for you this may be not true where you are but that doesn't mean it is not true elsewhere.

Example where I am the belief within the mental health community is that alters are created only through someone enduring extreme abuse before the age of 5. This is also what is taught in psych classes and internship in relation to Dissociative Identity Disorder here.

This doesn't make it wrong. it just shows we all come from different backgrounds, states, countries, continents, religions, races and all that jazz.

I think its pretty cool that we have so many different belief systems, represented here at psych central.