your first question from another post in this thread.... do you have to have alters to have DID.....

short answer yes. longer answer dissociative disorders now have new requirements since 2013 (you can read about this in the DSM 5, which is the diagnostic book that american treatment providers use along with special tests to decide whether someone has DID or not, or you can ask your treatment providers about what they go by for diagnosing whether you have DID or not or you can google the words Dissociative Identity Disorder criteria which will also give you many links to what american treatment providers now use for .........diagnosing..... this mental disorder)

answer to your question in this post I am replying to.... here in america having imaginary friends is different than having DID alters, having imaginary friends actually does this thing called ruling out having DID, this is because its normal for children to have imaginary friends, if they didnt rule it out then every child in the whole world would be called DID and not normal. children learn how to play pretend and have imaginary friends from their parents, friends and teachers. its not something that happens to them like abuse, its just normal play time. my children learned how to play pretend and have imaginary friends by watching sesame street and at preschool through playing dress up games.

my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers, they will explain more of the technical stuff of what a DID alter is vs having imaginary friends and why they have you diagnosed what ever ways they do.