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Mae Marvelle is in the process of writing her first book, a memoir about her journey with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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The Mask: Hiding in Plain Sight

For a very long time, I’ve known that the way I think is unlike those around me; my brain simply works differently than others’. I've never understood why this is. Nonetheless, I have always been painfully aware of the fact. As a child, I learned very quickly that my way of thinking was not only different, it was the wrong way of thinking... I was the wrong way of being. With the basic survival instinct to blend in with the pack or be thrown out in the cold already built into my DNA,

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