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Published: 2010-07-17 19:59:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1738; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 20
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This zine is for sale for $2! Comment here for details!I decided to try making a zine by hand about being transgendered and multiple. It's primarily for educational purposes; I've never seen a zine for people like me before, and I'm not the only one.
Thus, FTMPD.
First page: [link]
Previous page/s: [link]
Next page: [link]
Might need download to read. If you find my handwriting illegible, you can read the text-only version here: [link]
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This is very interesting to me. I've never met anyone, on or offline, who is MPD/DID or whatever you want to call it. I'm kind of glad you're the first... I don't want to say person because you're multiple people? *kind of confused* 
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You can call us a multiple system, and that'll work out fine.
The "dangerous to everyone" is a stigma often associated with people whose minds work differently, and with multiplicity, the stereotype is helped along immensely by pop lit and sensationalism around people like Billy Milligan and Sybil. By focusing on the people who are in horrible situations, it gives many people the impression that all of us are psychopathic killers or victims constantly on the verge of suicide.
But you're right, we're generally quite happy and at peace the way we are. The issue isn't within us; it's only in how others react to it.
Love never knows any boundaries.
--Miranda (who didn't make this zine but responded regardless)
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Cool
I find that's the thing with most fringe-type-people. If society at large doesn't understand you, the type of thing you are gets sensationalized and blown out of proportion. And like you say, there's nothing really wrong with you, just in the way society at large reacts to you.
Um... I do have one question, though, if you wouldn't mind. Do all of you communicate clearly with one another? Like, are you always aware of your multiples and what you are collectively doing?
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That question is totally fine.
We're fortunate in that our co-consciousness is quite good. We are generally always aware of each other, and if someone is AWOL, it's usually pretty easy to get a hold of them. If we can't, they will usually return shortly and we can quickly fill them in on whatever they missed.
--Miranda
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Ah, that's pretty cool. Thanks
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I'm sorry you felt that way about being called a real person... it's sad but true that most psychologists would say that. It's always bothered me the someone else thinks they have the right to tell you if you exist or not, how fucked up is that!?
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It is. What impresses me is that this is somehow supposed to make me MORE mentally healthy, not less.
Last I checked, dehumanizing someone helped nothing.
--Rogan
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I think its because DID/MPD is still seen as controversial and not a disorder or maybe it is or who knows! The mentallity around it reminds me of when homosexuality was in the DSM before >_> good times (9_9) not.
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Yeah. Unfortunately, one of the changes being considered in the new DSM is to make it so that you don't even have to be inconvenienced/unhappy about your multiplicity for it to still be a disorder.
Arse.
--Rogan
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Yea... They are looking into changing the criteria but actually you have it backwards. Currently, there is no specifier that says the client has to have clinically significant distress to be diagnosed. In the new criteria they seeing if they should add that specifier in order to reduce misdiagnoses and cultural differences. They are also adding some other criteria to avoid the over-diagnosis of DID-NOS. Here's the link to DID in the official DSM-V draft [link]
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Ahhhh, you're right! I misread that to mean that the criteria of stress WASN'T added yet, and they were considering NOT having it. I misunderstood.
Thanks for catching me on that!
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No prob 
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I'm a bit confused, could you clear stuff up for me? >.<
So your a man who has DID and married another man who is your own alter?
Or another body's alter?
Sorry, I suck at understanding stuff sometimes! >.<''
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We're both alters. No host here. But we're in the same group, if that's what you mean. Only one corporeal body involved.
--Rogan
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Oh! okay! I gets it. >.< Thanks for explaining! Good luck to both of you! ^^
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No prob, thank you so much!
--Mac and Rogan
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Thanks. 
--Rogan
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I could read it fairly well, only got stuck momentarily on a few words
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Okay, that's good. I'll put up the text-only version anyway, for folks who have more trouble, but I'm glad the handwritten one works okay!
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