BASIC CONCEPTS

— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.

— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.

— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.

— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.

— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.

— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.

— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.

— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.

— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.

— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.

— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Why does President Trump repeatedly lie about where his father was born?

I just heard in the news that President Trump said his father was born in Germany; whereas, his father was actually born in New York. And I see online that this is at least the fourth occasion on which he has told this particular lie.

Like Trump’s many other lies, this lie is so preposterous and easily checkable that any ordinary explanation just won’t work. And he is not stupid, so why would he do it?

In line with my previous speculation that Trump has multiple personality trait, I wonder if this lie can be attributed to an alternate personality. Keep in mind that multiple personality may be thought of as multiple reality, since each alternate personality has its own view of reality, which, unlike the reality of the host personality, may not be objective reality.

One possibility would be an alternate personality who sincerely believes that his father was born in Germany.

Another possibility would be an alternate personality who is designed to tell momentarily convenient lies in total disregard of later consequences, because it has no sense of the future, and lives purely in the moment.
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