Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> John Cowan wrote:
> > My daughter (age 13) and I were watching a program about dissociative identity
> > disorder (aka multiple personality disorder) two nights ago.  I explained
> > DID as the state in which you pretend to be lots of different people in order
> > to get away from very painful situations, and then lose track of the fact
> > that your pretends aren't real.
>
> I often feel like two people at the same time, one person feeling an
> emotion, and one person observing the person feeling the emotion.
>
I often feel like several people over a brief period of time. I don't
connect what I've experienced recently with what I've experienced a
while back, even if that while back is only a few minutes ago. I'll find
myself trying to discuss something with someone when we've already
discussed it, and I won't realized what I'm doing until they get mad or
I revert back to the state of mind where I remember everything.

It's interesting, because it's sometimes selective in what I can
remember from the past, and often rather disjointed, suggesting that I
actually do have more than one personality to some extent, rather than
just being plain forgetful about previous encounters with people, as
many will dismiss it as. Also, these patterns of selective memory
(theres a few of them) will pop up again and again, each time the
experiences when I'm in that state of mind will be added to it. Almost
like I cycle through them...

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Robert