eoskara replied to your post “From my psychiatry rotation, it's like there's a women who is very...”
Status: I was interested in multiplicity a few years ago but am not multiple: my understanding is that people typically come to understand it after a period of dissociative episodes + others and yourself noticing your strange behaviour, then investigating that behaviour in yourself and meeting/hearing from the alter in your mind space. Other people just Know. Learning to communicate with alters may be a therapy- or time-based process.
Yeah, that’s one of the things that puzzles me about “we’re a system” stuff--there’s very little talk of dissociation.
I’m actually okay with the idea that autistic or otherwise neurodivergent brains might make selves differently from the majority, but...
...honestly, it reminds me of when my transmedicalist friends talk about missing the word “transsexual” because “transgender” as most people use it now is such a different experience from what they’re experiencing.
Just in the sense that the two kinds of multiplicity people describe seem very, very different from one another... to the point where it seems totally reasonable for people to start not being able to communicate with one another effectively.
