Every person thinks from time to time: am I normal? Of course, not about one’s “likeness” to other people, but about the soundness of one’s mind and one’s own adequacy to reality. And naturally, everyone considers themselves normal—even if they say the opposite. Well, you can’t watch yourself… What if it’s me who, at night, commits robberies on the neighbor’s street, thinking that at that time I’m peacefully sleeping in my own bed?
Billy Milligan was the first person in US history whom the court found not guilty of the crimes he committed—on the grounds of, roughly speaking, insanity. If you believe Daniel Keyes, there were as many as twenty-four different personalities living in Billy’s body—men and women, and even children…