Books about multiples/those with DID

[Bookish]

here is a listopia with some books on it

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21...

[Fenix]

good list...i have in my bookshelves also a list of multiple books..i love that there are so many showing how diverse beign multiple is, books written by mutlipes, books written by t's and psychs..itis good to have that diversity of information to choose from

[Bookish]

good to hear - please add any new books you know of or link to reviews

[Bookish]

found an interesting list tday http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/boo...

[Bookish]

excellent list here too, with reviews
http://mpbooks.artefact.org.nz/book/

[Astraea]

Bookish wrote: "found an interesting list tday http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/boo..."

Thank you, we are continually updating and adding new books to that page. We invite people to pay particular attention to the older, historical books showing that multiplicity was known and studied pre-Sybil, Eve etc.

I might write a separate entry for this group just covering those older books.

Jay Young

[Iamshadow]

Astraea wrote: "Bookish wrote: "found an interesting list tday http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/boo..."

Thank you, we are continually updating and adding new books to that page. We invite people to pay parti..."

I still think the Victorian era accounts that are all mixed up with spiritualism are my favourites, probably because I like Victorian literature. I have a copy of The Fasting Girl that I love, but I think the first ever account I read of a multiple system was in an article in a battered old book on the supernatural that was hiding in my school library with the books on ghosts and aliens. I think it might have been Doris Fischer&. I mean, later in high school I did read Sybil, but I knew about Doris before Sybil.

[Astraea]

Iamshadow wrote: "I still think the Victorian era accounts that are all mixed up with spiritualism are my favourites, probably because I like Victorian literature."

You'll be pleased to know that Survival After Death is back up (for good this time!) with Myers, Prince, James, McDougall and all the rest. I love that site.

I wonder if your book was Here, Mr. Splitfoot -- I have it, but it's in the other room and I'll have to page through it later. We had it and many other books on the occult and ESP in our high school library, oddly enough as it was in a very Christian Fundamentalist community.

Jay

[Iamshadow]

Astraea wrote: You'll be pleased to know that ..."

Yeah, I don't think it was; I think it was just a hardbound book with what basically amounted to ghost stories and articles on spirit writing and things in it, probably called something bland like 'Tales of the Supernatural'. If I'm remembering correctly, it had stories about the nun that haunts Abbey House and a woman who played incredible piano while channelling some famous pianist, too. I loved all that kind of stuff in my mid teens.

[Bookish]

There are a lot of reviews listed on here, although some are very, very short http://mpbooks.artefact.org.nz

[Chana]

Have any of you read the books by Donna Williams, who in addition to autism has DID? I read a really interesting interview in which she talks about her alters. Haven't read the books yet — the first is Nobody Nowhere.

[Astraea]

We read Nobody Nowhere when it first came out and Somebody Somewhere, also saw Donna on CBS' 60 Minutes with her Irlen lenses.*

Donna has corresponded with us several times to advise us on how to present her books on our books page. (That's why it says to buy them straight from the publisher, especially Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding.)

We've never talked to her much about her multiplicity, but she talks about her multiplicity (and everyone else's) here. (She's apparently been told that an autistic couldn't be plural. Ha!)

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* Irlens are not just for autistics but for anyone who has trouble with migraine headaches, dyslexia, or even just plain old eyestrain. Amorpha have been wearing them for several years now and describe them as radically normalizing their visual perceptions so they don't have to use up energy figuring out what they are actually seeing.

[Iamshadow]

Astraea wrote: "We read Nobody Nowhere when it first came out and Somebody Somewhere, also saw Donna on CBS' 60 Minutes with her Irlen lenses.*

Donna has corresponded with us several times to advise us on how to..."

My partner and I went and got tinted a few months ago. She's been wearing hers for over a month now, and they've helped cut down the amount of migraines she's been getting by a lot. She's dyslexic, too, and the tints help with that.

My uncut lenses are still sitting in the postbag, waiting for us to have enough money. Beginning of September, maybe.

[Bookish]

Astrea - the description of Katherines It's Time refers to her/them as "of those fascinating multiples".

It makes them sounds like some kind of Victorian curiousity to be stared at and put on to "perform" for people's entertainment.

Chana - thanks for the info on Donna Williams. I will check it out

[Fenix]

I just finished reading Katerine It's Time.

[Astraea]

We (mostly Andy) have been working on a review of Katherine, It's Time. We need to finish it up and post it on the book's Goodreads page. Bookish is right, it's awful.

Molly