Troper Tales

#118419

This troper’s first love suffered from multiple personality disorder. We’d been friends for about a year before our first date, but I didn’t find out about her "condition" until just a few minutes after the first time I kissed her. Her separate personalities would always surge to the surface when she was experiencing strong emotion (which, in our case, meant any time we started to get intimate). The first time it happened, she just pulled away from me and asked flatly, “Who the hell are you?” Another time, we were kissing on the couch in her living room when she suddenly grabbed me by the throat and demanded to know who I was and what I was doing in her house. In the end, we split up because she was afraid that she might physically hurt me if it happened again. Despite her condition, she was an incredibly intelligent, beautiful woman with more talent and creativity than I’ve ever known one person to have. Letting her go was one of the hardest things I ever had to do.

#118420

This troper dates a woman with severe Dissociative Identity Disorder. There are 10 personalities: Two of them frequently try to seduce me, two others have no concept of sexuality or really relationships beyond fairy-tale romance, they all represent various aspects of her personality, and there's no real way to predict when they'll change. If I didn't love the main one (my girlfriend), it would be impossible to deal with things like having your girlfriend slap you across the face and call you a rapist. Wacky, anime-style RomCom that makes you feel like a pedophile? {{Deconstruction}} can be brutal.

#118421

These tropers...well, this one can't speak for everyone of us, and we don't know their System as well as they do, but I would recomend that you might try to think of them as more than just personalities, or aspects of a single person. If you think of them as such, you de-humanize them, which they probably understand, and some may even resent you for that. If you think of them as real people, with their own opinions, and their own rights that they deserve, if you show them kindness and treat them in such a way that they may never have been treated before, it may go a long way to winning you over with the rest of them. But, obviously, don't do it just to try to make them like you, because that would defeat the whole purpose.

#118422

This troper also dates a girl with DID, but it's not as severe, and she more or less has complete control. Four personalities, excluding the main one: happiness, love, sadness/hate, and...well, a new one recently came about, and our best guess is that it's her inner child. Happiness is a devout christian, but the rest are all atheists/agnostic, which has led to some crazy {{Values Dissonance}}, but still, we get along on some level. My girlfriend and I have also redefined open relationships, as she actively encourages me to flirt with her inner child, and the love personality is one of my closest friends, and a great confidant. Hate/sadness and I were enemies for a time, but she has said that she'll be leaving anyway, so that problem has resolved itself. Fortunately, my girlfriend is very in touch with the personalities, so they won't switch unless something is about to harm the body (my girlfriend used to self injure). Regardless, it's all going very well, and it's not really any inconvenience, it's just like having 4 friends that happen to share a body.

#118423

This troper has some characters with major split personality issues and some people complain that this makes it interesting but a major MindScrew for those with SanitySlippage.

#118424

...As of Summer 2010, the "voice in my head" has...gone away. Hir name is/was Lunalis, Luna for short. As Moriko no Hikari of FFN, shi was in effect my leash, keeping me from going overboard when I reviewed. Shi also took this role with my Skype friends. I miss you, sister. Please come back...

#118425

Borderline personality disorder. I have many personalities, but shared memories and the like. What makes this particularly frustrating, is that I/we are never sure which one of us is currently in control, and it's impossible for me/us to classify all of the personalities because they change so rapidly. Often, the personalities are opposites of each other as well, so a success to one of them is a failure to another, which never works out well. The worst part is the original personality. Let's call him X. We're not sure if we're parts of X, if he's gone, or dead, or damaged, and we think to pull ourselves together, we need to find X, or find out what happened to him. Can anyone gives us any advice on this?

#118426

These tropers also have a few "Headmates." Though, we prefer being called "Multiples," and we're not just "aspects" of a single personality, we all have our own minds, and opinions. We're not one person split up into many pieces, we're many people crammed in a single body. There are eighteen of us, and we have full communication between each other. We find this very easy to live with, and it's even useful many, many times, allowing us to do countless things no one else can do because of our situation. If something stresses one of us out, we can just try to switch someone else in control, or if we need to understand something, we can work it out together silently.

#118427

This troper's friends, as well as her herself, are convinced she has plenty of these. She is a DeadpanSnarker, ShrinkingViolet, Tsundere, GenkiGirl, DitzyGenius, CuteClumsyGirl, CloudCuckoolander, OnlySaneMan, TheDeterminator, Tomboy, TheChick, LittleMissBadass, TheHero (wannabe, anyway), TheChessmaster, BrattyHalfPint, CoolBigSis, in it purely ForTheEvuls, DumbBlonde AND BrainyBrunette (my hair color falls somewhere in between), YamatoNadeshiko, InsufferableGenius, KidDetective, FemmeFatale, and trust me, the list goes on and on and ON...

#118428

No! let's go Here!

#118429

Quiet you.

#118430

No, ''you'' be quiet.

#118431

No, '''you''' be quiet.

#118432

Why don't you '''''both''''' be quiet?

#118433

Why are you taking it out on me?