Semantics

[orek]

Hmmm, nats, I'm not sure "more fractured" goes with "less extreme." I'm not sure if there's a direct correlation either way, but more fracturing would not seem synonymous with less severity, IMO. But everyone is different, and it may have to do with age of onset and just circumstances and inner psyche's natural tendencies. Don't know. We also are very poly-fragmented, but we figure it's because of age of onset of abuse (infancy).

We also relate to the way you front to a degree. Our "upfronters" are grouped as 3 very similar insiders who blend to present a whole. There are others "on deck," I've realized, who step up and take over if/when the current blend of upfronters are overwhelmed or just too weary--though not too often or chaotically, thankfully. And insiders can blend temporarily with upfronters to help with certain tasks without being all the way out and pushing upfronters back (though they do that, too).

We also have hierarchies inside. Those seem innate and accepted. The main power struggles and resentments over credits and equality have been between upfronters and insiders. But that makes sense. Their very different jobs require more separation and denial. (Part of the upfronters' job has been, after all, to function as "normal" and be ignorant of the insiders and what they represent, i.e., what happened to us, right? A diametrically opposed process of evolution, in a way.)

Jeez, that felt long. This hereby endeth 2nd Opinions, Chapter 3, verse endless, for today's reading.