I think it's pretty standard to? But it doesn't mean were "supposed" to. I guess is your host was too young when the trauma occurred then obviously they can't be handling all the tough stuff?

But I was actually older when I split.

Maybe that's just what my therapist is used to working with. And that's what I saw a lot in the hospital. Like Jane would be Jane and then Jane would have six parts that she could switch into.

But for me, we cores all just go by Lydia and have learned to adapt to it, because that's the set of regulations society has put on us. Since we all share quite equal time and the cores know each others same memories. But we're still very different. One loves gardening, but another will kill every single plant while she's out. But we have lesser parts too that aren't cores, that we switch into on lesser occasions, we still have yet to find out who belongs to what core yet.

I was trying to look stuff up last night and they said that trauma can cause even parts to have dissociative identity disorder. So if I originally split into three. And those three split into 5 each. I now have 15.