Similarities in Multiple Systems As a system, we are all separate people living in one body. But the thing is, we are all separate people, with all the trappings that entails. Like for instance, some folk in here share interests, and if you were speaking to us as an outsider(aka not part of the system ) we might appear to be similar or the same person, depending on how much information you had about us, and we've worried in the past that that took away from our individuality. But if you think about it, and I have since it freakin bothered me, it makes sense that we share things, like speech patterns or interests, regardless of how you conceptualize DID/MPD/Multiplicity/Whatever.

Like for instance, speech patterns. If you believe this whole situation is caused by more than one separate soul/mind/persons/whatever sharing a body(closer to my view our situation), then you have a whole crew of people that are psychicly linked, living together all the time, sharing experiences. Of freaking course they are going to share some speech patterns. It be weird as fuck if they didn't. And you better hope they share some interest, cus if they don't they will be a shit ton of arguing.

Now if you believe something closer to the clinical definition of DID(closer to 42's viewpoint), then it still makes sense. All of the alters are made of the same base parts, which all come from a common vat of pieces. Of course they'll share some speech patters and interests, as holdovers from a time when they we're operating as a whole, or through metal meshing between pieces after the break.

Regardless of which kind of view of DID/MPD/Multiplicity/Whatever, similarities freaking make sense. And similarities don't make us all the “same person”. I mean, like in my system, we can't even really agree on why we're a we (well, thats a hell of a sentence).

