Can only tell you what it use to be like after dx for us. We didn't know each other..no coconsciousness. Like walking into a room full of strangers. Couldnt understand all the words, identify voices. Some louder, clearer than others, Some there but not heard or seen at all. Over time identified them. Learned names, jobs, voices, likes, dislikes, experiences, found relationships, developed relationship. Scary, especially the amnesia stuff, but that was our normal. We wish somebody had told us then how amazing DID is. It allowed us to live. Without it we would be dead or at best institutionalized.. Whether one believes that it is a gift from God or a function of an especially gifted brain, we are awesome. We found a way to survive & thrive in spite all the efforts made by our abusers to defeat us.