This might not having anything to do with DD's, but I have lately become incredibly frustrated with this and I figured you guys would probably understand this more.

I hardly ever "misplace" anything, most of the time if I lose something I usually forgot where I put it last but what I find the most frustrating thing in the entire world is when I know exactly where I put something and when I put it there and when, and then it just vanishes off the face of the earth.

Nobody else claims to have seen said object, or to have put it somewhere else, so it's not lie people are just picking my things up and putting them in a different place, it's just gone. A few examples:

1. In school last year when I was in economics class we had this group project and I had some packets and they just kept on disappearing sometimes in the course of just a period. It got to the point where the leader just said he wasn't going to give me anymore to carry around. Never mind the fact that these packets were so big I would have noticed if they had slipped out of my huge stack of books and that my school was pretty nice so if I didn't someone else walking behind me would and give them back....

2. I had $20, I droped it, the second it hit the ground it had quite litrally vanished in front of my eyes. And yes it was real money and it's not like I was ahllucinating that I had money or something.

so yeah, it's just more frustrating then anything else, I've lost $20, important papers and a LOT of videogames this way (and it really doesn't help that those little cartridges for gameboys are so tiny) this is the order of likeliness in my head for explaination:

1. People are lying to me about not seeing or touching my stuff
2. Ghosts/aliens took it
3. Dissociation issues where I did something to them that was completely erased from my memory...or like....DID or something along those lines where I didn't do it but someone else in me did.
4. these things never existed to begin with

[Eriksplus]

My dear,
I belive this happns to everyone at one point or another.
it's not fun, is it?
Hoping things get better for you...
(Kay)Erik

[turquoisesea]

(((((kaika))))))

[Elysium]

Kaika....

I've experienced this before myself. I think it is either a DID thing, or there might be someone that is messing with you. (more likely a DID thing)

Aliens would not want our money!! It has no real value/worth.

and as far as things not existing to begin with..., but if others saw them with you, that would be good evidence that they were in fact real.

that's why it not existing to begin with is at the very bottom of the list, because of course they were real or everybody has shared psychosis. People messing with me is the most likely, though that would be out of character for them so I don't like the idea of not trusting someone when there is no real reason for me not to trust them other then assumption. And well, I don't really believe in ghosts (even though my dad does) and aliens live way to far away to ever know we exist... that was more or less to demonstrate my current belief that my probabilities of having DID or any other DD are in between "not really" and "never"

it probably does happen to everyone from time to time but it seems to me that it happens to me more often then to other people. Or at least that's the way I see it because I've never seen it happen to anybody else.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Kaika

This might not having anything to do with DD's, but I have lately become incredibly frustrated with this and I figured you guys would probably understand this more.

I hardly ever "misplace" anything, most of the time if I lose something I usually forgot where I put it last but what I find the most frustrating thing in the entire world is when I know exactly where I put something and when I put it there and when, and then it just vanishes off the face of the earth.

Nobody else claims to have seen said object, or to have put it somewhere else, so it's not lie people are just picking my things up and putting them in a different place, it's just gone. A few examples:

1. In school last year when I was in economics class we had this group project and I had some packets and they just kept on disappearing sometimes in the course of just a period. It got to the point where the leader just said he wasn't going to give me anymore to carry around. Never mind the fact that these packets were so big I would have noticed if they had slipped out of my huge stack of books and that my school was pretty nice so if I didn't someone else walking behind me would and give them back....

2. I had $20, I droped it, the second it hit the ground it had quite litrally vanished in front of my eyes. And yes it was real money and it's not like I was ahllucinating that I had money or something.

so yeah, it's just more frustrating then anything else, I've lost $20, important papers and a LOT of videogames this way (and it really doesn't help that those little cartridges for gameboys are so tiny) this is the order of likeliness in my head for explaination:

1. People are lying to me about not seeing or touching my stuff
2. Ghosts/aliens took it
3. Dissociation issues where I did something to them that was completely erased from my memory...or like....DID or something along those lines where I didn't do it but someone else in me did.
4. these things never existed to begin with

Things disappearing literally before my eyes the moment I put them down - the only time that has ever happened to me was when I was in LAX during spring break. I set my bag down while talking to the lady at the counter and I literaly saw out the corner of my eye one minute my bag was there by my foot and the next it was gone. wasnt dissociation some creep grabbed it. saw him running down the hall with it. they found it 15 minutes later totally emptied out onto a bathroom floor. guess the creep didnt want my undies and bra's, took a shirt a pair of jeans, my meds and my ham sandwhich. good thing my wallet was in my hand.

things being misplaced my family since I was very little called me butterfingers, blind as a bat, and the pink panther with her note pad because everything that I came in contact with got misplaced and I couldnt find it. the only way I could keep track of anything was by writing things down, even my teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade had to write my assignments in a notebook for me or I would forget to do them or forget to bring something for show and tell or the parties. Turned out this was part of my having DID from the day my first alter was created was the day I started misplacing things and I havent misplaced anything since I integrated my alters.

That's awful!

Well, I know it wasn't taken from me, it was at home and it was my money and they only two people there were my dad and brother and they were both a bit of a distance away and didn't move so...

[multipixie9]

Kaika, I just went through this and it was MY KEYS, A REMOTE AND MY READING GLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It drove me crazy for a whole MONTH. I searched all places it could be and all the ones it couldn't be. ARGHHHHH. I couldn't get any help inside and I even asked God to help me. Finally I turned the chair I sit in upside down (it was heavy) and all of them had slipped into a weird place in the chair that you can ONLY access through the back where they had put a velcro flap - OBVIOUSLY because they knew stuff would fall into the chair's Bermuda Triangle!!!!!!!!!!!! I had stuck my hands in the chair and searched all places.

Kaika, you are not going crazy and no one is playing mean games with you. It is just something that happens to people. Dissociation problems just can make things more extreme sometimes. Putting it out of my mind gave me some relief from stress and I felt better and was happy when I found them all - and at once. About the money. I just found 60 beautiful dollars in a wallet I hadn't used for a while - I lost it so long ago I couldn't remember when so it was Wahoo!!! when I got it back! Hang on K.

[wanttoheal]

I lose things ALL the time. It's kind of a standard joke here with my kids. But they often show up, a day later, a month later, a year, etc. Sometimes I find things in the weirdest places and sometimes it is pretty obvious that whatever I found was hidden specifically.

The most frustrating times for me are when I specifically say I need something for something and it disappears and then after the time I needed it is over, it reappears and is sitting in a very obvious place.

Also, my wardrobe changes. I will have only certain clothes that I can find or there will be a specific outfit I want to wear and it will disappear. They show up later though. I have no clue where they go during the time I am looking for them. T said one time that she liked the shirt I was wearing and asked if it was new. It was actually a shirt I had had for a while and it disappeared and reappeared. I guess it keeps my wardrobe fresh, lol.

T gave some young part of me a stuffed bear and I find that in different places all the time too, tucked away, hidden I guess. Sometimes it shows up in my car or my pocket or next to my pillow and sometimes I am going through a closet or something and there it will be.

[multipixie9]

It keeps life "exciting", but it drives us nuts too. Sigh.... I wish I liked scavenger hunts more.

[anderson]

yes we still have moments that this happens it becomes more notice able with us because we need to be safe and able to prove to our selves that we don't lose time. we stopped worroring about it when we chose to start trusting each other also when we started working with someone else that lost more then us and she / he was a single minded person.