A Responce to an Essay by Kaleidescope

We are parts of a well-rounded multiple system.  We agree with ac_hyper, that many neural connections occur after birth in regard to formation of an identity.  And we agree, multiplicity is not a disorder.

We've been fortunate for 11 years to have had good therapy.  Bad therapy is bad.  We've been here too (8 years).  Our parts are not fragments of someone else; we are all real people.  We're of one body and brain, but many minds.  We are open enough to think that each multiple should develop and adhere to their own beliefs, even in regard to whether or not there is a core.  We happen to have one.  Multiple or singleton, we each create our own mythology.  We also happen to have an internal self helper that is and never will be available to external people.  Among other things, she is our sense of self-privacy.  Most human beings have self labels.  I don't believe in subscribing to us all as being sorted by "kinds" of parts, it would be like subscribing seriously to horoscopes.

We've never been lead to believe in integration from our therapists.  On the contrary, they've helped us with our enlightenment and freedom.  We've never met or read about a multiple who wasn't creative, but then so are my best external friends and the folks with developmental disabilities I work for.  (Don't believe they are disabled either - Just in need like us, sometimes of a helpful translation). 

We agree multiplicity isn't as rare as once thought.  Interpersonal or social constructs being as they may, we believe it is a human tendency to define self(s).  I was abused as a child, but don't believe all abused children develop multiplicty or all multiples go through abuse.  We define ourselves as being (and alive), despite the abusers will to the contrary.  Always at risk of over-simplification, we still try to simplify life (people seem often to clutter).  Some of our parts have adapted to significant changes in our life, not just abuse (like going to school, having friends, and starting work).  We would never want to be single-minded.  We cherish our diversity.