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The Multiple Code

A Geek Code for multiple personalities: the Multiple Code.

Number (N*)

The number of (known) people who make up your system.

N---! Huh? There's only one (1) to this body!
N--- Two (2) to Three (3)
N-- Four (4) to Ten (10)
N- Eleven (11) to Twenty (20)
N Twentyone (21) to Fifty (50)
N+ Fiftyone (51) to Sixty (60)
N++ Sixtyone (61) to Eighty (80)
N+++ Eightyone (81) to One Hundred (100)
N++++ One Hundred (100) to One Thousand (1,000)
N++++! Over One Thousand (1,000+)
N~ Not one, not many -- mid-continuum.
N? Darned if we know!

The other parameters get much stranger from a singleton's perspective, covering the species of the personalities, which can range from human to familiar animal to dinosaur to alien to vampire, the worlds the personalities exist in when they're not in the body, and how the personalities came to share the body (which offers lots more choices than splitting.)

It really makes me feel I should be doing more with my brain.

I found this on Astraea's Multiplicity Resources, where there's lots more fascinating stuff. I found that on Matt Ruff's Multiplicity Links page, from his Set This House in Order page.

And I finished the book. It is wonderful. Read the excerpt. Buy the book. Lose sleep finishing it.

Comments

I have to wonder how many of these "multiple personality" people actually have a medical condition and how many of them are just exaggerating the effects of a very active imagination. Everyone has several sides to their personality, and lots of creative people have several well-developed characters who exist only in their heads. That doesn't mean that they have true multiple personalities.

Well, I guess it doesn't do anyone any harm. Everyone needs to feel special somehow and this is how some people do it.

The mistake is in thinking of multiplicity as a medical condition at all. The reason it was categorised that way is that a few very fucked-up people came to the attention of some publicity-hungry shrinks.

The only difference between us and the people you mention is that we acknowledge our selves as persons in their own right.

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