Thank you guys.

As in one of the last installments of Hunger Games, Mockingjay said about her friend Peta, "He's still playing the game." When trauma is continuous, or when threats of trauma remain, the alters remain for protection. News, neighborhood violence, discrimination, and toxic environments from unrehabilitated/untreated persons ... and more ... are all threats to one's life in one way or another. Although others without dissociation may have the tools for resiliency and courage, our way remains automatically inclined toward survival, DID style. So yes, I still identify as a protective multiple. I am glad other people found integration and the courage within as one single identity. I am trying, but I am accepting of who I am now in the process of healing.