For what it's worth, and there will be those that ardently disagree, I see DD as a spectrum with amnesic DID at the far end. I think you can have DID without the amnesic component (call it DDNOS or OSDD if you want). I also think the amnesia takes a lot of forms; losing track of time, compressing or expanding time, missing appointments, remembering things but in a hazy or vague way, on and on. From the patient perspective, I feel like DID is about the experience of shifting states, having alters, how ever you define it, more than DSM criteria. I really think that the experience of alters is a spectrum as well, from several present at once (where is seems noisy and confused in your head) to one.

I guess my point is to not get trapped by some definition of what you have or don't have. Because what you experience is so much more important that putting a label on it.

And yes, what you have written in this thread does make sense.