Pavilion is a proactive educational network providing news, information services and resources for and about multiple personality.

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We are not a support site. We are a site to accomplish positive action. We are here to change the public's perception of multiple personality; Sybil and United States of Tara are nothing like reality.

We use certain words to describe elements and experiences of multiple personality (multiplicity) in order for members to be able to better understand different viewpoints. If you have words that you feel are more descriptive of these elements, please let us know.

We seek not to deny anyone their experience but to distill the experience into its essentials. We are looking for descriptive yet inclusive language. If you are uncertain if you are a median or a multiple, you do not have to be completely concrete about what you are or feel you are. It does not matter how 'multiple' or how 'median' or 'singlet' you feel you are -- what matters is that you are willing to respect all types of persons/groups.

Whatever you feel you are is up to your definition of yourself/ves, which may vary over time, and it is not up to us to force a specific label to use. However, we do retain categories so people can better try to understand each other as related equals, and use these terms for ease of reference.

This includes people who feel they are in between -- for instance, singlet/median or median/plural -- as long as they are willing to recognize commonality with others and personal responsibility for their own actions.

In both diagrams the experiences described are fluid, not static -- you might move between various states at different times of your life -- for instance, people who feel they are both median and multiple, or median and singlet, etc.