“Nonbinary” (post 4): More inadvertent indications of multiple personality

The next mini-memoir in this “nonbinary” anthology also mentions a lack of self-recognition in a mirror (1, p. 63). This author then says, “The pieces of the world around me had become fractured and splintered” (1, p. 65) and uses the words “dissociated” (1, p. 64) and “dissociating” (1, p. 70) (multiple personality is classified as a dissociative disorder). But I would emphasize the hearing of an inner voice on page 64 where seven lines addressed to the author are rendered in italics (search “italics” for posts on this convention for indicating an inner voice), and when the author states “my inner self was screaming, ‘Don’t stop it’ ” (1, p. 69): An arguing or opinionated inner voice or self is probably an alternate personality.

1. Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane (Editors). Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity. New York, Columbia University Press, 2019.