Switching happening based on who's job, purpose reason for being it is to handle that situation - and pretending to be another alter is not mutually exclusive. Sonseearae will take control to handle/take care of situations that I can't - but it is not always prudent to make the switch obvious to others. Since she talks differently than I do, uses different word choices, has different mannerisms, etc., it is obvious to anyone paying even the slightest attention that we have switched - unless she takes steps to disguise her arrival.

I may or may not be aware that a switch has occurred. Sometimes I can see what's going on as an observer with varying degrees of distance while other times I have complete dissociative amnesia of the time period where she took over. That she successfully convinced others that she was me does not make my experience pretending.

Thanks, very generous.

We'll go pretend elsewhere.