[flockpride]

when someone you don't recognize greets you as if you are best buddies?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by flockpride

when someone you don't recognize greets you as if you are best buddies?

I smiled and said hi\greeted them back.

for one thing this was always happening to me since as far back as i can remember. its not like i suddenly sprouted alters today who had their own friends and knew people I didnt. its been happening since before I was 5 so it was my normal.

two I was raised in a culture where a child was always polite and used their manners and when one gets greeted one greats back. even non DID people have strangers walking up to them to converse. example this morning coming out of church there was a family I did not know waved from the street and said good morning. i and other church goers who were not mentally disordered waved back and said good morning and we all stood around talking like old friends. sometimes as i watch the children that are being raised today I wonder where that common curtesy and manners have gone. it seems gone are the days when children are taught manners and the common curtesy of greetings and good byes to those around them. or maybe its just that my native american culture is more attentive to recognizing and passing along greeting.

[Shaly78]

I think this goes hand and hand with the strangers in the mirror, but is a little different.....At times, when I'm in a switch where in my mind, I see my alter also, the next similar, and it doesn't even have to be similar person looks like my alter as a external person...

Ideally, when the time is right you want to make acquainted alters that might not have caught up yet with who they don't recognize. Flockpride, you might want to ask inside, who is this person greeting me maybe it is with an alter's memories, or maybe you just plain don't remember the person....I'm sure you know when you have to get DID involved, some stuff just is...

[flockpride]

Originally Posted by Shaly78

Flockpride, you might want to ask inside, who is this person greeting me maybe it is with an alter's memories, or maybe you just plain don't remember the person....I'm sure you know when you have to get DID involved, some stuff just is...

That's a great suggestion! Thanks.

I just deny it once but then say okay and accept it to not embarass the person blaming the error on ourself as being to busy, intoxicated, or just plain forgetful.

For us, waiting on inside makes us stand their very awkwardly so we just roll over it. Specifics like "what's your birthday?" Says the pharmacist is embarrassing enough.

Just got to fake it well.

I've been hugged and partied with people I don't know all night! Lol

I fake it as much as i can until i somehow hopefully figure out who they are