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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Friday, September 23, 2022

Essay on “nonbinary” terminology and investigative report on Herschel Walker in today's newspapers

Since I’ve written past posts on both “nonbinary” issues and Herschel Walker (a friend of former President Trump who has published a memoir about his own diagnosed multiple personality), I note both the essay on "nonbinary" and the report on Walker in today’s newspapers.


The essayist on nonbinary and transgender terminology decries what he considers tagging every tomboy as transgender (1). I do not necessarily agree with him, but his statistics are startling.


The article of investigative reporting on Walker says he lied about contributing to charities (2). I have discussed lying as a characteristic of some people with multiple personality that is associated with their success as fiction writers, who sometimes jokingly call themselves "professional liars."


Search “nonbinary,” “Herschel Walker,” and “lying” for past posts.


1. Colin Wright. https://www.wsj.com/articles/every-tomboy-is-tagged-transgender-transsexual-gender-dysphoria-children-hormones-clinic-terminology-expectations-11663872092

2. David A. Fahrenthold and Shane Goldmacher. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/politics/herschel-walker-charity-donations.html

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