Not an easy post for me to make so it'll probably be short but here goes...

My T and I have been working very hard over the last year and we have uncovered two more alters - bringing the system total to four. After over a quarter of a century confident that there were only two of us, putting this out there is difficult. I take a great deal of pride in knowing myself (ourselves) and I have found this omission in self-knowledge embarrassing and shameful.

That said, can't save face and your butt at the same time and so I'm telling on myself here today. In the interests of being respectful and making some sort of amends to the two I have ignored for so long I'll share what I know.

There is a little two year old boy who, as near as I can tell, doesn't speak - at least to me. In many ways, he feels like he is Sonseearae's alter instead of mine. But he is real and important. I don't know what his job is but I do know that he lives in a near constant state of terror...although there have been the occasional guarded smile lately. I did get his name the other day on the way to my T's office this week via Sonseearae; it is Micah.

The other is a young, teenage girl. When we arrived at my T's office the door opened to let her last client out and then she always closes the door while she makes notes and closes her computer up for privacy reasons. It usually takes only about a minute before she re-opens the door and invites me in. It was in that minute that she let me know her name; it is Lori, with an 'i'. She was pretty adamant about the spelling. She shared her job with me two weeks ago without giving her name and, though I didn't anticipate it, it does make sense.

Anyway, not as short as I thought it would be. I want to thank you all for being a place I can share this.