I've wondered that too,

Others are coping skills, they emerged to cope with situations an other couldn't handle. This is why I'm poly-fragmented- I have hundreds of others...I lived under oppression for the first 18 years of life and hardly developed any social and life skills. I needed a handful of others just to go to the store and deal with life on the way. I was quite withdrawn, a recluse, and scared of human contact.

It would of been awesome if my ideal other would of emerged to run our life and all I had to do was sleep. But....the mind is broken up into bits and pieces (dissociated) and every other that presents is lacking to being the complete individual. A memory is made of parts and are stored in different parts of the brain like emotional memory, visual memory, hearing, touching, etc.... It's these parts of a memory that others emerge from...the learned coping skill.

This is why alters only know a part of a memory while an other part only knows another part of the same memory...or not at all. The brain is dissociated. An associated brain puts all these parts together to form a complete whole memory equipped with sight, sound, emotion, feeling, and whatever else it's like...I don't know. My memory is one dimensional, dreamlike, and contain flashbacks (parts of others incomplete memories) that they share.

All we others got a taste of the abuse that we others have others. :/

I remember others ready to stand ground but end up pulverized.

Yes, I have others that are in denial, too, but that's because they aren't co-conscious enough and can't feel it.