i am still curious how this works. to elaborate on what i said above (ran out of time to get into it more), i have (or at some point had as i don't know who is around still) two alters with a similar name, grace (unsure of age) and gracie (young) and then kate (20s) and katie (young). i do not know if kate and katie were the same or not, but i'm pretty sure grace and gracie were not as grace apparently is an angel or believes herself to be, and i do not currently remember anything about gracie except her name and estimate of her age. i also do not remember much about katie except i thought she was seven but might be ten or maybe just thinks she is 10.

the strange thing for me is when i looked at childhood pictures years ago and it jumping out at me who was who in two specific pictures when i really had very little insight into them...it was just like...there two of them were with a tiny bit of feeling that it was them which i guess was how i knew it was. it was weird putting that connection together..and that is off topic.

but since i no longer seem to have the communication i had years ago, it leaves me not knowing who is who.

i do know that when any of them were closer to the front or were more out (not sure how to word that as i tend to blend with them in a strange way), they would not identify themselves by name to anyone external and seemed to not know who they were at times if they were too far out (again, not sure how that works or why that would happen), so they would either just kind of respond to my name or not really at all...and it is very confusing for me, so i'll probably never figure out any of it.