Jess said 9 years, 5 months ago:

Sort of. He’s really tall and has red eyes. But seeing him was like seeing a silhouette of a person in the dark

Jess said 9 years, 5 months ago:

Cole used to call him David. I never really called him anything besides monster. He never was like “hey my name is ___” so yeah.

Jess said 9 years, 4 months ago:

I used to slip up a lot. I did it once in a job interview and I had to play it off that I meant something else >.< I still do it sometimes but I try to be more careful. Unless Im talking to my boyfriend or at therapy then the "we" instead of "I" thing happens more and is fine.

Jess said 9 years, 3 months ago:

Nice to meet you ^_^

Jess said 9 years, 2 months ago:

That is untrue. Alters can have talents that a host doesnt have and a host can have talents that an alter does not have. Of course none of them “suddenly” get the ability. It is learned. But for a person with DID, since their brain is basically fragmented into different sections, they may not necessarily have (or remember) the talent. For example, I can drive but soe of my alters can’t. Or some of my alters have a higher body temperature than mine. Yes, an alter can speak a language the host cant. Yes, an alter can sometimes do things the host cant. Another example, one of the other people with DID that sees the same psych as me has an alter that is a chef yet she only has basic cooking skills.

Kwonza said 9 years, 2 months ago:

Neurology and modern psychology both disagree with the above posts.
I’m not trying to be rude, but to avoid spreading misconceptions about a disorder.

@Jess
You’re agreeing with me though. It isn’t something that will simultaneously show up. Of course if an alter learns a skill, he or she will learn that skill. That isn’t what I’m saying at all.
My point is that there are people that believe that when an alter forms, it can immediately have talents that the host does not have, which is untrue.
Basically, I am not saying that because a host doesn’t speak Spanish, that one of her alters can’t spend time studying and eventually acquiring a grasp at the Spanish language. What I’m saying is a host that has never been exposed to the Spanish language will not have an alter that develops speaking fluent Spanish.
I think we’re on the same page?
Also, with cooking it’s a little different. For example, my dad never has gone to culinary school but is an incredible chef and his father owned a very successful bakery back in my country (he also never went to culinary school).
Neither were taught how to cook, they just did it.
So having an alter that can guess measurements or has a strong perception of taste, it wouldn’t be surprising that he or she would be able to cook well. I think we’re in agreement with this, but I’m not sure.

@Cole
Bullshit articles? I don’t believe you bothered asking for my sources, but essentially modern psychology and neurology is what tells me this is true. If you’d like sources, I can gladly give them to you.
I’m not trying to be insensitive, just informative.
I’d like to see your resources for this so-called randomly acquired language because that is simply not how the brain works.
Again, it would be possible if say the host had taken maybe four years of Spanish, but forgot it, and then one of the alters could speak everything that he or she had learned in Spanish. That’s possible.
Never being exposed to Greek and then suddenly speaking Greek? That is impossible.
This goes for anyone, not just people with DID.
So by all means, link me to all of your sources.

As I’ve said above, cooking is different. Being successful in cooking is rather easy. Being great at cooking is easy.
Essentially, anyone that has knowledge is basic chemistry can apply it to cook well. This same thing applies to someone that is good at guessing things on sight, someone that is good at following directions, or someone with a strong taste palette. With no background in cooking, if someone has one of those skills then he or she can cook very well.

With your second to last paragraph, I completely worded that wrong. I’m sorry, I haven’t slept in seventy two hours. So if I sound short, rude, or choppy, it is completely unintentional.
I understand that’s what DID is, but that wasn’t at all what I was trying to say. At this point, I can’t even remember where I was trying to go with that, so just ignore it. I don’t know what I meant.
And also, let me clarify what I mean by skills, because that is a broad term. Basically, I mean that an alter can’t speak a language the host has never been exposed to, can’t read if the host is illiterate, and things like that.
I’m fully aware that there are PLENTY of simple skills that an alter can have that the host can’t. For example, I know an alter can excel in chemistry or math even if the host can’t understand it at all. Or that an alter can acquire a talent at a sport that the host could never master. Things like this.
Again, lacking seventy two hours of sleep here. When I stated skills it sounded as though I was saying there is no way an alter can have ANY skill the host doesn’t, but that isn’t what I meant at all.

And finally, again, by saying this I’m not undermining DID. I’m just bringing to light the impossible and the possible.
Two of my close friends have DID (I actually met one through the other) and are also aware about the impossible and possible in psychology. I know how hard it is to live with and am in no way trying to say it isn’t. I don’t know how anyone could interpret what I’m saying in that way, but people are sensitive and defensive (I know I can get that way too), so I just wanted to clarify that.

rinseandrep said 9 years, 2 months ago:

@bananaartist maybe you could let your friends deal with this thread, so if they want to say something about what in their experience is different, they can do it directly among peers, and you don’t risk offending people by arguing the authenticity of their lives.

Jess said 9 years, 2 months ago:

You have not read the entire thread, have you? We don’t need links when we’ve experienced it ourselves. You simply aren’t understanding that fact.