What is the most common stereotype about multiples/multiplicity?
– The idea that “everyone lives in my head”, as if everyone in our group didn’t have a mind of their own and only existed in one other person’s mind. We share a single body. We aren’t in each others minds in the way that statement makes it sound. – The idea that every group must have a deranged psychopath in there somewhere who terrorizes the others. – Every person in a group being only an emotion or a job, with no room to do or be anything else. Like the child, the angry one, the crying one, the slutty one, the strong one, etc. It’s alright if some actually fit into a category like that as long as they know it’s okay for the angry one to be silly and happy if she wants to be. – The idea that there is always some sort of deep dark secret that one is keeping from everyone else. It’s okay if it’s true for some, but it doesn’t mean it’s true for everyone. – Switching fronters does not mean the body experiences some epileptic fit and twitches on the floor. – Not all children in a group are
