You have my research resources listed in my resources thread. the rest of my research involved face to face, phone contact, email and letter contact with professionals in the field done by my therapist at that time and I.

You can do that on your own just by opening phone books and calling professionals in the field of DID and treatment facilities in the field of DID and asking them questions.

My contact with the professionals in the field included their explaining their interpretation of the DSM IV TR and they all interpreted this last criteria the same just like they did on all the others.

Actually this criteria allows for many types of people to be DID because a person can be acting out any number of behaviors and memories. Its not saying for example ALL DID's climb under tables and suck their thumb for hours.

What it is saying is that when in an alter they act out the same information everytime -

Mary is Mary - today tomorrow and so on,
Katherine is katherine today tomorrow and so on.

And the therapists can recognize this by the fact that the same behaviors and the same information shows up EVERY time the person is that one alter.

To put names to this for example --

EVery time the person is "margo" its about anger,
Lots of memorys stored there - a memory of a DHS caseworker taking my child, memory of getting hit and my hitting back, and so on but the theme is anger to the point of throwing and hitting and swearing.

Every time the alter is for example Darlene its about numbers - accounting, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing - different memories stored as darlene but all of those memories include preforming math.

Mary - lots of memories how to cook, draw, clean organize but the theme connecting all those memories is caretaking of children. Making meals for those I had to care for, and so on

Many memorys stored as that specific alter at the same time the memorys within that specfic alter is connected, and distinct within themselfs -

They are limited by what their content themes are.

If a person is an angy alter they can't be made to smile and laugh,

If they are a happy alter they cannot be made to be angry or cry,

if they are a sad alter they cannot be made to laugh.

A person can have the memory of when a situation at age 5 made them cry and a situation at age 10 made them cry and something today at age 40 that made them cry all with in the same alter because that alters theme is "crying" and the behavior when a person is that alter is that the person crys

This criteria also accurately weeds out the want to be's because of the use of the words "Distinct" and "Relatively" because those factors are not portrayed in the mass media. It makes awful boring tv if a viewer is seeing the person behave the same way every time they switched into the same piece of memory.