What is multiplicity and how does it happen?
Multiplicity is when two or more people share the same body.
It can happen because of trauma at a young age, which is called Dissociative Identity Dissorder (DID/OSDD-1). This is a dissociative disorder where trauma causes a young person to fail to create a singular ‘self’. That’s what people usually think of when they hear about multiples, and its the socially acknowledged form of multiplicity.
It can happen for no reason in particular, it just ‘happens’, and that’s called natural or ‘endogenic’ multiplicity. Someone just has developed multiple selves, and lives like that. This form of multiplicity is not medically/socially acknowledged.
It can happen supernaturally, because spirits from somewhere else enter a person’s body and act through it. These are called walk-ins, or soulbonds, or gateway systems, etc. This form of multiplicity is not medically acknowledged, but could be considered a form of channeling or possession.
*I am not an expert on multiplicity, even though I experience it. I have not been an active member of the multiple community since 2008/9. I am a ‘natural’ multiple and a soulbonder, and I can not speak for those with DID. If someone else with more detailed information wants to speak up, please do so.
