14 DAY TRIAL // Kimi Sands suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, claiming she has as many as fifteen different personalities that take over her at any given moment. The 23-year-old woman has accepted her condition and spends thousands of dollars on buying each of her personas a holiday gift.
People suffering from this type of disorder experience multiple personalities that shift at different times and take over their thoughts and behavior. Each persona is unique, with different ways of thinking and perceiving things. Excluding herself, Kimi can transform at any moment in one of her other 15 identities.
The young woman started developing her personas when she was three years old, but was diagnosed with Multiple Identity Disorder at the age of twenty, notes Daily Mail. Each identity can take over her for a few minutes or several days and can act completely different from one moment to another.
Her personalities range from toy-addicted kids, like 4-year-old Jack and his twin Safyer, 17-year-old exercise-addict Fiona, gender-less 14-year-old Fin, 15-year-old extreme party lover Theodore, 22-year-old Japanese chef Satou or punk-addict 23-year-old Ashy.
The woman has to buy each of her fifteen personalities gifts on Christmas, ending up with a huge list of spendings. The holidays can hit quite hard on someone's pocket, especially when you have 15 alter-egos waiting for presents, but it’s all worth it for Kimi because she makes everyone happy.
Ms. Sands' partner, Chris Lee, helps the woman do all of her Christmas shopping even if the kids can emerge to be overexcited over the toys bought. “Giving the presents to everyone is so much fun. The kids are ecstatic and merge from Kimi immediately. But then it's very difficult to make one personality leave so you can give the next gift to another one,” Chris told Daily Mail.
A big part of the 23-year-old's time is taken by her alters, she needs to buy all kinds of different clothes to satisfy both male and female personalities, and she also has to cater for everyone's special diets, as some of her alter egos are vegans or just picky .
All of her personalities can sometimes take advantage of her, as the boys tend to mostly hang around with girls, and so rumors that Kimi was gay appeared. Theodore, the party addict teenager uses Ms. Sands' identification card and goes out in bars leaving the woman with incredible hangovers.
Kimi and Chris' relationship seems to be working very well because of one important rule, no romantic intimacy between Mr Lee and his girlfriend's alters. Chris has grown to love his girlfriend's alters, getting along with the boys and taking the kids out to play.