It’s like any neurodivergent situation where certain things just take work. There’s specialized apps that allow alters (personalities) to communicate and co-ordinate things like scheduling. From folks I have talked to there’s a lot of masking involved where folks with DID will collaborate across different alters to try to appear to be contiguous. A lot of the time from the outside they just seem kind of forgetful in a similar way that non-DID people can be. The source of DID is often severe trauma where the different personalities are created via partitions of memory so that no singular expression of self remembers everything all at once. This allows the whole to function as each peice has functionally a job to do. It’s at it’s core a coping mechanism taken to an extreme but it still functions as a coping mechanism.
Often times you really don’t know someone you’ve been around for years has it because they are scared to tell you. DID has a fair bit of stigma behind the condition.
It’s like any neurodivergent situation where certain things just take work. There’s specialized apps that allow alters (personalities) to communicate and co-ordinate things like scheduling. From folks I have talked to there’s a lot of masking involved where folks with DID will collaborate across different alters to try to appear to be contiguous. A lot of the time from the outside they just seem kind of forgetful in a similar way that non-DID people can be. The source of DID is often severe trauma where the different personalities are created via partitions of memory so that no singular expression of self remembers everything all at once. This allows the whole to function as each peice has functionally a job to do. It’s at it’s core a coping mechanism taken to an extreme but it still functions as a coping mechanism.
Often times you really don’t know someone you’ve been around for years has it because they are scared to tell you. DID has a fair bit of stigma behind the condition.