Im glad my post helped you but I also want to be clear here. my post wasnt about multiplayer online role playing games. (your word MMORPG's) or alters being influenced to play fantasy / pretending to cook and such.

the word influence means someone has convinced, bribed or other wise used power against another.

my post was not saying that maybe your sad alter was being influenced by another alter to be happy.

I was saying the happy alter may have integrated, merged together with another alter.

example take two glasses of water, one cold and one hot, now in a third larger glass mix the two together. the cold water is not bribing, convincing or other wise using power against the hot water and the hot water is not bribing, convincing or other wise using power against the cold water. they are just mixing together.

another example scramble an egg. the white mixes in with the yolk to form a new way of being.

alters are like that when they become one or are not performing their jobs any more. they mix together a sad alter is able to feel and be happy, with no one telling them to be happy or influence them to be happy.

thats what I was talking about two alters merging together to form one way of being.

as for your alters doing online roll playing games I think thats really great. my alters were not able to do that. none of my alters had any computer skills or knowledge im guessing because when they were created due to the extreme trauma I went through there were no computers where I was located. Heck my first cell phone was after I grew up and went to college. and none of my alters could work them either because they were so different than the phone we had on the reservation. working computers are not triggering for me so even if I still had alters I would not be dissociating while on the computer so i would not need their help anyway. but it is great that your alters can do things on the computer.

it means they have the ability to learn, alters that are not stuck in time so to speak heal and integrate faster than others that are stuck in time because they can understand that everyone is safe now. they can also learn the skills and such that you learn in therapy like grounding, staying present, handling triggers and other therapy stuff that happens with this kind of disorder.

my point you will have an easier and faster healing process then I did because you can all do things like communicate with each other and learn, evolve. my alters could not do those things. we didnt have a lot of co consciousness and such.