This BDSM article answers the question what makes a 'true submissive' different to a 'submissive'? What makes 'the true submissive' so different? Are they a person who submits to everyone, all of the time? Are they so pliable that they have no independence or will of their own? Do they place their life/personal responsibility in the hands of another? What possesses someone to relinquish all control and consent to another person to the point where their own truth ceases to exist?