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Old Mar 27, 2010, 03:33 PM
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Ok my answers on the DIT sample question were very different from one alter to another!!

http://www.centerforthestudyofethica...%20Dilemma.htm

Has anyone here done the full test with a T with different alters to figure out how the different alters think?
Ive never heard of this test. I have never taken this test. But I have had the situation where alters answer questions differently than I would on tests all through my school years, and when people as me questions, It never bothered me because up until I entered therapy I considered each of my alters separate from my. they were not me so it stands to reason they would answer differently than me. my logic them was my best friend Anette and I had different views on life so why shouldn't my alters too. It was during therapy my therapist told me how diverse my alters were on their belief systems, their way of life, their mannerisms everything about them was just a bit different than my belief system, my way of life, my mannerisms everything. It took a long time for my alters and I to learn how to communicate, compromise and work together as a team and eventually become one person. Now that Im integrated those belief systems, ways of life, mannerisms, way of life everything is a part of me. At first I was scared at the idea that their ways of being was going to be my ways of being too but my therapist showed me that everybody has many different ways to be given the different circumstances in their life. She used herself as an example saying when she's at home being mother, she portrays one set of belief systems, way of life, mannerisms around her children, she wouldn't talk and behave and believe her husband should be treated, talked to, taken care of, the same way as her children. I laughed at that idea her saying to her husband "Do we share our toys or are we being selfish today?" in the voice and facial expressions she uses for her 3yr old daughter . She said everyone is a mix of all their beliefs, mannerisms and ways of life. DID people got their different ways of being, belief systems and mannerisms separated. After I integrated I was so surprised on how easy it was for me to automatically slip into the belief systems, ways of life and mannerisms that used to be separate and so different from me.

if you talk to your therapist they will help you understand why and how your alters have come to have their own belief systems so vastly different than yours.
Thanks for this!
WePow