Thank you all for your answers. This is fantastic information for us!
Now we know better than to let someone, claiming to be well educated and behaving as though they are an authority on mental illness make us feel like we are not what we know good and well that we are.
We are a multiple or we would not think as we do both in parts or as a whole at times if that were not true.
We have been made to feel confused in the past by such a person.
They didn't apologize then after seeing the distress that they caused us and we doubt that they will apologize now. So, far they have not.