Originally Posted by
Lisagirl41 
how do u all view your beast?
mine is like Chucky - an evil little whiny mis behaving child
or maybe I should call it Dementor like in Harry Potter
or maybe I should just call it Satan since I’m a Christian. It’s not easy to remember to separate.
Separating is easy to do but to catch it is sometimes tricky. Is it really real this AV? It’s just me right? I feel like a drink, I’m making too much of this...... blah blah all AV’s tricks.
Yes, he's like Chucky, but I have never separated my AV from myself. While I like the idea of framing him as something other than myself, and I think that may help a lot of people, I have always been aware that my AV is just me, and not even an ugly "other me." It's just me, but it's the part of me that lies to myself and is driven by self serving emotion that works against my own best interests.
It's like I'm aware that I can actually excel at being really stupid, and I have to pause every once in a while and think logically, or my gifted AV will take over and sabotage me.