Have you ever received DMs from two different people, but you swear it's one person?

I swear this "new person" who started messaging me recently is actually just a new persona of someone who's been messaging me. I don't really understand it. I can tell by things like the writing style and some of the references to the same subjects (it's also telling that the old account has gone silent recently). I can tell they're trying to make it seem like they're a different person, but I'm seeing through it...

They're not posting photos of themselves or "catfishing" in the traditional sense (this is just a friend, not anything romantic or sexual). But it's just bizarre to me. Almost like he got bored of his old persona and wants to be someone new?

Anyone else experienced something like this?

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swirlie · 31-35, F

At an earlier time in my life, I became involved with forensic blueprinting for fraud investigation involving classical music and works of modern literature.

What I can pass on to you regarding the question in your post is that it is physically impossible for someone to have two or more alt accounts while presenting themselves as two or more DIFFERENT personalities as they transition from one account to the other.

We can change our username account and appear visually as someone else online, but we cannot change the personality we convey when we write something, no matter how creative we think we are. This is because our writing style is actually part of our DNA, it is not an acquired writing style we pick up along the way in life. Our writing style and personality we convey within our writing style is as permanent and as unique as our finger prints, which is why it's called "forensic blueprinting".

We can pretend to be a different personality for a maximum of about 6 sentences within a single paragraph, but beyond those 6 sentences, we automatically revert back to who our personality REALLY is and our writing style, hence our multiple personalities, then become identical to each other within each alt account that we have.

Tumbleweed · F

@swirlie Truth. I immediately figured it out.

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Tumbleweed
You immediately figured out "truth"?

Tumbleweed · F

@swirlie I'm saying truth as in what you said and that I immediately figured out that this male & "female" were the same person because of the writing style

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Tumbleweed
OH! Sorry!

I never knew you had a story to go along with that assertion of "truth"! 😂

Even a person who's a professional 'Actor' in a movie cannot change their own personality when they write something themselves, which is why Actors read scripts written by someone else if they want to play different parts for different movies.

However, if the person who wrote the script is a female, she will convey a female's personality in the script she writes for someone else, which is why a female script writer CANNOT write the male and female scripts to a movie, otherwise both personalities (male and female) will sound identical despite being acted out by a male and a female Actor.

Tumbleweed · F

@swirlie Exactly! This guy made a very poor attempt to fool me. He used the exact same words and manner of typing as he does on his main account. Duh.

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Tumbleweed
Dead giveaway!

Tumbleweed · F

@swirlie Yes!

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Tumbleweed
I mentored a fellow who writes fiction spy novels that are based on a setting in New York. He had already written a handful of spy novels which he invited me to read, which I did. My first critique to him was that I couldn't get past the first chapter of the first novel because I couldn't follow the narrative between the male and female characters in the book, simply because I couldn't tell who was speaking.

For example, in more simple novels it is written:

(Jane) Oh look who's coming in the driveway!

(Joe) Looks to me like it's my no-good brother in law...

(Jane) Why do you always talk like that about my brother?

At least you know as the reader, who is speaking and what each one feels about a certain 3rd person character who hasn't been introduced to the script yet.

However, the way my spy novel friend was writing, he would leave the name-title off the script which meant the reader didn't know if it was Jane or Joe who was speaking.

As a result, his novel became a useless effort because he refused to hand-over the female script-writing to a female, thinking that he could change his male personality enough to write both the female script and the male script, which nobody can do as I've eluded to!

What he ended up with was three novels that had multiple characters but which all sounded like the same person when they spoke, that person being a macho male, not a female.

Tumbleweed · F

@swirlie Oh my, what a mess!!

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Tumbleweed
I helped him to write a 4th spy novel, but his time I wrote the female script of my own making and he wrote the corresponding male script.

His novel was more successful than anything he'd ever written before, but he refused to include my name on the book's cover as a co-author. He wanted all the credit for himself and so only his own name appeared as Author.

I don't need the credit myself, but during the book signing event that was later held in New York, he told everyone in attendance while I was sitting there assisting him, that he wrote the novel himself, including all the female script.

He would never admit that he could never write both gendered scripts, but instead he lied about his ability to write both male and female personalities in his last novel.

Tumbleweed · F

@swirlie Well that's pretty inconsiderate

swirlie · 31-35, F

@Tumbleweed
That's who he is!