Comments on: Losing Time - Dissociative Identity Disorder and the real time travellers. http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/ Ever the arty Autie Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:29:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Secret Shadows http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-21128 Secret Shadows Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:04:15 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-21128 I really enjoyed reading this. I have DID, and guess what I do for a living? I teach children with autism. I have definitely seen the link there. There are things somehow I seem to "get" that others do not. There are ways I understand these children that I just could not explain, but over the years I have noted the similarities between DID and autism. I have also found that some of the interventions I use for my students to help them get and stay grounded help me as well. It's really interesting. Now, when I look into the eyes of my students, there's this knowledge that somewhere, somehow we share something similar. Secret Shadows I really enjoyed reading this. I have DID, and guess what I do for a living? I teach children with autism. I have definitely seen the link there. There are things somehow I seem to “get” that others do not. There are ways I understand these children that I just could not explain, but over the years I have noted the similarities between DID and autism. I have also found that some of the interventions I use for my students to help them get and stay grounded help me as well. It’s really interesting. Now, when I look into the eyes of my students, there’s this knowledge that somewhere, somehow we share something similar.

Secret Shadows

]]> By: kathleen browning http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-19128 kathleen browning Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:09:02 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-19128 I have an anxiety dissorder as well as did and ptsd. I have therapy twice a week with counselors. Every time i go into one she always wants me to name who she's talking to. I hate that because I switch so often under stress it's hard to do. I don't think she understands how hard it is to stay in the now. Every once in a while I can stay with it for the whole hour and it's ok but she puts me under stress when she demands to know who is there. Why can't she tell who is there. I have an anxiety dissorder as well as did and ptsd. I have therapy twice a week with counselors.
Every time i go into one she always wants me to name who she’s talking to. I hate that because
I switch so often under stress it’s hard to do. I don’t think she understands how hard it is to stay
in the now. Every once in a while I can stay with it for the whole hour and it’s ok but she puts
me under stress when she demands to know who is there. Why can’t she tell who is there.

]]> By: donna http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17657 donna Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:59:03 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17657 I do know there are some recent books about DID and autism I have met one woman dx'd with both autism can come with a range of co-morbids you can find info on 'autism fruit salads' in The Jumbled Jigsaw there's also a chapter in there on identity issues don't know anything about head rolling but if it drives you crazy doesn't sound like a stim there is a head rolling tic strange that it only fires at bedtime though. I do know there are some recent books about DID and autism
I have met one woman dx’d with both
autism can come with a range of co-morbids
you can find info on ‘autism fruit salads’ in The Jumbled Jigsaw
there’s also a chapter in there on identity issues

don’t know anything about head rolling
but if it drives you crazy doesn’t sound like a stim
there is a head rolling tic
strange that it only fires at bedtime though.

]]> By: tammy http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17656 tammy Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:27:35 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17656 I was excited to FINALLY find SOMETHING about the combo of DID and autism. You stated that there are many people liek that...where? Where can I find any sites pertaining to such? Also, I have been desiring to know something all my life (I'm 38y/o now) and that is soemthing that I've always wondered what it comes from? now i wonder if it is autism. Is anyone here willing to be honest and tell me if they also STILL roll their heads at bedtime (yes, just like tiny babies and children do). I still do this and it drives me crazy why! Also, anyone who knows any informative sites about this i would LOVE it! I havent found a thing in 10 years about adult head-rolling or even that I'm not the only person in this world that does it. thanks, tammy I was excited to FINALLY find SOMETHING about the combo of DID and autism. You stated that there are many people liek that…where? Where can I find any sites pertaining to such? Also, I have been desiring to know something all my life (I’m 38y/o now) and that is soemthing that I’ve always wondered what it comes from? now i wonder if it is autism. Is anyone here willing to be honest and tell me if they also STILL roll their heads at bedtime (yes, just like tiny babies and children do). I still do this and it drives me crazy why! Also, anyone who knows any informative sites about this i would LOVE it! I havent found a thing in 10 years about adult head-rolling or even that I’m not the only person in this world that does it.

thanks,
tammy

]]> By: donna http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17379 donna Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:18:27 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17379 I find the title 'mixed personality disorder' pretty funny as we all have a variety of personality traits. My primary traits include solitary, idiosyncratic, vigilant, artistic, self sacrificing. On a lesser level I have some level of the serious, conscientious, sensitive and devoted. I guess mixed personality disorder is where one has one's traits in disorder proportions. Sounds like a more informed dx than MPD. I've met people with BPD. I can understand what it is to not want to have a self, to want to disappear or be invisible, but with BPD I understand such people have very poorly defined sense of self and enjoy deep entanglements in which they become the person they fixate on. As a highly individualistic idiosyncratic, a highly autonomous vigilant and an intimacy phobic solitary I can't think of much more scary than that - not meaning to offend - just closeness is hard enough, but understanding a person's need for deep entanglement is very hard for me. Yes, I have known people on the spectrum who have BPD, there's a bit of separatism toward them, as many people on the spectrum like predictability and personal space and Borderlines struggle to provide either of those for those they get 'into'. I'm sure its very hard to belong to a group which may sometimes find entanglements way too full on. I think lack of short term memory is common and mega B complex may help with that for some people. Personally, I have a 'serial memory'. I can replay anything I've been physically involved in. So I can characterise the actions (and sometimes dialogue) of those involved with me, decades after such involvement. I'm sure this makes me more susceptible to PTSD than those without this 'inability to forget'. It's apparently a 'filtering' fault... my brain just doesn't throw stuff out very well. But short term memory is really poor... it all seems to go straight to long term. I find the title ‘mixed personality disorder’ pretty funny as we all have a variety of personality traits. My primary traits include solitary, idiosyncratic, vigilant, artistic, self sacrificing. On a lesser level I have some level of the serious, conscientious, sensitive and devoted. I guess mixed personality disorder is where one has one’s traits in disorder proportions. Sounds like a more informed dx than MPD.

I’ve met people with BPD. I can understand what it is to not want to have a self, to want to disappear or be invisible, but with BPD I understand such people have very poorly defined sense of self and enjoy deep entanglements in which they become the person they fixate on. As a highly individualistic idiosyncratic, a highly autonomous vigilant and an intimacy phobic solitary I can’t think of much more scary than that - not meaning to offend - just closeness is hard enough, but understanding a person’s need for deep entanglement is very hard for me.

Yes, I have known people on the spectrum who have BPD, there’s a bit of separatism toward them, as many people on the spectrum like predictability and personal space and Borderlines struggle to provide either of those for those they get ‘into’. I’m sure its very hard to belong to a group which may sometimes find entanglements way too full on.

I think lack of short term memory is common and mega B complex may help with that for some people. Personally, I have a ’serial memory’. I can replay anything I’ve been physically involved in. So I can characterise the actions (and sometimes dialogue) of those involved with me, decades after such involvement. I’m sure this makes me more susceptible to PTSD than those without this ‘inability to forget’. It’s apparently a ‘filtering’ fault… my brain just doesn’t throw stuff out very well. But short term memory is really poor… it all seems to go straight to long term.

]]> By: Alice http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17377 Alice Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:56:48 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-17377 Donna, I have recently been diagnosed with a bunch of things. My newest diagnosies are the following: Mixed Personality disorder, Bordnerline personality disorder, and PTSD. the doctor who assessed me also said that i had traits of DID - but he never really explained which ones... i'm assuming it's because i have about 3 other personalities that do come out from time to time to help me cope when i am in extreme stress. I also have asperger's syndrome. I find it very confusing because sometimes i am aware of when the others are out, and sometimes i'm not. I have been losing a lot of time recently, and when i remember, i'm not really remebering, it's as though someone is telling me (from the inside) I am not really sure what to do about any of this - most people don't believe me... i also find that the autism plays an interesting role in the PTSD and trying to keep myself in the here and now. Alice Donna,
I have recently been diagnosed with a bunch of things. My newest diagnosies are the following: Mixed Personality disorder, Bordnerline personality disorder, and PTSD. the doctor who assessed me also said that i had traits of DID - but he never really explained which ones… i’m assuming it’s because i have about 3 other personalities that do come out from time to time to help me cope when i am in extreme stress. I also have asperger’s syndrome. I find it very confusing because sometimes i am aware of when the others are out, and sometimes i’m not. I have been losing a lot of time recently, and when i remember, i’m not really remebering, it’s as though someone is telling me (from the inside) I am not really sure what to do about any of this - most people don’t believe me… i also find that the autism plays an interesting role in the PTSD and trying to keep myself in the here and now.

Alice

]]> By: donna http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-158 donna Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:49:26 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-158 ooooh, an unintegrated cognition does many things with other departments 'off line'. People in shock do amazing things, far beyond what they can do in usual consciousness. People with bipolar do things in manic states they couldn't dream of in level or depressive ones. People with Exposure Anxiety have to, as a matter of survival and functioning, tune out awareness in order to get ability out as 'other'. Life is never one dimensional. However it works with you and your selves, may you collectively have a fuller life because of it. Sometimes freedom is the gaps we grab between the bars of a cage. :-) Donna *) ooooh, an unintegrated cognition does many things with other departments ‘off line’. People in shock do amazing things, far beyond what they can do in usual consciousness. People with bipolar do things in manic states they couldn’t dream of in level or depressive ones. People with Exposure Anxiety have to, as a matter of survival and functioning, tune out awareness in order to get ability out as ‘other’.

Life is never one dimensional.

However it works with you and your selves, may you collectively have a fuller life because of it. Sometimes freedom is the gaps we grab between the bars of a cage.

:-) Donna *)

]]> By: Athena Ivan http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-129 Athena Ivan Mon, 15 May 2006 05:20:02 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-129 did Willie and Carol let you do things without you realising it was YOU doing it? This is the topic of EA...........exposure anxiety. Or was the scenario different, concerning Willie and Carol? I command myself in the third person as Ivan, when I have to do things quickly or get motivated.........or when I'm afraid of something I mutter to myself Ivan it's okay..........or when I am sad...........case in point.......yesterday I had spent the afternoon and evening with friends........when the lady friend came into my apartment while her boyfriend waited in the car......I clung to her.........looked up at her.........cried and said..........don't leave Ivan.......... An aside. Ivan, it's 1:22 am, wake up time is 7:20...........go to bed!!! cheers ai did Willie and Carol let you do things without you realising it was YOU doing it? This is the topic of EA………..exposure anxiety. Or was the scenario different, concerning Willie and Carol?

I command myself in the third person as Ivan, when I have to do things quickly or get motivated………or when I’m afraid of something I mutter to myself Ivan it’s okay……….or when I am sad………..case in point…….yesterday I had spent the afternoon and evening with friends……..when the lady friend came into my apartment while her boyfriend waited in the car……I clung to her………looked up at her………cried and said……….don’t leave Ivan……….

An aside. Ivan, it’s 1:22 am, wake up time is 7:20………..go to bed!!!

cheers
ai

]]> By: donna http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-5 donna Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:02:18 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-5 Hi dear Bronwyn, you are right, I'm quite a social phobe but I choose to be public (ironic, I know). Fact is being an artist, writer, musician, is about being solitary :-) the downside is you have to be public in order to survive in it as one's 'work'. I can feel a blog coming on.... :-) Donna Williams *) Hi dear Bronwyn,

you are right, I’m quite a social phobe but I choose to be public (ironic, I know). Fact is being an artist, writer, musician, is about being solitary :-) the downside is you have to be public in order to survive in it as one’s ‘work’.

I can feel a blog coming on….

:-) Donna Williams *)

]]> By: Bronwyn G http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-4 Bronwyn G Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:30:57 +0000 http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2006/03/16/losing-time-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-the-real-time-travellers/#comment-4 That's pretty amazing, Donna. I like what you wrote about multiples and autism. And the picture is lovely too. Yep, time is so a mental construct! And so is the idea of one self (I think). Love your saying about the patchwork quilt. It's up there with the labels and jam jars I think. I may have got lots of people reading your blog. Have I started trouble? You chose to be a public person ... That’s pretty amazing, Donna.

I like what you wrote about multiples and autism.

And the picture is lovely too.

Yep, time is so a mental construct! And so is the idea of one self (I think).

Love your saying about the patchwork quilt. It’s up there with the labels and jam jars I think.

I may have got lots of people reading your blog. Have I started trouble? You chose to be a public person …

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