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Postby shock_the_monkey » Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:46 am

by which i mean a sort of switch-mode personality, rather than the sort of multiple personality now referred to as dissociative identity disorder.

mine, obviously, is my monkey persona. i've actually found this allows me a very high degree of freedom from my past experiences. because they're not a part of this persona they don't impinge upon it as they do my normal persona. and i can find myself slipping into this persona almost seamlessly, without even trying. i even find myself thinking in monkey speak, which is a sort of rather truncated and simplistic english. the really great thing about my monkey persona is that it has an innocence that i've long since lost. monkey is carefree and happy go lucky ... and more than a bit cheeky too. basically, all the things that i never really was. however, there's one thing that monkey shares with me ... though he'd never admit it - when he has to be he's very clever - monkeys are much too modest for that.
something knocked me out' the trees
now i'm on my knees
... don't you know you're gonna shock the monkey

there is one thing you must be sure of
i can't take any more
... don't you know you're gonna shock the monkey

don't like it but i guess i'm learning

... shock the monkey to life
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Re: do you have an alter ego ...

Postby AprilR » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:58 pm

Long time no see Shock! And congratulations! :) :o you certainly deserve your new status!
On to the topic, im not sure if i can call it an alter ego, but i had a kind of superficial, too positive "personality" for some years. I often slip to this personality when i'm stressed because i don't have a lot of people i can talk to and i often have to cheer myself up. I try to role play in a sense, hoping it will come true. By the way, my father also has one of these and he often talks about himself in third person! :D
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Postby shock_the_monkey » Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:41 am

hi AprilR,

i hope that you're still tuning into radio monkey - we miss our one and only listener!!! :wink:

very best wishes,

shock.
something knocked me out' the trees
now i'm on my knees
... don't you know you're gonna shock the monkey

there is one thing you must be sure of
i can't take any more
... don't you know you're gonna shock the monkey

don't like it but i guess i'm learning

... shock the monkey to life
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Re: do you have an alter ego ...

Postby pamelaperejil » Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:58 am

This is a post copied from BPD:

I don't choose my personas, they choose me. Almost like demonic possession.

I may be the good girl, trying to do the right thing in an ugly world.
I may be the neurotic bitch, wreaking vengeance on those who slight me.
I may be the autist, so focussed on one thing that the rest of the world just melts away.
I may be the self righteous sniper, patting myself on the back while secretly gunning down everyone I meet for one flaw or other.
I may be the performer, desperately needy and starved for approval and attention.
I may be the con artist, cynically sizing up a target.
I may be the sinner, beating myself bloody to atone for my sins.
I may be the hedonist, succumbing to the nearest pleasure.
Etc. You get the idea.

They come and go, seemingly of their own accord. I have no idea how or why.
previously: pleasnpetrichor, perejil

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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