Thursday, March 20, 2008

When multiplicity doesn't involve numbers

I read that Multiple Personality Disorder is now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Neither term should be confused with scizophrenia. If you disagree, then we need more asylums cos indeed we all have multiple personalities.

I am going to use Mahmee as an example who through healthy multiplicity, lives a happy and productive life. She is a mother, daughter, wife, sister, friend, daughter in law, sister in law on a daily basis. She plays the domestic cleaner, customer, cook on most days. Occasionaly she is the driver. She is lucky that she needs not to be an employee at the moment. Looking through the list, she confirms that 'one size fits all' is not applicable here, where personality is concerned. In fact she needs to be able to switch from moody wife to loving mum in 5 seconds and then split to grouchy cleaner when the coast is clear. More confusing multiplicities in operation when she is NOT ovulating. She can be sarcastic and compliant, cheerful and bitter to the same person at the same. This is the time when she can describe herself in many oxymoron-ic ways. She likes referring herself as the third party in monologues which involve dissecting her personalities, and feels moronic.

And then she feels comforted that someone in wikipedia is wise enough to say "healthy multiplicity is not a disorder, but a natural variation of human consciousness" On that note, she ends her soliloquy and proceeds to rummage through the closet for the ill-fitting Wonderwoman costume.

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