User talk:Battrarules

Hi, you asked me about why I refer to myself as having Asperger autism yet have done everything I could to detract the psychiatric view of multiple personalities, and indeed don't believe in most of what modern psychiatry says. I want to thank you for your question and hope this is the appropriate place to answer it.

I am not sure "autism" exists either except as a certain set of behaviors and perceptual variations which the non-autistic population seem to think are bizarre and in need of control (theirs). The dominant culture at least recognizes autism, and also recognizes, thanks to a growing publicity campaign by certain educators as well as people such as Amanda Baggs over at autistics.org, that autism is not the life-ending tragedy it's been made out to be. Educational systems tailored specifically for autistics are already underway.

Multiplicity has a long way to go before it achieves anything like this kind of public recognition and quasi-acceptance. Have a look at this if you're interested; Multiple Personality & the Media

Because I have been engaged for ten years in trying to correct media and public misapprehensions of what is really a very normal experience, healthy multiplicity now has a very small web presence and there are a handful of people who know what you're talking about when you say it. It has its own wikipedia article, and so I figured I could create a userbox linking to that.

So I can say "healthy plural" or "healthy multiple" as an alternative to MPD, DID, etc.

However, autistic culture still uses the word "autism" to refer to the behaviors and variations labeled "autism" by the medical establishment, and until they come up with a better word, if I want to tell people what I am and have them understand it, I have to say autistic or Asperger. Please feel free to ask any further questions you may have. You can also reach me at ksol1460 at listen dot to.

Thank you, --Bluejay Young 00:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Your recent changes to healthy multiplicity
I do think these articles need some work, and thank you for volunteering your help. The difficulty with wikipedia is in the way you have to state things. As you know from the wikipedia guidelines, when there is a subjective experience under discussion, you can't state it as a fact. There's a difference between, say, "Astraea's system is made up of a group of aliens from a parallel dimension" and "Bluejay Young reports that he experiences multiple personalities, describing them as a group of aliens from a parallel dimension."

Things like other worlds, the forms people take, etc., probably belong in Controversies at this point. Actually I'm thinking of overhauling our FAQ to reflect that these are subjective experiences. I just think it needs more work. (By the way, the FAQ is referenced in External Links, so no need to reference it again in the article. Make a footnote instead.) --Bluejay Young 02:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)