That's very nice Amanda. This is not an attempt to analyze anything like your reply seems to suggest in some subtle but pointed fashion. It seems that you might have taken the spirit of the discussion topic all wrong. Here, let me go ahead and try to clear the air as to the true intent of this discussion topic so that no one else here gets offended and finds fault with it also.

Basically, it boils down to this....I'm nosy. I started the topic because I'm fascinated with the doings of other people's lives. I always love comparing notes and finding the similarities and noting the differences. I love reading about other people's lives as much as sharing mine. It's a learning process for me, and others I hope, and I also find it very interesting. You can probably accuse me of being a mental peeping Tom.

I also gave it a humorous title. We have got to have some humor where the subject of M.I. is concerned because it's so evil. Humor keeps us from being swallowed into the depressing darkness of MI, ruining our soul and lives in the process, turning us into prisoners of our own mental hell.

I do admit that the word "clue" can be taken as an attempt to analyze to theorize ones mental state, but that would be in the present when the idea would be an active concern and actively investigated with purpose and intent to figure ones self out. Truth be known, I used it in the context of being back in time to when "it" happened. Then it's a mystery, or so it would seem to the participant. Because of the main word "mystery" I chose to use its companion "clue" as the obvious candidate to be in the title. Its a clue during our earlier days of wondering ignorance, well, maybe only for the ones that can retain some memory. For you "True DID" people, maybe this concept wasn't that well thought of and planned out. Give me a break, I put it all together in 10 seconds and now had to take an hour to explain it.

At most we might get a "wow" or "no ****" reaction out of a reply post. Other people's experiences are gems. Since we all are confident in who, what and how we are, I securely assumed that we could just have a little fun with this and post stupidly interesting stuff for entertainment purposes, and I can also be wrong in thinking that, but oh what the hell.

We all know the clinical text book definition for DID for you Amanda quote it so well endlessly. We appreciate that because there might be an outside chance that we just might forget what it is, and let's not forget the newcomers also.

Well, after all that, I hope some misgivings were cleared up and that we're now all on the same page as I see it. But, after all that, the fun has been zapped out of it somewhat, and I'm now not so much into it anymore, but that can change. Don't worry, I'll come up with something else here soon, I usually do. That's my job.