No my T knew exactly what she was saying and I didn't misunderstand ner. She has been in the business of working with dissociatives and dissociative Identity Disorder for over 25 years and keeps up to date by going to training seminars and workshops given by Dr Colin Ross the well known psychiatrist that woorks with dissociatives and Dissociative Identity Disorder and when I found out that I have DID from the pstchiatrist he also explained the criteria that was the reason why came up a 10 on the dissociative identity disorder scale, a 50 on the G scale and other scales aand criteria for DID. I was afraid after getting the diagnosis that the alters would take over and I'd be gone forever and they told me that alters can only do what is already stored as them. and that one of the criteria is that they are distinct meaning samantha can't do things that jerry does and jerry cant do what samantha does and that they never will and they are just parts of me that I have shut off from my awareness because those memories that are the alters are what I experienced but was too traumatic to know about back when I separated that part of my memorys off. the psychiatrist that explained this all to me has been in the business of working with dissociatives for 45 years and its his specialty at a DID treatment center here where I get therapy. They know what they are talking about and I trust them completely not to send me the wrong way.