Angelina Souren (NL-US-UK):

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Be aware, though, that I’ve had a bunch of lock-picking hackers, animal torturers, postal-mail stealers and what not on my tail for like forever, apparently including some young woman who goes by the names “Eden Stroet” and “Mrs Skelli” and a bunch of equally misguided pals of hers who love writing exploits and what not, jus’ to eff people in the a, foah fun. These are the kind of people who write ransomware.

This nonsense started in 2008, though, with some quirky character with a great deal of IT knowledge (and who in a parallel universe could have been my 18-months-younger brother Paul – who became a miscarriage – and who according to Hampshire Police lives in Petersfield) as well as his similarly quirky hacker brother (who appears to live in Portsmouth, possibly in Winchester Road). It is my impression that they’re both neurodivergent in some way. That’s what eventually got me into bioethics-related topics.

They certainly at least sometimes seemed to behave more as family than my own relatives. Then again, of people acting anonymously you have no idea or certainty as to who they really are.

In 2023, I got told that I was dealing with an international network of people who were sexually abused as children. Does that mean that they think that I am some kind of Ghislaine Maxwell?

It’s not a system (of alters) in the DID sense, that I do know. Such a system is contained within one physical body. It does not approach you as a postie called Nathan in Portsmouth, as a guy looking for 500 euros in the bushes in Purmerend and as a hacker called Eden in Amsterdam, just to mention a few examples.

In Portsmouth, I did get a very strong hint at some point of there being a large DID system – chiaroscuro, an artwork of light and dark – and my earlier initial impression was that I was dealing with someone who had DID and I thought that I had seen an alter. (I now know that what I saw could also be an autistic person who has stopped masking.) I remember mentioning the possibility of DID in a phone conversation with a guy who I used to know in Florida. He mentally recoiled and advised me to keep my distance. I didn’t like that attitude, but I can’t say that it surprised me to hear that coming from him. The person I was talking about wasn’t anyone that I was socializing with in any way, however, so the point was moot anyway.

I know someone else who has that specific form of neurodiversity, but I’ve never seen her switch. She grew up within about a mile from me and I may have passed her house often when I was a teenager, but I did not know her then. She later was a colleague for over a year, in Amsterdam. She was very open about what shocking atrocities had happened to her that caused her DID, at least with me, but I think that she was relaxed about it with others too. She’s a highly intelligent woman with a good sense of humour, who got her Master’s late in life and among other things subsequently worked in a national security context but also water management and within that latter setting, I caught up with her some fifteen years later, which is about ten years ago now. None of this is a laughing matter (except perhaps to a genuine sadist or a hacker with the insight of a 12-year-old).

Unfortunately, everyone else in Portsmouth claimed never to have heard of any of these two, not even Steve Pitt (currently city council leader) of who I knew that he knew at least one of them from when he still ran a pub. So I still don’t know what’s what.

It was likely just a load of crock, though, that hint. A prank. Totally inappropriate BS that also goes with nutty hacker networks.

That said, I know that it can take for example twelve years before someone will reveal that he or she has DID to someone else who they got to know and grew close to. My situation does not have the feel of something like that. It does not resemble it.

As Google has now totally broken the once oh so wonderful internet anyway, it doesn’t really matter any longer, does it?

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