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Different Personas

Damious

Hi,
I have a question about multiple personas. Do you think this could be related to ASD or ADHD? Is it something anyone else here does?


I’ve got a diagnosis of both ASD and ADHD and for as long as I can remember I’ve created personas for myself. And then I act out as these personas, say when I’m shopping, or when I’m having to go out of my comfort zone for whatever reason. I don’t think it’s that dissociative identity disorder. . . I’ve looked up the symptoms and I don’t suffer memory loss or anything like that. I’m aware I create these personas and know exactly what I’m doing. It feels more like when I was a child pretending to be someone else as a game. When I do this now I’m aware of it, aware of my personas, I just imagine I’m this different person. I guess it makes me feel better, less anxious when I’m out of my comfort zone.


So maybe it’s a comfort thing? I have suffered mentally previously after losing a loved one but I never had issues
with personalities or anything like this.
I was thinking about it today and put it more down to ASD or ADHD as I suffer with both. I’m curious if it’s something anyone else has experience of.

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  • Interesting. I have a friend who says I have 2 personas. He calls one by my first name and the other by my middle name. To my closest friends (all 3 of them) I'm completely myself. Otherwise there is the shopping me, the work me, the medical appt me, the meeting acquaintances me, the talking to strangers on the phone me. All very different and not purposefully done, I just slip into them. 

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  • Interesting. I have a friend who says I have 2 personas. He calls one by my first name and the other by my middle name. To my closest friends (all 3 of them) I'm completely myself. Otherwise there is the shopping me, the work me, the medical appt me, the meeting acquaintances me, the talking to strangers on the phone me. All very different and not purposefully done, I just slip into them. 

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