multiplicity_archives | Surprising change in system (Reply)

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Hi everyone. We have a situation we’d like some feedback on from other plurals. A week or so ago, the “original host” of this body, Toni, re-emmerged. We had thought she had died 24 years ago, and at that time another member, Cristie, began to front most of the time and kind of took over her life. It was really hard for Cristie to try to pretend to be Toni, because she had never been around, or been conscious, before this, and didn’t have Toni’s memories. Anyway, for a few days after Toni showed herself to us again, she and Cristie hung out a lot together, mostly away from the rest of the system. But then we stopped “hearing from” Cristie and we can no longer sense her. Toni is “Toni” and also has Cristie’s memories and thoughts and feelings. I know it sounds like both are there, but we can not sense Cristie’s presence in any way, only Toni. I’m not sure if this is making sense but I’m trying my best to explain.

It’s our belief now that Cristie was a split of Toni, in other words she was Toni but without the tramatic memories, and there for a different person. It is seeming to us that Toni and Cristie have integrated (*gasp*). We do not support integration, I want to make that clear. But this wasn’t a conscious decision nor forced. It just seems to have happened naturally – as if Toni and Cristie were 2 halves of the same “person” and now that they are both back they talked and decided to come together and live as one.

Ok, so this is how it seems to us. I was just wondering if anyone else has gone through this. And if any plurals have opinions about this, they would be appreciated, not matter what they were.

~ Lynn