How true!

Fmw- ".... i have had others doubt me as well saying that everyone has other parts to them, ego states, etc. and while i agree with that, not everyone experiences them as separate with different names, ages, genders"

Us too! I've heard the same, just like "everyone has mood changes" when it comes to bipolar- nobody gets it nor do I expect them too, but yet to still be judged out of their ignorance. Whatever.

A broken arm is a broken arm, even before seeing a doctor....but it takes a doctor to initiate quality treatment, so see a knowledgable doctor.

We knew that we were always different- and was told so a multiple number of times by other people in sayings like "people like you..." Or "you are different..."... Or you get "the look" or the stare...

It sounds like you are having a tough go at it now. I'm sorry...people suck.

I haven't been officially branded, but I've spent a lifetime with self-imposed system wide blinders on in active self-denial, which means I knew 32 years ago. Since it was such a new thing then, it was easy to ignore and to go on in our daily business like we always had up to that point- we had teen issues to deal with that were more of a problem then this. Now that I look back, if I didn't have this, I wouldn't be having the teen problems that I was having. DOH!

The moment someone said the words (my spouse did because she just started watching 'United States of Tara' on Netflix in her room) "multiple personality"...a bunch of others in our system jumped out stating "That's what we have!" emphatically in an alcohol induced fervor. It was like a coiled spring finally sprung after all these years, let the crazee erupt! Lol.

That was a year ago. Our life now makes sense, the why we did what we did when we did what we did is clear. Now we wish that that has never happened, but the elephant is hard to ignore. Ignorance was bliss.

Multiples go undiagnosed all the time, but the really affected ones stick out, I guess.