Disabled Alters/Hosts anyone?

We are curious if anyone else has an alter or host who has DIFFERENT disabilities of health conditions to what the actual physical body actually has? Why does this occur if a physical body has no health issues or actual disabilities?

Our original core person does have autism. (officially diagnosed) but another one is deaf and only comes out where there's going to be unpredictable noises the autistic host can't cope with due to noise phobia's and auditory processing issues. (or if they have to deal with people face to face)

One host arrived at a time where the physical body was actually experiencing mobility problems, but stayed for years after the symptoms got better, only ever appearing when the original host had to go out in public. She left the body in a bad way (and the house). Thankfully she agreed to go dormant so others can get back our health back on track.

We're just wondering how common this is? Or if in us it's the result of unusual circumstances and the original host having autism? ..and whether this has had a different effect on the type of alters/hosts created?

Hi there! I'm Jade. I'm currently host right now- the others are taking a much needed break.

Raven has at least three types of differently abled (I hate the word disabled) alters within her system, not counting her own quirks. There's two that are mute, one that is blind, and another that is deaf. Juri and Daryn are mute, Tyrael is blind and Lexi is deaf. Raven herself has shoddy balance and she suffers from something called Essential Tremors, and, according to Raven and the others all have varying degrees of Autism. As far as I know nearly all of them need glasses when fronting despite the fact that none have any on the inside.

It is apparently quite common for a system to have differently abled alters, but I am not sure if it is the norm so to speak.

Unfortunately I cannot answer you last question. I have no clue if Raven's differently abled people have had an effect on the way others were created or not. I am not a part of the system (literally) so I have no knowledge on how multiple are affected by differently abled system members; maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in in regard to that topic.

I hope I've helped at least a little bit.

It's a product of dissociation parts of the brain literally turn off. There is a famous case of a German woman who has a blind alter and tests were done because they thought she was faking, but brain scans showed the part of the brain responsible for possessing visual information would be dark when she was that alter.

We don't have anyone that severely or obviously affected physically when we switch. Some of us have issues with hypersensitive smell and touch. Some of us have IBS. Pixie gets headaches and feels lightheaded if she thinks about serious things or upsetting things. Nixie used to be mute and still really struggles with words.

From what I've read about people's experiences alters having different physical and mental capabilites is common and the extent of them ranges from mild to extreme with the more extreme end being less common.

Ok thanks for your answers. Yes I saw the article about the german woman.

Do you all work or any on disability benefits? do they know about your DID? or how do you explain being able to see or hear one time and not another? (when another host had stepped in). Or does one alter in particular always attend stuff like benefit reviews to give you a 'consistent front'?

JadeRain wrote:Hi there! I'm Jade. I'm currently host right now- the others are taking a much needed break.

Raven has at least three types of differently abled (I hate the word disabled) alters within her system, not counting her own quirks. There's two that are mute, one that is blind, and another that is deaf. Juri and Daryn are mute, Tyrael is blind and Lexi is deaf. Raven herself has shoddy balance and she suffers from something called Essential Tremors, and, according to Raven and the others all have varying degrees of Autism. As far as I know nearly all of them need glasses when fronting despite the fact that none have any on the inside.

It is apparently quite common for a system to have differently abled alters, but I am not sure if it is the norm so to speak.

Unfortunately I cannot answer you last question. I have no clue if Raven's differently abled people have had an effect on the way others were created or not. I am not a part of the system (literally) so I have no knowledge on how multiple are affected by differently abled system members; maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in in regard to that topic.

I hope I've helped at least a little bit.

Interesting, something like Essential Tremors is usually in the body full time, does the body only have the tremors when Raven is fronting it? if the deaf one is fronting and meets someone (assuming they rely on lip reading or can sign) what happens if the next time the person who met you your blind character is up front and can't see to communicate with them?

I don't have the full DID in this sense. For me one alter would 'front' for many years .. both Thea and Maddie have been front for around 15 years each. Kit is always around somewhere in the background but is only able to 'come out' when no-one else is about. Thea was closest to Kit personality wise and likes and dislikes, they presented a better single personality to the outside world, allowing Kit to be more 'present' in the outside world too. Kit and Thea want to be a team again but the world now knows 'Maddie' as this body's level of ability and personality. We can only come out as ourselves if we avoid any contact with anyone who knew Maddie so we spend our lives isolated so we can be ourselves again for most of the time.

tbh we have no idea whether Maddie is planning to come back if her friend wants to visit or if we have to pretend we're Maddie if we can't get out of the visit. We were hoping to have the body to ourselves at least until xmas (when we were going to allow Maddie to visit for when her friend came to bring xmas presents) I'm usually the one that visits family anyway so Kit can come along and slide in where she feels at home (her brother owns the family home where she grew up). But we were hoping to have improved some health issues by then so we'd have a better idea of just how much mobility we could regain and decide whether we should move house.

I read an article about a man who is now presumed to have had DID (the first known recorded case of it, is my understanding, and supposedly was the inspiration behind Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde).

When he was one person, he was paralyzed from the waist down, wouldn't eat much, was quiet and calm. But when his other part took over, he could walk, stole food, and was a jerk.

The brain... such an amazing thing, yet so much of it is largely a mystery!

Kitten

-- Mon Jul 30, 2018 9:18 am --

If kitten was that serious about a suicide attempt, I'd hijack the body and not let her out till *I* talked to the therapist. I'm pretty sure Delilah would help me lock kitten in if I needed assistance. I'm sorry you feel betrayed, but Jackie did you a favor.

If you kill yourself, you kill her. She clearly doesn't want you to kill her. And she wants you to to not kill yourself.

Sorry, I'm on Jackie's side on this one.

Britney

ItsJustUs wrote:[color=#8000FF]I read an article about a man who is now presumed to have had DID (the first known recorded case of it, is my understanding, and supposedly was the inspiration behind Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde).

When he was one person, he was paralyzed from the waist down, wouldn't eat much, was quiet and calm. But when his other part took over, he could walk, stole food, and was a jerk.

The brain... such an amazing thing, yet so much of it is largely a mystery!

Can you remember his name please? I'd be really interested to read that.

TW..and appology.

Crap, I totally posted in the wrong forum when I was talking about that Jackie person warning someone about a suicide attempt. So sorry about that guys. No wonder I thought my post had been deleted or "glitched" into non- existence. Sorry if I triggered anyone. Shoot!

Britney

-- Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:51 am --

KitMcDaydream wrote:

ItsJustUs wrote:I read an article about a man who is now presumed to have had DID (the first known recorded case of it, is my understanding, and supposedly was the inspiration behind Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde).

When he was one person, he was paralyzed from the waist down, wouldn't eat much, was quiet and calm. But when his other part took over, he could walk, stole food, and was a jerk.

The brain... such an amazing thing, yet so much of it is largely a mystery!

Can you remember his name please? I'd be really interested to read that.

I'm looking for it. I came across it on accident once and I can't remember his name. Hopefully I'll run across it on purpose this afternoon. LOL

B

-- Mon Jul 30, 2018 11:58 am --

KitMcDaydream wrote:

ItsJustUs wrote:[color=#8000FF]I read an article about a man who is now presumed to have had DID (the first known recorded case of it, is my understanding, and supposedly was the inspiration behind Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde).

When he was one person, he was paralyzed from the waist down, wouldn't eat much, was quiet and calm. But when his other part took over, he could walk, stole food, and was a jerk.

The brain... such an amazing thing, yet so much of it is largely a mystery!

Can you remember his name please? I'd be really interested to read that.

Louis Vivet. Here is a wikipedia page on him to get you started:

***TW*** It talks about the things that caused Vivet's split. so be prepared for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Vivet

Thanks!