Yes on the future planning it is difficult, but we do have small goals minus an ultimate one that we zig-zag to today, like getting kid to be a grown up, grow the business, enjoy the fruits of our labor. Everyone of us has dreams, and I think we work well together to make them happen.

Of course, prior to co-operation, we had no choice but to live in the moment with the wide variety of opposing opinions and loss of control to successfully head in any one direction. I thus was a drifter. Other DID'ers can have a leader alter that guides the system in a certain direction, towards a system oriented goal or cause. That's so not us. We're pulled every which way and up.

I don't think time has anything to do with my difficulties because time is linear, just a constant measure from point A to point B, regardless of our perception- we just helplessly watch it fly by. I look at it as a measure of system wide success.

I don't look at it as time, but missing memories which puts a screw in it all for me. Learning has always been difficult, especially when more then one part attends the same class. If there wasn't memory issues, I'd be a genius, armed with multiple minds looking at things from every angle. Actually, I'm a good troubleshooter, only because of collaboration, but I also recognize the differences in voices where I used to think it was just mine. Only reason we made it through school as an honor student is because we had to, guided by the governmental forces of man. But once I graduated high school, I was lost. Left to make our own minds up, we floundered because of our overwhelming complexity.

There are plenty of DID'ers that are successfully working in government and high level positions. Quite a few DID'ers don't know that they have this condition are very successful at what they do as a collective. My pdoc says smart people don't know they have this condition- which tells me that they are co-con, have a dominant alter, awares of each other's thinking, and it all registers as a single mind through ignorant bliss.

Everyone is going to have some level of success. I'm self employed with a home remodel, repair business, but this was the way this ball bounced.