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You have it backwards: all of her personalities were blind, and then the sight returned for one of them. With therapy, now only two personalities still experien

You have it backwards: all of her personalities were blind, and then the sight returned for one of them. With therapy, now only two personalities still experience blindness. The fact that her episodes of hysterical blindness coincide with the so-called transition to specific personalities is interesting, but not definitive. Even if we accept DID as a legitimate condition, that doesn't mean these separate personalities are real entities in their own right. On of the patients personalities is a 13 year old boy, with all the memories of a 13 year old boy. But these memories are completely false: they did not actually occur. People with DID don't have multiple selves, they have no self at all: their personality is shattered and stitched together by a patchwork of delusions and artificial personality traits.

azakai 11y ago
> You have it backwards: all of her personalities were blind, and then the sight returned for one of them. We are saying the same thing. Some of the personalities are neurologically (not just psychologically) blind, some are not. That's a fascinating result, and certainly suggests that the different personalities are distinct not just psychologically but also at a far deeper level. > People with DID don't have multiple selves, they have no self at all It's not clear that your description and the article's are not the same, except for a preference for calling the same state "multiple selves" vs "no self." Both descriptions agree that something "shattered", and both agree that neurologically the split shards/personalities are remarkably distinct, on every level. I don't think there is a disagreement here.
- openasocket 11y ago
  On a second reading, you're absolutely right. My bad!