I too do not follow other peoples blog, not even before I was integrated. in short it would mess up my brain cause my alters problems and cause everyone to feel they need to be like those in the blogs, which would cause even more problems like denial and confusion because I was not like those in the blogs. my treatment provider and I discussed this a length and one thing about blogs is that theres no way to know what is true and isnt in someones blog. I know a few college students who have mental health / mental disorder blogs and they are not those mental disorders, instead they have researched it so much that they can just pass as believable mentally disordered but then a person who actually has the disorder comes along and reads those blogs and discovers hey wait a minute why doesnt that happen with me, or wow do they really think that happens with DID, they really need to get a life... so insttead of putting my own self and system through all that stuff I never read them anyway. I stick with resources given to me by my treatment providers, that way I know Im reading what fits me and what my own location goes by.

trailrunner stated
I would suppose that if I was driving a motor vehicle and blanked out - but kept driving, unharmed and switched/shifted back, not remembering how or why I got there - then it would only make sense that another "part" of me "stepped in" and did that. ?

the answer not necessarily. in my location this kind of dissociation falls under the term high way hypnosis and happens to every human being even those who do not have parts\ alters. the brain is an amazing thing if you develop a habit the brain will keep you doing that habit even when you are not fully aware of it like driving down a road and you space off, the brain keeps you driving...

one of the psych classes I was in actually tested this by having the students do the same activity every time they were doing an every day activity. I chose tapping my knee when watching the news. one day my then girlfriend/ now wife said to me when is this assignment going to end watching you tap your knee is annoying. I looked down and laughed there I was out of habit and not aware of what I was doing my brain had spaced off during the news and I had started tapping my knee even though the assignment was long over.

challenge to anyone who wants to try this.. pick an activity you do every day, something that is part of your routine and add to it another activity. give yourself a deadline of like a week. then keep track of how many times after your deadline how many times you become aware that you had gotten bored with your normal routine activity and started doing the added element with out being aware that you are doing it.

by the way the instructor for the college class got this from their childs 6th grade science assignment, they were teaching children how the normally works when one get bored and spaces off.