I thought I was perfectly normal. that everyone lost track of the time and what they were doing and so on. I thought everyone had a la la land and fell asleep and woke up hours, days weeks, months and years later, not knowing what date it was or what class I was supposed to be walking to. and so on.

It was a rape crisis counselor who had recognized the symptoms and requested that I be tested. After I came up tested positive as Multiple Personality Disordered at a 10 on the dissociatiion scale I was told by the testing psychiatirist when given my test results and I flat out denied it that most if not all people with MPD (now called DID by the DSM IV TR) don't realize they have MPD or that anything is wrong with them until a therapy professional recognizes the symptoms and has the person tested because there are many mental and physical health problems that carry some of the same symptoms as MPD so those get ruled out and all that left is MPD (DID). I went through a whole battery of tests ruling out tumors, epilepsy, migraines, sleep depravation and so on along with having to do a comprehensive psycological evaluation with suplimental tests for DID. Once all the physical health problems were ruled out the only one left was the diagnosis of being DID in 1989. It wasn't until 2001 that I was forced out of denial of my having DID because my child had been put in foster care temporarily, and I had to learn about it and start taking care of my problems associated with it in order for my child to come home and I only had a year to do it in. Nothing like having your child taken out of the home and told you have one year to get your mental problems on track or parental rights will be revolked and the child will be put up for adoption to snap you out of denial of a diagnosis and kick your butt in gear to cram every ounce of learning, resourses and contacting professionals from one end of the nation to the other for help with setting up what is needed for taking care of things in one year when a typical DID person goes through about 10 years plus therapy time from diagnosis to integration and thats not counting the time the client is bouncing around with this possible diagnosis and that possible diagnosis before eventually being diagnosed as being DID.