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[rabbittspeaks.livejournal.com]

hi,  i'm rabbitt. i'm part of tatteredscars's group. i came out to one of our closest friends last night. he said he could see a difference. something about the body's jaw being thinner. it suprised me and the body girl. we didn't do anything intentionally.
have any of you been told that the body looks different when you come out? facial features or posture or something?
~rabbitt

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[crystalseraph.livejournal.com]

We've been told that Tahl is more 'masculine' in the way he looks, stands and speaks, though we've ever only had someone say in passing. To people who knew me previously or extensively, they can generally guess when Tahl is around.

[kennings-system.livejournal.com]

Yup. Our eyes change color, and voices change somewhat too.

[rabbittspeaks.livejournal.com]

yeah, i think my voice was different, too. but it's hard to tell because the body girl was smoking a lot.

[cirape.livejournal.com]

Our postures can vary greatly, but as three of the four fronters lately seem to have similar ones its not that noticeable unless Dizzy gets out. She usually prefers to co-front or 'follow' us, though.
Not sure about voice changes, except for 'emotion' behind the voice and what not.

Features of the Body

[susanacts.livejournal.com]

Well, in high school, we were told that a glaze forms over our eyes, and we are somewhat distant when we speak...almost like a shy child. Just for the record, we've been together since age 4. It's been years since high school, but our best friend, now deceased, was the one who noticed the change. Hi, I'm Kerry by the way... :-) I'm one of the members of The Posse.

[redrainstorm.livejournal.com]

Posture, voice, certain "phrases" only certain people say, they way some dress, eye contact (the younger ones tend to look away more), stuff like that.
My therapist can tell who's out by the response she gets when we enter the room (one likes lights out, one likes her to sit right next to us, etc etc)

[heyyy-sunshine.livejournal.com]

We've only REALLY been caught twice. Once when Aimee was out and getting in a fight with somebody. Nobody knew it was her then, but tons of people mentioned the change. Our therapist caught one of the kids out (I'm not sure how) and made her cry by accident because it scared her. Everybody knows what they need to do to come off as who they need to be when we're around everybody. From time to time my fiancee notices the smaller changes like sucking my thumb, the way we eat, extreme anger towards someone, or really aggressive sex or something. Also, there's eye contact. Some absolutely refuses to look in people's eyes. My therapist told us to and they would glance and look away so she knew. Others look straight into people's eyes like they're confident and alright with themselves, and others stare people down. It's cool though. I didn't think about all of this until now. :D

[hold-me-coldly.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Yep, we have different posture, some of us. Different ways some of us walk, talk, interact with people, and totally different interests and hobbies even.

[kyanve.livejournal.com]

For some reason even with the "blending forward rather than fronting" I/we have...

One of my old supervisors used to ask who he was talking to when I had a shift o.o;. (Keeping in mind the boundaries are hazy and there's only very few short times there isn't at least some degree of "Birdy" in front in-addition-to.) A couple friends can often tell what's out by body language, facial expressions, speech patterns, accent shifts, and word choice. I have a few pictures from that where just in a single frame it's pretty visible.
aaand co-workers at my last job commented on things even thou I don't think most of them ever grokked what was going on beyond "Birdy's odd", and one of them found Sydney "creepy" - it was actually kinda interesting how they'd adjust their reactions to me within minutes of a shift without even seeming to be aware of it. (Have had people ask about a couple of their accents, and a linguistics prof who'd been trying to figure out where I'd traveled when I was younger by my accent-shifts getting confused, too. eheh)
Have been mistaken for a guy a couple times with some of the guys loud, which's amusing really.

Considering that I don't front-shift and it gets noticed, I'd be surprised if some of the more plural end-of-scale people didn't have mannerism-shifts.

Re: Features of the Body

[rabbittspeaks.livejournal.com]

i bet the two youngest would be distant, too. but i don't know. they haven't spoken yet. but i don't have much to do with them anyway.

[kyouketsusha.livejournal.com]

Lili and I tend to look/behave pretty differently from one another, it's really noticeable. Mischa makes different faces than I do but she's not as drastically different from me. We all have different voices, though. :)

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

I don't know if anything changes for us or not. Nobody's ever really said. Other than physical things we notice about the body on the inside like anxiety or faster metabolism or someone making the body calmer than others. nobody hardly even knows about us so. ♥
LeAnne

[rabbittspeaks.livejournal.com]

hey leanne. you're kind of with kalli, huh? for some reason, we love hearing from your groups.
~rabbitt

[freakshownia.livejournal.com]

For us, there's changes in voice, posture, and eye color, as well as general mannerisms and gestures.

[freakshownia.livejournal.com]

Though we're now able to pretend like we're one person, and can control/minimize all the differences except for eye color.

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

heya rabbitt. ♥ thanx! Yep Kalli hangs out with us too ♥ what'cha been up to?
LeAnne

[forever-alone.livejournal.com]

My ex would notice some odd changes in physical features. He knew about us, but he never connected the physical stuff to us being multiple. He'd say my eyes were larger, that I looked scared sometimes, subtle stuff like that. We never fully switched in front of him but apparently the changes were still there even if we were cofronting.

I think our eye color changes sometimes too, and of course the voice, posture, and mannerisms. Some of us stand taller than others. One of us in particular has extremely powerful control over the legs, and is the only one who never got winded going up the huge set of stairs to the library at school. Luckily most of us can control how much influence we're having over the physical body, so it makes it easier for us to appear like one person and conceal switching.

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

yeah.. our eyes change, body posture,.. voice.. apparently a whole hades of a lot.. (scared the hades out of a co-worker who doesn't know about us the other day)

so yeah.. I know we feel different.. but having it verified both by people who know and people who don't.. yeah..

[shiro-hayabusa.livejournal.com]

Posture, mannerisms, tone of voice, vocal pitch, even how we wear our hair, all of that can and does change externally depending on who's fronting.

[shade-durza.livejournal.com]

I too was wondering if anybody had the same thing but it seems like a lot do. :)

My ex knew exactly who was fronting because my whole posture changes dramatically. He also told me he noticed some slight physical changes. I thought my eyes changing color was a load of you know what until others, who don't even know we're multiple, noticed it too.
I had a girlfriend who totally flipped out once when my eyes changed and thought I was possessed and needed help. :P

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Astraea have said they can identify some of us by things like posture and voice. Apparently I have a particular way of sitting or something. We do have a lot of "normalflage" that we've developed over the years because the goal, especially when we were younger, was to show as few changes in behavior as possible, and to keep people from affecting our presentation at the front. For all the jokes that we used to make about the "men in white coats taking me away because I'm crazy" when we were younger, we were also afraid it really would happen.

There are a lot of things that people sometimes take to indicate multiplicity, yet I don't necessarily, because we've seen them in non-multiples. For instance, we've known three people who were all thoroughgoing singlets, whose eyes changed color.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

For some of us. Body language and vocal mannerisms.

[bowlcutavenger.livejournal.com]

Weelll, I (Fredd speaking) speak in a thick New York accent (our humanoid lisps), Felix tends to be quiet-er and does not have a noticeable accent beyond the human lisping, and... Mandfred is a Transvestite, so yees, I have had friends notice physical changes between us.