Chapter 11 Appendix I

Appendix 1: More exaggerated multiple personalities in reality—William Milligan’s twenty-four personalities Acquitted: Probably not "famous" for that alone.What we care about is the reason why the jury ruled him not guilty-he is a person with multiple split personalities, and there are as many as twenty-four personalities residing in his body! Let's take a look at some of William's real personalities, identified by psychologists and hypnotists: , William Milligan: Ontological personality, 26-year-old American, autistic and with childhood shadow; Observing other personalities independently (Arthur even claimed to "can control most of the independent personalities to some extent");, Regan: 22-year-old Yugoslavian with color blindness, the opposite of Arthur, is a 201-pound, black A strong man with a mustache, responsible for protecting other personalities;, Aaron: 18-year-old American, who calls himself William's friend, and his hobby is playing the bongos.Aaron, the only right-handed and smoker among the 24 personalities, is responsible for the usual outside interactions.

, Tom: 16-year-old American electronics expert, Aaron's split personality, blonde hair, saxophone hobby. , Danny: A 14-year-old American teenager, he is generally considered to be a split of William's weak side: a thin coward with a fear of everything strange. , David: An 8-year-old American child, the recipient of all personality sufferings-this may be the first personality actively constructed by the subconscious of William, the subject personality.When the reaction of the external environment is not good for other personalities (according to William himself, when it is "not good for him"), David will be forced to switch out (even if he is not willing).

, Christine: 3 year old British girl.It is generally believed that she is a split of William's main personality's cognition of the beautiful things in real life. , Christopher: A 13-year-old British boy, Christine's brother, obsessed with playing the harmonica.Some psychoanalysts say that Christopher is an image of a "protector", but obviously, the ability of this "protector" is quite weak-more often, Christopher is just a "suggestion" of Arthur. By". , Adana: 19-year-old Argentinian girl who comes out when William meets chores, a poetic lesbian - with an unknown love interest, of course.

, Philips: A 20-year-old New York youth, an uneducated street gangster. , Kevin: A 20-year-old New York youth, the clone of Philips, who claims to have participated in the robbery with Philips. , Walter: A 22-year-old Australian with a withdrawn personality who likes to collect shotguns (though he doesn't actually own a real shotgun), and calls himself a "hunting expert." , Apple Fang: A 19-year-old New York girl, Kevin's younger sister, who has been secretly planning revenge on William's stepfather, is believed by other personalities to be insane. , Samuels: 18-year-old Jew, it is generally believed that the name comes from "Samuel" (friends who are familiar with Bible stories certainly know the origin of the name), according to Hebrew, "Samuel (Samuel)" The original meaning of the name is "Apostle of the Sun", and "Samuels (Samuels)", as the name suggests, means "Son of the Apostle".This personality is generally explained as a split from William's religious beliefs (Catholicism).

, Mark: 16-year-old American.This personality does nothing unless told to do so by the other personalities (which is probably the least assertive of them all). , Steve: A 21-year-old Texan with hypochondria, thinking that he is the real ontology personality. , Lei: a 20-year-old Finnish immigrant, a comedian by profession.Disliked by other personalities for playing tricks on people. , Jason: A 13-year-old boy suffering from mania. , Robert: A 17-year-old boy who loves fantasy. , Xiao En: a 4-year-old imbecile child with hearing loss and slow reaction. , Martin: A 19-year-old New York boy who thinks he's living too frugally.

, Timothy: 15-year-old florist handyman who claims his boss is gay. , Teacher: The same age as William, some psychologists believe that this personality is the "evolution" of William's ontological personality.However, the "teacher" claims to be "a fusion of all personalities", and he is responsible for coordinating the relationship between each personality and imparting knowledge about other personalities. Please don’t doubt that the above is not a profile of characters I made up at will—these “people” with different genders, different ages, different hobbies and even different places of birth live in the same body.

In the eyes of the psychologists who studied William's case, these personalities were so specific and distinct: Arthur spoke with a British accent, Jason liked to make a scene when he appeared, Christine was curious about everything and Sean Does he always have an expression on his face? Ironically, most of these "derived" personalities are acquainted with each other, but the main personality "William" didn't know that he was actually a split personality until he received psychotherapy. This may seem unbelievable to ordinary people, but it is not "ridiculous"-William's first split personality appeared as early as when he was four years old: Christine's favorite thing to do is "to take care of "Cathy" (Cathy is William's sister in reality), and at this time, William seemed to have entered a deep sleep, without any awareness of the outside world.

In other words, since childhood, William's perception of the whole world is different from others (he has always believed that inexplicable loss of consciousness is "normal")-he often discovers the gap between time and space in the blink of an eye. Unreasonable changes: The introverted William gradually thought that this phenomenon happened to everyone, but everyone didn't explain it. In this way, different personalities appeared one after another. In the end, the noumenal personality "William" was even replaced by "Arthur" and the "teacher" (they were worried that William, who gradually discovered the truth, would commit suicide and thus threaten the survival of other personalities), and were forced to enter a closed state for a long time.

This is a typical example of multiple personalities that exist in reality.From the perspective of incentives, William was abused and sexually abused by his stepfather when he was a child. The split personality may be his subconscious choice of escape.It's a pity that this kind of avoidance has gradually become a habit, and one personality after another is produced because of "needs", and finally devours the original personality. After reading Daniel Keyes' book "The Milligan Wars" ("The Milligan Wars", Billy is the William mentioned above), I was deeply moved by William's experience, and also Thus was born the writing

(That was around 1996—I watched Twenty-Four Billys afterward).Dr. Gelt Nagel, he just split the personality of "Evante Scissorhands" from the tragic experience of others-perhaps as an example of a split personality, he is not very "outstanding"; but To draw a literary sketch of this specific group of people through his experience, his weight is sufficient, and it can even be said to be "excessive". In addition to the two books mentioned above, bored friends can also read "Twenty-Four Personalities" by Cameron West (who is a doctor of psychology and currently lives in San Francisco with his family) (I remember it was the Chinese version of Shanghai Translation Publishing House).Although Cameron called this book a "biographical style", I personally feel that it is actually a derivative of "William".

Also, "The Fifth Sally" (also by Daniel), "A Beautiful Mind" (Sylvia Nassar) and "The Magic Castle" (Kay Lowe Smith) are both worth a look.