Speritu

[pyraxis]

A scene from the evil chapter 12. Which nobody, including me, can figure out how the hell to get onto paper. Cut the artist some slack, that's not what I look like, but somebody can't paint faces.

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[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

Hey, can I ask about the "don't identify as a multiple" thing? I've been doing more research into multiplicity stuff and am still trying to figure out what the heck to identify as, or what vocabulary is best to describe myself. *grin* And then in the comments in that post by beauty_eternal you talk about multiplicity and it sounds like you are including yourself in that.

I'll probably be doing a lot more processing of this stuff in my new lj filter soon. I think I have a lot to say, both about the blurring between imagination and multiplicity, and about the communication in groups of multiples stuff you mentioned, but I'm pretty exhausted and pressed for time at the moment so I guess this is just another "I'm thinking about it and will get it out in words eventually" notification. :)

[pyraxis]

My first introduction to multiplicity was the trauma-based definition and there are still a lot of people that think of it that way. DID, extreme abuse, all that. I don't want to run the risk of people overhearing little bits of what I talk about and classing me that way. I would find it beyond embarrassing to have to explain to someone that I was not badly traumatized, and in a way I find it disrespectful to the people who have survived stuff like that to turn "multiplicity" into a half-game that writers play and can put aside whenever it's convenient. It's the same way that I make a clear distinction between "autism" and "on the autism spectrum".

I figured that beauty_eternal knew enough about different terminology that I didn't have to worry about that confusion with her.