes there are a few of us that have odd features, I'll start with the most obvious of us. Legion- Is constantly covered in a bloody red/black muck. she is really emaciated, more so then an anorexic person, she's litterally bones covered with a tight layer of skin. her skin is slightly bluish. Mei- Has fox ears sometimes. not all the time though only when she is mischeivious. Raedi- is a dragon elf, she has pointy ears, silver hair, and pale irridescent skin when an elf, and when a dragon, well she's a dragon :p. Raes- Raedi's daughter, is also a dragon elf, and has similar features, pointy ears irridescent moon pale skin etc, but has darker, gunmetal colored hair that shimmers. and she's the silver dragon. Rowan- She's a fae creature pure golden hair and shiny pale golden skin and fine chisseled features with abnormally green eyes and pointy ears. Black and white annis- Fae royalty, both have pale skin, one silver, one gold, both irridescent, both pointy eared, both with wings, one unseelie, one seelie. Jack- Quite possibly the oddest of us all, she has hair that changes from blue with pink tips, to black, to any color. She's small and pixie like and has pointed features but not pointed ears. sometimes she has pink eyes, or purple eyes, or well any color eyes, and sometimes she has wings and sometimes she doesn't. she morphs alot. Roze- or the blood stained angel, is an angel with mangled whit wings covered in blood. Priest - also named Aria, has white hair with black tips and red eyes.

3. What special structural characteristics does your system have, if any? (For instance, is there a hierarchy? Can certain people only front through others? Do you have certain internal 'jobs'?)

There really isn't a hierarchy per se. some of us front some don't others just impose their reality on who ever IS fronting (usually me [kat])

4. How often in your public life do you pretend to be one person, if ever? Is this a choice or a necessity for your system?

All the time it really is necessity for me. I only have a few people irl i can relate too and the rest tend to say BS when i tell them, and some of them just ignore i ever said anything while the remainder run screaming. (i live in the bible belt.)

5. Can anyone in-system force anyone else to hallucinate, particularly while fronting?

YES. This is a common problem as the imagery i recieve from the others can sometimes be disturbing and just causes major issues for me.

6. On average, is the system composed mainly of people older, younger, or around the same age as the body?

About the same age but there are a few youngins, and a few really ancient people too. Rowan, Roze, Annis and Annis, Raedi, and Ophelia are older bordering on ancient. Jack and Kelly are youngins. the rest of us are the same age.

7. How did you get your individual names and/or system name? (Obviously larger systems won't be able to list all the stories of how everyone got their name, so... pick your favorites/most interesting? If you were born/created already having a name, that's fine too.)

Ok well system name came about from the second website i ever made, It was called Utopian Dystopia which is well opposites pushed together. The first one i made before i realized i was multiple was called Fractured (and now i'm broken)... funny yeah? Our individual names came from ourselves. we didn't name ourselves, that was just what our names were. the most interesting ones are black annis, annis the white, Legion, Priest, and Ophelia. well to me anyways. to the others it's all diffrent. mei is conceded and thinks hers is the best there is :p for in chinese it means beautiful.

8. How frequently do issues of denial come up in your system, if ever? Does this cause a lot of problems for your system? What do you think is the main factor that causes this denial for you?

Rather often actually, not all of us think they are here, not all of us think we're multiple, and some of us deny that we are even here. This doesnt' cause too many issues but sometimes we get foggy. the main factor in our denial i think is that we just discovered many of us. so i think with time it will subside.

9. What, if any, is something within the multiple community itself that you feel is contributing to society's refusal to see multiplicity as anything other than a trauma-induced disorder?

I don't know really. I mean other then us screaming, no one is really vieying for us. we're not diseased, we aren't a disease, and we aren't disordered, we're just not organized, and i think that some of us may have respective issues but we're all doing the best we can... and i mean some of us are trauma-induced in here so i'm not saying we aren't but we definately aren't a disease. (utopian distopia general consensus.)

and that is it for the survey... I think we should have some of these more often ^^