I hit the "quick reply". This is something I wanted to state here in this thread, but not to one individual...

One thing I've learned over these MANY years online talking with DID'ers is this:

All DID is different. Yes, there are the basic causes, the basic ages for it to have began, the basic manifestations of the disorder, etc. However, after that I believe that DID is an individual experience (due to the individual's mind and "escapes" used); as individual as the body's DNA, including the systems and forms of healing. Even the term integration means different things to DID'ers and even to therapists.

Just because my experience, and even healing, looks different from anyone else's, doesn't mean it's not my experience, my truth, eventually showing me my individual need. My healing (so far) jumped up and grabbed me when least expected and not in the ways I expected; certainly different from what I'd read and heard...changing the meaning of healing for me. That's OK!!!

Let's all please remember that we're all brought together by a common thread. However, from there we've created our own individual, unique, and even beautiful, tapestries. We are extraordinary and amazing. Though we're each similar in that we've created these beautiful "tapestries" beginning with the thread doled out to us, they're totally different tapestries. My tapestry doesn't look like your tapestry and that's OK!

Let's hang on to the fact that we're all survivors no matter how we survived, that we survived differently and continue to survive differently in some ways. Let's remember that our healings are an individual process based on our pasts, our current needs, and our unique (to us) goals.

Respect to all.

KD