Sunshine and Shadows [Me]

Back to reading 'Sunshine and Shadows' today.

As a person with DID, I recognize that I am responsible for everything that any of my alters do. My mind created these alters as a way of survive horrifying conditions when I was a child. They are all me and I accept responsibility for them. This is something I've said many times. Each part of my system is responsible to and for each other part of my system. Sometimes this causes problems internally, but they are my problems, our problems, and no one else's.

--- my computer crashed at this point, but luckily I was able to save it - yay! ---

She also got the question about how alters get their names, and I commented with a summary of how we got named. She's only purposely named one of her alters, like I did for Sam. The others just had the names they have, like most of the rest of us.

I'm getting to know a couple of her readers, too, that are multiple, through the comments they make on her posts. This is interesting, though it is stirring up some interesting emotions inside. I'm constantly amazed at the kind of history a person can have and still be a functional adult, even when it takes splitting apart to survive. And I'm grateful that my trauma that split me was so... tepid, compared to some of the things other multiples have gone through.