that sounds confusing to me because it would be how i would regard myself...but the others are separate with names, ages, etc. though don't usually fully take over the body but can influence things intensely and can take over at times to talk and other variations. but at the same time, i don't know a lot about many of the others, so i don't know if that makes a difference either since it says they hide the existence of the others..but if the others hide from you, maybe it's not the same thing since you don't necessarily know things about them...

i always felt like i just 'held' them and they mixed with me or worked 'through' me, but i don't know how it was in childhood and if any took over then or not but have amnesia for events, traumatic and not, from those times (and in my adult life too).

i don't know how one would really figure this out though.