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Originally Posted by Amyjay
Hi and welcome to the forums. Can I ask why you want your alters to talk to your friends?
I don't have that issue of wanting alters to talk to friends (not surprising, I don't have friends!) but my alters come out and talk to whomever they want to when they need to anyway. Those are the alters who take care of world type interactions anyway. But most of alters are trauma alters and only deal with that kind of stuff, and I wouldn't want them coming out with friends at all.
Maybe check with your alters though. I would guess that any alters that had any interest in interacting with others would have gone ahead and done that all your life anyway!
Just editing to add that it really might not be a good idea for littles and trauma alters to come out with friends. Friends aren't trained in trauma and dissociation issues and could cause a lot more harm than good. DID is painful stuff. Be careful.
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well, i know for a fact that some of my alters at least would like to talk to my friends but have been too anxious thinking about what my friends might think of them...
but i want my friends to talk to them to get to know the other parts of me, and not just... this me.
i know my alters aren't necessarily "me", but they're not... "not me" either?
and they used to talk to people without worrying, but that's before we knew we were a system... it's like. now that we
know suddenly everything is more difficult to do.
i will be careful, but this is still something a lot of us want to do. it's just hard when all we can think about is how awkward it can be to meet "new" people. some of them technically have spoken with them before, but not that my friends know that...
these things are just really complicated and i wish it wasn't so hard.