with me there was no "clue's" that I was DID in my awareness, at least not until after I was diagnosed. once I was diagnosed it was like I was constantly evaluating everything thing I had said and did through out my life. my therapist and I would have many sessions where we would end up laughing about this because everything most people would look for... doing things i wouldnt remember doing, buying things i didnt remember buying, writings/artwork I would not recognize nor remember doing, forgetting where my house keys were, ...all these things are things that even normal people do/happen to normal people.

my therapist had to explain to me that if I wanted to find those things that pointed my mind to being DID, I had to look beyond normal, and of course I could not find the beyond the normal because everything that was happening with me all my life was my perception of normal, everything was my normal.

my therapist and i had quite the conversations about how do you look beyond what is your normal to what is your abnormal ...well because not remembering buying things was my normal, the abnormal of that is remembering buying something. since not remembering and not recognizing my own writing was my normal then recognizing/remembering writing something was my abnormal..

then my therapist explained to me that the only way for me to know and find those things that point to having DID is the diagnostic criteria. those are what got me diagnosed with DID. then she and I went through my test results, and she showed me what got me diagnosed with DID, it wasnt my writings, or buying things\forgetting things. it was having two or more alternate personalities of a special type that had their own jobs, purposes, reasons for being, that affected my life in all areas of life...social, academic, occupational.....

now I dont bother looking back trying to analyze my life trying to understand what in my life pointed to being DID.