Laura Albert of JT LeRoy literary hoax, who had, in effect, reported alternate personality in Paris Review and court, describes self as “avatar variant”

This real-life story illustrates the relationship of pseudonyms to alternate personalities, and the tendency of people to disavow having multiple personality.

http://www.theparisreview.org/miscellaneous/5664/being-jt-leroy-nathaniel-rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/nyregion/21writer.html?_r=0

http://www.filmreviewdaily.com/Reviews/Author%20The%20JT%20LeRoy%20Story.html

http://themuse.jezebel.com/the-writer-once-known-as-jt-leroy-lives-to-tell-another-1786387896