Looking for info and links about multiple/aspy overlap

[firewheelvortex.livejournal.com]

I keep running into aspy multiples like myself; I'm starting to wonder how common it is, and if there's any recognition of it beyond the aspy, multi and otherkin communities.

I posted this question in my journal and in asperger; I belatedly joined this community to ask here as well.

As far as I can tell this is a "bubble-up" perception from those of us who are both, and are starting to notice that We Are Not Alone.

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[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

We are as fried as we could possibly be from unpleasant things going on in our lives, but just wanted to give you the thumbs up for exploring this connection!
We are also autistic/multiple, and frankly couldnt imagine ourselves as being the latter without the former.
More tonight, but for now, just wanted to stand up and be counted, and offer our support.

[36.livejournal.com]

I don't think that we as a whole are aspy but we have some people in our system who identify very strongly with those experiences. David certainly felt like an 'alien anthropologist' before he even heard about AS and Daniel is practically 'face blind' and (to some of us) astoundingly literal about language. Perhaps their 'neural networks' use different brain structures than the rest of us?

We've noticed that a large portion of the functional plural community are aspy, perhaps you should cross post this to plural_living? I know a section of that community boycott this one.

Maybe it's just that aspy people are more likely to not see a problem with being different or are more open to thinking that their minds don't work like other people's and therefore more likely to become selves-aware?

Very interesting topic, thank you.

-Matthew

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

Why the boycott, 36? Is it seen as another way of pathologising multiplicity?
We dont see it that way at all.

[36.livejournal.com]

I think the occasional 'I'm going to kill myself, talk me out of it' posts or just the high frequency of 'am I multiple?' posts, are the main reason. But also some people just want to talk to other functional plurals without getting lots of comments which imply it's a disorder or that the person writing is the 'real one' and the others are the alters, and so on.

Mainly plural_living has a much tighter concept of on and off topic; it's discussing the day to day of living plural and the workings of functional plural operating systems, so there's a higher signal to noise ratio there for people who are just interested in that.

[shigoddess.livejournal.com]

We're not autistic, however it's interesting that you should post this as Saturnia was wondering the same thing earlier today. (We were considering what connections might exist between mutliplicity and other atypical mentalities.