Steve: okay, well....consider this....there isnt a "you" per say....a single that is afflicted by alters? We dont have "alters". We all just happen to have to fight for time in the same body. So, if I got to sit here an accept responsibility for something an Other did (you got to prove it for one) ....

Alters are also created for coping skills one has never learned or feared learning. For every social skill we were deprived, an Other was created to handle that skill.

Did you know that the physical nature of dissociation that scientists are learning to discover is that the hippocampus of the brain, the part responsible for the laying down of memories or location of memory parts is abnormally undersized? To me, this says certain people are prone to dissociation more then others while some don't dissociate at all. It can't handle trauma like a normal one can. Now throw 18 years worth of trauma at it....then you unfortunately have us. We happen to dissociate at an itch. We are poly-fragmented which means we've over hundreds of hundreds of Others, so just picking to be a whole person from our perspective is really kind of a hard thing to do...like those others like us. Thank God we don't have it worse because there are plenty of others a lot of far worse than us....bless them.