thread going downhillll

I am absolutely speechless.

This is the most astounding thing ever.

I don't understand this at all. Seems to me like this would be the ideal place to discuss whether the underlying condition is "real" (whatever that means).

It makes sense on the surface but the problem is once you give a green light to that it would inevitably turn into hundreds of posts long convoluted cycle of people repeating the same things over and over again without anyone changing anyones mind. And the OP and his stories, which are far more interesting to most people, would get piled under.

Speaking as "some people," I wasn't trying to troll, and I wasn't trying to impose my morality*. The situation is difficult to process as described and I feel invited further discussion -- paternal yet sexually active with her, she knows she's 23 when she's "nine" but also has total lapses into the other personalities on other occasions. I wanted to know how that worked: the gone-but-not-really feature with the young one that only sometimes happens with the others.

*(Although I resolutely maintain that it's wrong to sex a nine-year-old, and am not certain about the responsibility of getting down with someone who believes they're nine, considering her history of sexual abuse around that age. Just seems like whacking a hornet's nest to me.)

Yeah, that make sense I guess. And fwiw, OP's doing a good job dealing with the sidetracks.

He is.

Exactly

Love. This. Thread.

orly?

pretty sure he'd be happy for his girl.

ohh okay. i understand it better now. i thought you kept them in her life cuz you felt you had to cuz they're her family but that makes more sense now.

lol thats already weird to you?
thats kinda standard. i bet even drunk people do that once in a while.

I can not believe you are so interested in humans.

During her amnesia, did you make up some fake new stories just to see how she is reacting ?

And perhaps, if you hadn't posted in such a firm/absolute/flame-type manner, it might have flown under the radar.

Yeah, I'm having a bit of trouble with this part of it as well. I can't think it's "healthy" for someone, reportedly abused as a child, to be expressing herself sexually in a 9yo mentality.

My gut says this isn't a "healing" path....

Im halfway through my new favorite thread ever but just wanted to make a point.

Even if OP completely gets off on her being crazy so what? At least they are both happy.

Because you're a lawyer it doesn't surprise me that you assumed me saying it was completely inappropriate had anything/much to do with legal issues.

The "illegal" fyp was facetious.

Grunching so sry if these have been asked yet...
1) If one of her next personalities would turn out to be a guy who only wanted to give head and receive anal would you still hit it?
2) Do you think you should be prosecuted for sex with a minor if not why not?

Anything about grunching in the rules yet?

Anyway, cool thread OP, I enjoyed it a lot.

Oh hey!

I guess both have been asked yet, too lazy to search but it would be really strange if you'd sex the guy and not think you should be persecuted (unless I suppose you're bisexual)

thanks for your input!!!!!

Amazing thread OP. I think it would be interesting if you wrote a little more about the mom. It seems that she's bat**** insane herself, but I'm specifically interested in the time you had the "uncle discussion" with her. Does she feel horrible for letting the uncle molest her daughter or did she try to rationalize it?

Also, is most of the uncle's family aware that he molested Michelle and her mom?

How do her personalities manifest themselves when she dreams? I ask because this thread creeps me out, I've had repressed memories of abuse (nothing sexual) that came out several years ago, from a dream I had about the experience. I've also had weird personality experiences, but mostly when I'm dreaming. Thanks.

That reminds me of another question, not really relating to myself but did she repress the memory of her uncle's abuse?

Yes, I agree with this perspective, and wrote a little about it earlier in the thread. It's kind of like a mutual fiction that builds between her and the people around her. That's why I feel like OP should consider the effect of his participation in her fantasy so to speak.

OP: Do the two of you have a goal of re-integrating her into one person or do you both just accept that there will always be many personalities?

There is a difference between a mental illness which happens without the patient's participation, and one that requires the patient to create the fictional narrative which is the disorder in this case.

It's kind of like a self-fullfilling prophesy. The flip side of that is that they may have the power to minimize this condition if they choose to start interpreting her thoughts and behaviors in a different way.

The amnesia is almost certainly psychogenic, and not "real" in the sense of being neurologically caused. Temporary and complete retrograde amnesia (forgetting past events) like the one described by OP (and by cartoons and movies) almost never happens, mostly because of the way memories are stored in distributed patterns throughout the brain. It's quite common to lose the ability to form new memories from a neurological condition, but the way this amnesia is described is 100% psychogenic.