this statement jumped out at me because this is what I thought too, that alters would not share repressed memories, just regular memories. when I told that to my therapist she told me the psychological definition of a repressed memory is any memory that a person can not remember due to trauma, stress, or mental disorder. in short everything the alters know and have in their memories that I do not know is called a repressed memory. over time through therapy and healing the person with DID does regain their memories back.. then she used an example of a recent memory I gained back from an alter....

the memory of when I was lost in a mine shaft was dissociated and became part of Rainy's memory. for me since I did not have that memory in psychological terms that memory was a repressed memory.One day my wife and I were traveling and we got lost, as we went through a tunnel I felt afraid and began to cry. once on the other side my wife pulled over and held me and tried to calm Rainy down thinking I had switched into rainy since that was the alter who was afraid of the dark and getting lost. I let my wife know it was me, that I was all in the present but could now remember being lost like rainy, i could now remember the traumatic event of being lost in the mine shafts and all the feelings associated with it. the next time Rainy took over my therapist thanked rainy for sharing her memories with me and encouraged her to continue to do so.

my point is that alters share repressed memories all the time, anytime the person with DID doesnt remember something that the alters know or the alters have done or is contained with in the alters, then the person with DID remembers that its called the alters sharing repressed memories. another term for repressed memories here where I live is called dissociated memory, and dissociative amnesia.