Yeah, we lucked out, we liked the Flock better. (Not that it was a perfect book AT ALL but at least it depicted headmates getting along and working together.)
Two people can get the exact same head injury and one will recover while the other develops impairments, and there's still no good way to predict who will go in which direction.
Yeah, and also, getting asphyxiated a lot probably could've done the job too. We definitely sometimes have trouble doing things, but who knows whether it's psychological or neurological at this point, and we've never been tested so will probably never know.
Oh man, ha, yeah, Doris Fischer was totally from an abusive home from what I read.
At the same time though, I feel a little... I dunno if dubious is right, since we're clearly a multiple whose multiplicity is influenced by trauma, but I also feel like... I dunno. I see how the concept of medical multi evolves over time, and how the abuse like gets worse and worse over the years as "acceptable" or the "norm" involving MPD/DID, and it still bothers me a little. Especially with how it ties into a lot of people's terror that their trauma "isn't bad enough" and how it's used to be a dick to people. And also because I still want there to be room for multiples who HAVEN'T experienced that. (Plus, can't lie, racism is still a big part of why I kinda go hmm. Because black women were fighting against institutionalized rape and child abuse in antilynching and antislavery activism, but medical multiplicity is STILL seen as such a "white lady" thing. It's like, were there tons of black women multiples that just fell through the cracks en masse because of racism? Is medical multiplicity in some ways a white culture-bound syndrome and other cultures have their own ways of dealing? How is it we have this history of anti-rape campaigns and yet medical multiplicity, which is SO associated with sexual violence now, be completely absent in discussion of this portion of history?)
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Date: 2020-03-11 04:40 pm (UTC)Two people can get the exact same head injury and one will recover while the other develops impairments, and there's still no good way to predict who will go in which direction.
Yeah, and also, getting asphyxiated a lot probably could've done the job too. We definitely sometimes have trouble doing things, but who knows whether it's psychological or neurological at this point, and we've never been tested so will probably never know.
Oh man, ha, yeah, Doris Fischer was totally from an abusive home from what I read.
At the same time though, I feel a little... I dunno if dubious is right, since we're clearly a multiple whose multiplicity is influenced by trauma, but I also feel like... I dunno. I see how the concept of medical multi evolves over time, and how the abuse like gets worse and worse over the years as "acceptable" or the "norm" involving MPD/DID, and it still bothers me a little. Especially with how it ties into a lot of people's terror that their trauma "isn't bad enough" and how it's used to be a dick to people. And also because I still want there to be room for multiples who HAVEN'T experienced that. (Plus, can't lie, racism is still a big part of why I kinda go hmm. Because black women were fighting against institutionalized rape and child abuse in antilynching and antislavery activism, but medical multiplicity is STILL seen as such a "white lady" thing. It's like, were there tons of black women multiples that just fell through the cracks en masse because of racism? Is medical multiplicity in some ways a white culture-bound syndrome and other cultures have their own ways of dealing? How is it we have this history of anti-rape campaigns and yet medical multiplicity, which is SO associated with sexual violence now, be completely absent in discussion of this portion of history?)
--Rogan