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However, I will add that what is trauma to one child may not be trauma to another child. Also, what sounds relatively trivial now, may very well be highly traumatic to a small child...as we get older, we are more able to handle traumatic events. At least that is the "normal" pattern of development...once splitting has occured all bets are off! But that is another topic.

Sera

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This is so true.

I *did* suffer abuse, profound and prolonged. However, I believe my initial splitting started when I viewed something horrific and the fears associated with that same thing happening to me.

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It could be considered abusive to force a child to walk *alone at 6* by a horrific crime scene daily to go to school...knowing she feared the person was hiding in a certain spot...waiting for her.

I believe then that I became much more due to the abuse that was just beginning at the same time as well.

I guess what I'm saying is that if there were "fears" strong enough for the child you to NEED to go away, disappear, not experience (not be the one to walk to school every day), then it could happen in my thinking.

I can't know that, though, because as I said, abuse was starting full-fledged, in different forms, at the time and continued for many years after...creating more and solidifying what had begun. I can't say that full-fledged DID would've been formed by just that initial horrible fear, but I can't say that it wouldn't have either.

KD