Can different alters have different skills?

✘ Myth: It’s impossible for alters to have different vision, health conditions, talents, and so on. “Those are physical. Even if the mind is different, the body stays the same.” Not impossible at all, and instead, extremely normal.

Do DID alters share knowledge?

Sometimes memories can be shared with other alters so that specific alter can understand things or cope. The most important thing though, is survival, so if an alter would become distraught over a memory, they usually don’t get to see that memory.

What are the characteristics of an alter?

Externally, alters can display different degrees of emotional expressiveness, behave in different ways, and have different skills and abilities related to sensory-motor functioning. They have different thoughts, perceptions, and memories relating to themselves and to the world around them.

Do alters have their own wants and needs?

Often, alters have their own wants, needs, desires, and opinions. They may have psychological disorders and physiological reactions that are unique to them or experience the body’s psychological and physiological disorders in different ways or to different degrees than do other alters in the same body.

What is the best way to deal with alters?

All alters are a part of somebody and unless they are extremely harming the body, or the host says they want them to integrate, the focus would be best to be thriving together. It can be very hard to understand an alter. We use a journal to communicate what needs done in a day, what has happened and what we are feeling.

Can alters function independently of each other?

Each can function independently. All the alters together make up the person’s whole personality. Alters typically develop from dissociation caused by prolonged early childhood trauma, although attachment problems and persistent neglect in very early childhood are also known factors.