first may I say congratulations on going back to school. I read your past posts to get an idea of which member you were (names just dont stick in this head of mine) and I saw you had posted that you are 61 yrs old. that is so cool that you are in a class where you need to do a psych paper like this.

now the assignment... yes thats the dangers of trying to diagnose yourself... you end up seeing yourself in just about everything and not know what to weed out and leave in, and where you fit in. especially when you have such in your words from past posts "distinct" parts of you that take over and "shake" up things when you are trying to figure things out about your self.

it really doesnt matter how we here on psych central would describe you and your personality (ies). in fact each of us would probably describe you differently depending upon which part of you we have encountered and which one of your posts we are reading.

my suggestion ...talk with your treatment providers. They are the ones that know you the aware self and you the other parts of you, they can help you stay grounded in whats real and whats imagining yourself in all these different diagnostics for types of personalities, or which part of you is any number of types of personalities, based on what you are reading and using as references for this paper. they can show you how to include all parts of you while at the same time staying focused on the main fully focused and aware self..which is probably what this paper is looking for since not everyone in the class is dissociative disordered.

as for how to present oneself as one way in public socially acceptable ways... that comes from things like what culture you live in, what your parents taught you about manners and whats acceptable to do when and where, who you are with, where you are and all that kinds of stuff..

example in one of your posts you talked about bordering on seducing your therapist.. you knew what things were acceptable and what things were not and you did things like wrote him therapy based letters, not love letters, you gave him things that were within the scope of your therapy sessions and about you not the treatment provider....bottom line you knew he was your therapist so everything had to be therapy related you didnt for example go to a movie with him, have sex with him, make out with him because you knew those things were not acceptable.

thats how things are with socially acceptable behavior... the person looks at the situation/event/ takes in who they are with and what is acceptable in that situation and then acts accordingly.

when I am with my mother I am my mothers daughter, the situation/ event requires me to have respect for my mother, mind my manners, no swearing, no smoking, .

when I am with my wife I am a wife/friend and equal I have respect and love for my wife and my behavior adjusts to what ever we are doing and where we are..if we are in church we sing, we pray, we have thoughts and conversations about god, we dont tell our private boldest X rated talk we would be using in our intimate moments. in our private intimate moments we talk about our intimacy, love for each other,...

suggestion read your past posts, you will find many examples where you know what is acceptable behavior for your self and other members you have replied to.