Last updated November 16, 2020.
Contents
New Things
Introduction
FAQ’s by other multiples
Mainstream News articles
Large Resources, including practical advice
Conferences
New Things
The Plural Assocation
Finally a non-profit for and by our community, check it out!
Guide to Getting Involved in Plural Activism
The Rings System and Alexandrite System (who both have YouTube channels and other social media) created an easy to use page that gives a great introduction to work to help empower and change the world for and by we who are many in one body.
Redwoods in viral YouTube Video – our interview with Anthony Padilla has almost 10 million views. His videos of this style start with presenting a lot of stereotypes to reach a wide audience before breaking them down.
Redwoods on Coming out as Plural Panel
We were on a great panel with other systems as part of the Plural Positivity World Conference 2020 – the runtime is only 1 hour, the rest was chat time. Check out the other videos on that channel!
Introduction: the internet is multiple
We used to think we needed to write a book about being multiple. Being more than one person in one body understandably “blows people’s minds” when they first hear about it, and can also bring up strong concerns or objections and major questions. We were answering so many questions in our personal lives, we thought we needed to write an explainer. But stigma had a funny way of stopping us from simply using Google. Once we got over that fear, and spent lots of time combing search engine results, we found trove after trove of writings by multiples. Yet many were in-depth, or for niche topics or audiences, leaving us without a single link to send to interested family and friends.
This is our attempt to weave a path, and create a guide. This is just a list of links, we haven’t summarized or constructed any meta-narrative, just a good list. Personal experience is a powerful educator, and while people speak sometimes about their understanding of multiplicity at large, almost all acknowledge the fact that there is little that is definitive or universal. If your work is included here and you’d rather it not, contact us. Also feel free to contact us with suggested additions.
different FAQs written by multiples
The Same questions tend to come up again and again. The best way to get a sense of these and the answers is to read how several different multiples answer these questions. Consider that they have also influenced each other to some degree in some cases.
that multiple feel FAQ –
a fun interactive tumblr account
Astraea’s web FAQ
site has been around since the 1990s, still active.
Our own FAQ in case you haven’t read it!
Remember that many multiples either describe mostly just their own experience, and where they speak about larger truths they are often efforts to counter common misconceptions but by no means definitive.
Mainstream media coverage
Best overall mainstream article
Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder? | VICE | United States
later covered on NPR – http://snapjudgment.org/better-half
An example of the fascinating neurobiology of being multiple
The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see – Washington Post
New 2019-ish mainstream coverage
The Best Cartoonist You’ve Never Heard of Is Actually Eight People
Cosmopolitan – I Have 13 Different Identities Living Inside of Me. Here’s What Our Lives Are Like.
YouTube
MultiplicityAndMe – YouTube
This is a young British system who made some great videos about their experience and is now pursuing a career in psychology. Their experience, nor anyone’s, represents all multiples, but they are a great example of younger systems out in the world and on youtube.
Others
Devii Uniquely Three – YouTube
Podcasts
The We in Me podcast by Erika Reva on all podcast platforms
There is a great podcast interviewing other multiples and their supporters
http://multiplicity101.com/
the recordings have been taken down but the transcripts are here.
Large Troves of Information, including practical advice
kinhost.org is a wiki that includes some deep resources such as “multiplicity: the missing manual.”
healthymultiplicity.com has a lot of links and guides
Conferences
New: Plural Positivity World Conference – several systems put together a free online conference – you can still view the 2019 videos at the link
IGDID conference – Seattle – October
An Infinite Mind: Healing Together – Orlando Florida – February
both of these established conferences have a significant presence of community and clinicians and generally emphasize trauma, recovery, and Dissociative Identity Disorder. We are not associated with these conferences, but have been to both, and if you would like advice on whether they might be a right fit for you that’s a great use of our navigation services.
Books
Some folks who are many in one body find resources on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder useful.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
P.S. a good personal blog post on CPTSD and Allostatic Load
On navigating
This topic is vast and the resources are in-depth. You can self-educate a lot. And at the same time if you have a burning question or would rather talk through this, you can contact us.