I know there will be a bit of an outcry now but the diagnosing dissociative disorders come with a sucky manual. There are some solid diagnoses within DD, like DID and derealization. So you'd think it would be easy to put everyone with dissociation into a neat slot. Not so.

As many as 4 out of 10 are dissociative but do not fit any dissociative disorder. To me it feels like the diagnostic tool is quite fail because it misses a large group that will still be diagnosed dissociative but with no further specification.

I ask what those people "have"? Something we have not named? Could it be that we focused in so narrowly on the "classic" DID that we miss a whole bunch of people who are not a single unit but do not meet up to a DID diagnosis? They can be multiples without amnesia or consist of just fragments that are not the full personas needed for DID.

Something is whacked with the diagnostic tool.

Since they think you are DID, they have a reason. It might be they have seen parts that you have never met. That they have observed something happening with you, like switching.

The problem is that a lot of multiples don't at all live up to the myth of DID, they don't switch easily (a myth seems to be that most DID switch on a daily basis), some switch extremely rarely. Another myth is that every part is happy to be called out and will come out on command. Not so common at all.

Anyway, I wish you luck and hope you will find answers.