To a certain extent, you can give netdancer credit for that; it more or less hadn't occurred to me to consider plurality before seeing (mostly Kennet's) comments about it. Further evidence that just being there and being out can make a difference, eh?

I've been using aspect-names for years without really thinking it through, mind. . . .

I'm finding it interesting the processing simplifications that come of thinking of myself of plural, actually; for one thing, it's helped one of my partners figure out how to make sense of me. But also I'm finding more nuance in each of my aspects, recognizing how things sort out internally where before there was sort of mental goo. I'm also suspecting that the aspect I "discovered" in this past week finds it easier to manifest strongly now that I'm aware that she's there. . . . (And this is a good thing. She's actually organized.)