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rise13eyond
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Default Jan 29, 2019 at 07:29 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Amyjay View Post
That's awesome. It's so cool that he can express himself through art work.

It's important to remember that five year old alters do not literally possess the skills and abilities of an actual five year old. They do possess an element of developmental stuckness as they were split off and separately contained, but some types of memory and learning cross the amnesiac barriers. For instance narrative and declarative memory might be restricted to an alter, but the ability to walk and talk, feed oneself, or even complex actions such as reading and writing or even driving a car might be shared. Or they might not be. It may depend on what was needed.
Just saying that comparing the skills of an alter to a same aged child doesn't work. An alter may be only say 8 years old, but they could either share or "inherit" the ability to do a certain task from other alters, or they could have been practicing an 8 year old skill for 20 years or more. A child alter really isn't the developmental equivalent of an actual child of the same age.

In terms of art a member of my own system is apparently quite artistic because people sometimes show us paintings or whatever that apparently "I" made for them years ago, but I have absolutely no memory of either creating them or even seeing them before in my lifetime, so I don't know how that works. Even though I know the reason is dissociation it still really astounds me when it happens. I have no concept of myself as an artist and can't draw or paint anything.
Well I mean that does make sense. To my knowledge that's all he's drawn. I mean he likes to make butterflies out of legos and those are pretty impressive. Not everyone in the system draws or does some form of art. I do, Kitty does although all she draws is kitties, and someone else doodles when he'd bored. I guess it's in part a bit of body memory, like how you can go to ride a bike perfectly fine even after not having done it for years. I dunno I have no idea what I'm talking about i should probably stop.

I kinda think the entire system is in a bit of an odd place. The body is almost 29, yet has a form of autism, so developmentally it's a bit odd. I think most everyone has shown some symptoms of that, but I dunno if I know everyone well enough to say that. So Kevin is in an adult body that's a bit socially retarded...A weird mix of grown up and immature. I'm absolutely immature at times and I'm the one who identifies as the body's identity, or something close to that.

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