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Originally Posted by finding_my_way
also, alters are not 'only' created by a trauma; they can be created for any number of reasons once you already have developed DID.
i don't know what age mine started developing, i'd say between 4/5 and 10 or so. the reason i say that is because they SAY that in children, they start becoming more self aware/world/reality aware and tend to lose the imagination aspect around age 10/11 or so...but i didn't appear to (also cuz of the dissociation), so i may have been developed others even after the age of 10 or so when other difficult things came up (not necessarily traumas, though i did have some occur in my teen and early 20s).
it takes a long time for me to get to know the others since my system seems to change..though that's also meaning some are more active or more quiet...so i don't have a lot of access/communication to learn about them more.
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thanks for letting us know what your location (canada) goes by and what your own system is like.
here in the USA children become self aware, aware of their world and reality as babies and toddlers. children are taught as babies this is your toes, this is my hand this is your hand, gonig to get your toes, wheres your fingers wheres my fingers and other self aware games toddlers and parents play. here children learn even before they can walk what mine and yours that over there, no, yes and many other self aware / world aware / whats real and whats pretend, dont lie, tell me the truth and other such things well before the age of 4-10. I know two year olds that can point to each state and name them, who the presidents are, and if you tell them something that isnt real the children will say no your fibbing, no your pretending. or just flat out no and laugh. my point here in the USA what treatment providers go by is different than your location (canada)
the same with what america goes by for alter creation. your location according to your post says alters are not created just through extreme trauma but here in the USA treatment providers go by documented mental health statistics / domographics that treatment providers submit to the health department and the government that state in each of their cases the alters are created in children before the age of 5 through their dissociation due to extreme trauma during their every early childhood before they have the skills to cope with those trauma's.
Im not saying a person cant have older alters. some people with DID have the kind of internal systems where their alters that were created in very early childhood have evolved\grown in order for the survival of that childs system. for example one of my alters that was created before I was 5 yrs old to handle intimacy \ sexual acts as a child had to continue to be able to handle teen age relationships and my adult relationships. in order to fulfill her sense of agency as a toddler, child, teen and adult, she had to continue to grow, age, evolve.
thats what I mean about the differences in newly created and one that has been there just havent had co consciousness with that alter until now situation. my location and culture goes by a different standard than yours does.