Hey France, welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. My guest today are Nathan and Micah.

Micah is a 23 year old female who has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder or DID, where she has over 100 alters.

So what some people might think of as personality,

so this isn't the most accurate term

as we'll see in this conversation.

Nathan, her father is a former pastor and Michael was diagnosed in January of

2019 which began a remarkable journey of understanding and healing. You might ask like why are you even having this

conversation why talk about this so I want to give you three

reasons why I think this conversation is important or at least three reasons why I wanted

to have this conversation on The Elgin Ra.

Number one, I'm curious about lots of different things.

That's it.

Especially kinds of people and experiences

that I don't know much about.

There's something I hear about that,

that I'm like, man, I don't know about that area, that experience, that person, that topic, then I'm oftentimes very eager to learn about that. And DID is certainly one of those areas. So I'm bringing in almost nothing to this table and I learned so

much in this hour-long conversation. Number two I'm particularly curious

about minority experiences, people and stories and experiences that most people don't have.

I would consider myself very much a majority type person with majority type experiences and a majority culture.

And that's not, some people would say, and that's wrong, I don't think it's wrong at all.

It is what it is, just the facts facts and so I think for people like me

I think it's healthy and good and beautiful and necessary for people like me to be intentional about learning from minority experiences.

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