My mommy is multiple. She says there's a lot of people in her head. She says it's like there's a house in her head, and a lot of people live in it, and that using her body is like going to work -- sometimes you like it and sometimes you hate it, but someone's gotta do it. So at least one person in her head has to take care of her body -- she calls that "taking Front", and that some people take Front more often than others, and some never take Front at all, so I might never meet everyone in her head.
Most people, like me, have only one person in their head, and she calls us "singletons". She doesn't like to call us "normal" because that makes it sound like she's wrong or sick instead of just different. After a while, I understood what she meant. Multiples through history have been seen as sick and needing different types of treatment, including people hurting them or giving them strong medicines, locking them up in prisons or hosptials because they are different. Mom says sometimes multiples do horrible things and needed to be locked up, but most of the bad things that multiples do is because people don't understand them or help them learn how to do things better.
I think it's like anyone else: There are people who do things wrong and make mistakes, and multiples aren't any different. Multiples just have more people in their head to mess things up, so sometimes they get in trouble more often than singletons.
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