Experience Project — Personal Stories about any Life Experience. Inside my head. What happened in my birth year? WritersCafe.org | The Online Writing Community. Donna Williams’ Blog » Blog Archive » Autism and DID/MPD – can someone autistic be multiple? December27 To answer this we really need to ask several questions. 1) do all children, including autistic children, dissociate? ANSWERyes. In fact autistic children tend to dissociate more easily, more continuously and do so far beyond the age of 5 where most non autistic children adapt to no longer commonly dissociate. 2) do all children when subjected to overwhelming circumstances dissociate?
ANSWER yes. 3) are those with significant information processing, emotional dysregulation and communication disorders more likely to find their circumstances continually overwhelming and, hence, find dissociation comforting. 4) are those with significant developmental disabilities known to be more commonly subject to family breakdown and abuse than children without developmental disabilities? ANSWER yes 5) are those with significant developmental disabilities known to be more commonly subject to additional mental health disorders than children without developmental disabilities? ANSWER no. ANSWER no.