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You know, hearing voices is thought to be a symptom of psychotic disorders in the same way that being multiple is a symptom of dissociative disorders. In the “only people with this type of disorder have this symptom” kind of way.
But hearing voices is much more common than people think, and is often neither harmful nor related to any psychotic disorders. See www.hearing-voices.org for more on that.
If voice hearing can be studied and proven to not be inherently symptomatic of schizophrenia or other disorders, then isn’t it possible that multiplicity can and will be one day?
If people who claim to hear voices are not being ableist to people with psychotic disorders, just by saying “This is what I experience and for me it isn’t a disorder”, then why can’t the exact same thing be said for multiples for whom their multiplicity isn’t a disorder?
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