My T said similar to yours Sister, that there are differences between the degree of separation. She said everyone has ego states. I have barriers in between mine and have no memory of what goes on in those other states. (T said they are alternate states of the brain, which is where the word alter comes from).

T said she has many parts of herself but while I have such separation between mine, she does not. She said she is a mother and a therapist. When she goes to work, she is T. If her child calls in during the day and she talks to her, mom takes over. But T is still there, knows what's going on, etc. The same as at work, while she is T, she hasn't forgotten about her children, what she needs to do after work, etc.

It's still a little confusing to me, I guess because I don't have such integration and I have no knowledge when another part comes over. But there seems to be a separation based on the barriers and integration of parts.

I guess it depends on where on the dissociation line you are? Maybe like a timeline with a million dots along a 24 hour period. That's what I think of when I think of the dissociation line. Millions of dots on the scale of dissociation. A lot of different factors determine where we land on that dissociation scale.