At times to get back at other neighbors she would sneak into their back yards and do malicious acts while Shirley was there. However, Shirley’s mother had a strange laugh, which caught others off guard. Her parents Walter Mason and Martha Alice Hageman raised Shirley in Dodge center where they were well liked by others. Shirley Ardell Mason was born on January 25, 1923, in Dodge Center, Minnesota. Due to Shirley’s trauma as a child, she was diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder also called dissociative personality disorder, which consisted of 16 distinctive personalities in 1973 diagnosed by her therapist Dr. The movie depicted what Shirley had gone through a child, which included physical, emotional, and severe sexual abuse of the hands of her mother who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. There was a movie based on Shirley Ardell Mason Life called “Sybil” which came out in 1976, her real name wasn’t used in the book or movie because she wanted to protect her identity. She later died on Feb 26, 1998, from breast cancer due to declining treatment. Shirley Ardell Mason also is known as (Sybil) was quietly living in Lexington Kentucky, and had run an art business out of her home in the 1970s.
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