Truddi Chase (& The Troops) died March 10, 2010.
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"Let us tell you our truth. Single people are too busy telling multiples what their experience is, and not LISTENING."
- Daimon of the Anachronic Army
Astraea: Guest Articles
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Ameturasu: Dissection of Psychology Today Article on Multiplicity As reprinted in the esteemed blog Altered Reality, this deconstructs a 2008 article with all the usual misunderstandings, half truths and mind rot.
Amorpha: The Glamorous Life In which Azusa gets into our book store and discovers that flying toasters are much more glamorous than layoffs and dustballs.
Amorpha: Social Trends and the Multiple Community By Azusa Kuraino and Ruka. Have you ever felt like the odd one out in a plural community because you seemed to be the only system who didn't have any members into BDSM, didn't self-harm, or didn't have an eating disorder? You're not as 'weird' as you may think you are.
Amorpha: Taking Advantage Of Our Good Will By Azusa of Amorpha. A few caveats for singlets who write to us looking for 'information for a novel they're writing,' or anything along those lines.
Anachronic Army: Exorcism of a Multiple Daimon of the Anachronic Army explain the exorcisms the group endured as a child, with a fundamentalist preacher.
Anachronic Army: A Halloween Story A
nasty little bit of a thing from Clarissa of the Anachronic Army, who
just wanted to see how her officemates would react if she came OUT...
even in jest.
Anachronic Army: The DP Havamal By a more than slightly
inebriated Clarissa. A reworking of the Asatru code of laws and ethics as they apply to the
infamous Dark Personalities email list. Excellent
netiquette advice amidst the hilarity.
Anachronic Army: Pro-Choice On Integration by Lesley and Larry of the Anachronic Army. Integration is not the only choice, but it is a choice.
Anachronic Army: Higher Numbers By Larry of the Anachronic Army. Why do some multiple systems have populations in the thousands?
Anachronic Army: Why We Do Not Have MPD/DID By V of the Anachronic Army. Explains their view in terms of what the DSM-IV says about the diagnostic criteria for DID.
Baaing_Tree^LB: L.B.'s Guide to Coming Out
Black Sunflower Collection^Mary: Being Accepted as a Christian Multiple By Mary of Black Sunflower Collection. Apparently Christianity -- even the genuine article -- is getting negative reactions from plurals in online communities.
Early Articles and Audio Streams From the 1970s to the early 90s, newspaper and magazine articles and a few tapes of television interviews, concerning multiplicity and the way it was viewed at that time. Some of this stuff is pretty quaint.
Hondas: Social Acceptance of Plurality and Coming Out By members of the Hondas system.
House of the Moon: Integration - Not For Natural Multiples By members of House of the Moon. Multiplicity which originated naturally does not require integration. And even that which came about through trauma and splitting can evolve into a healthy, well-ordered group.
Jack: "If I'm multiple, I'll HAVE to go on disability..."??? This is for you. Guest Editorial by Jack.
Jenn Paradise: D.I.D. You See Us Fly? If multiplicity is (at least for some) a response to abuse, what business do authoritarian doctors have telling trauma multiples that they have a disorder and must integrate and be "ONE" person?
JC Klatch System: The Klatch, Medication and Death Julie Rae Combies of the JC Klatch, a natural multiple system, explains how they were misdiagnosed with various mental illnesses and put on medication that harmed them physically and mentally.
Jinkies: Why Being Multiple Is Like The West Wing By members of Jinkies system.
Firewheel: The Evolving Understanding of Multiple Personality By Bob King of Firewheel Collective.
Firewheel: The Sanity Clause: or, Are These Nuts Safe to Play With? A look at multiples in the world of BDSM. By Bob King of Firewheel Collective.
Firewheel: Coming Out as Multiple By Bob King of Firewheel Collective. From a DID Classic, trauma-split-dissociation perspective, this is addressed to singlets who have had friends or family members come out to them.
Holly Pervocracy: Multiplicity and the feeling of opening your mind Questioning what your psych prof told you about this rare and crippling disease which doesn't really exist.
Sara Lambert: On Being The Proper Multiple Even if you actually have the psychiatric MPD condition, it is completely unnecessary to behave like Sybil in order to be believed. Please don't use the film as a role model, and please do read this article if you have or think you have MPD.
Lemarath: How Can We Change The View? By Shandra of Lemarath. It's not just a matter of getting the media to cooperate -- we multiples ourselves have to make an effort to set a good example.
Kim Mclendon: Is Multiple Personality a Disorder or a Gift?
Benefits & Liabilities of Multiplicity
Myths About Multiplicity
Multiplicity Romance and Gender
Titania Miyamoto: Some Thoughts on Verbiage Titania Miyamoto explores the limits of the current vocabulary used to describe the multiple experience.
Netdancer: States of Mind Individuality of persons in multiple systems, and explain "inner worlds" for those who can't comprehend what it really means to have one. "It is terribly painful and invalidating to be told that you are not a real person, or to see by the actions of others that they just cannot grasp the fact that each individual is a different person."
Pandora: Activism Suggestions for Multiples By Gaspard. Talks about what you can do, whether you're in or out of the plural-closet, to create support and visibility.
Phoenix: Our History by FAX of Phoenix Household.
Phoenix: The Strangeness of Here By Diana of the Ma'Harrat,
of Phoenix household.
"This is political, it's more than one person/system's experience and more than one person/system's opinion, it represents a movement for re-educating the public, it isn't made to "inspire" readers in the sense of making them feel good about themselves, but in the sense of getting them to think and to take action." - Echosnspectres
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