I am loving this post, I think sharing ideas on how to cope, heal and relate to others is a wonderful idea and it will help a lot of people. The reason, I believe, that it is so hard for us to at first admit to DID is because we don't know others who have dealt with this, we have not seen it in anything other than an occassional horror or thriller movie which to me is not the best description of DID. We all experience things in our own way, at our own time and with our own healing techniques, what works for one may not work for another, but it can show you the direction that you need to be going and it can shed a new light on things you once thought you knew but really had no idea.

My "progress" with DID, is extremely slow. I was diagnosed going on 10 years ago now and have yet to achieve "co consciousness" even. Only now have I started to become aware of the inner voices. And those are far and few between. It's threads like these though that have given me the, I guess you could call it courage, to not hide in denial over what is going on inside, and learn to understand it better.

I don't hold the memories from our past in my memory, I have only gotten a glimpse of some of the trauma that happened when I was younger. I don't know how many we are, I don't know when they will come out, and I don't know if I will ever be able to communicate with them or learn more than I do now and I'm OK with that.

It's a long road we all have to take to recovery and as much as I tried to force it and push myself into the "cured" field, I failed over and over again. Only once I stopped trying to be cured of this and started trying to listen to it, could I hear them. I am guessing it is much different than everyone else on here, since we are all different in many ways, but to me... I file my DID in the miracle folder of my heart and trust the others inside enough to stop trying to "cure" us. After all they are here to protect me, to protect us.

Fear was my biggest problem in dealing with DID and every time I read one of these posts it helps me with that, I don't live in fear of the next blackout. I don't worry over things that were said by someone else in here and I trust them to come out when they are ready. Speaking to so many "alters" and "cores" on this site makes it so much less frightening and more something to appreciate.
(***possible trigger sentence***)It's as if they stepped in front of a bullet for me every time throughout my childhood, now how could I be afraid or dislike that?

Thanks again for the thread, I really enjoyed reading and just wanted to share my thoughts on DID