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Imaginarie friends our Dissociative Identaty Disorder ?

Daniela

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I have a obssesion with mental ilness and disorders.

And lately one of mine obssesions as been D.I.D

One becouse it allways facinate me , the concept of na other personalty in you , and becouse life , at least for me was tought , I say at least for me , becouse some other people say this is nothing so... yeah.

Everyone disassociates a litle , we aspies do that a lot, like when we are on our special interest and we dont notice how much time as gone by , that is a disassociation.

our your watching a movie and you cant hear what the other person as said , becouse you are realy focused on the movie.
(disassociation our hiperfocous ? hmmm XD)

Becouse some of the simptoms are similar to the traits of an aspie ,I got confused.

Becouse I have Imaginarie friends.

They where a lot when I was a kid but then they shorted for 2 with some other apearing once and again....

Now alters (the other "person" on DID ) is a fragment of a ´persons personalty , like dor exemple.
Ana is general easy going and very smily , but when she is angry she dosent look like herself. ~She expresses herself diferently , and acts diferently, but she recalls all the events and all that she felt ...now imagine that the angry part of Ana is split into a drive for exemple, Ana is drive A and the anger ana (lets call it Susan) its the drive B, if you understand computers you know what I mean there is one computer , but a lot of frangments in the disc.
And so when Ana is in a situation when someone does something to her, instead of getting angry and keeping all the info. the other disc , Susan comes out and takes care of the situation, and she is the one that keeps the info.

So...I hope is not too confusing.

I nowadays have 2 imaginarie friends.

Sara and Kédrick.
(Kédrick is a male in case anyone is asking)

Sara was ...since I remember there, she once told me that she was there to take care of me. Well she was in fact and still is older then me.
When I was litle she was more visual. Like I would "see" her. It was like I was monologuing.

like

" Do you want to save the world ? "-me
"Hell yeah!" - Sara

But it would be just me talking.

I grew up and I started having this dreams with a ...men.

Yes you gess it, it was Kédrcik.

Kédrick is way older then me, by way older I mean 24.

I´m 20. Sara´s 21.

It would be wierd since we where in this wourld...that was ...beutifull... it was... I cant explain it. but allmost every time I would dream about him it was on that wourld....and sometimes Sara was there....yeah.

Later on I toght this was strange and for some time I toght this was somethig spiritual, becouse it felt as we have met before.... as we knew each other since ever.

going a litle bit back I remember I was realy afraid of going to school becouse of the feeling of lonelyness I had, I had no friends , I couldnt make friends. So one day, I was feeling realy overwhelmed with that, and , you know your voice in your head? Yeah I heard a voice like that too , but it was diferente then mine, it was a guy voice.

"You´ll never be alone , you have me, I´m your friend , I´ll be here with you."

And this is how I started to think in the way I think. Our maybe not... becouse I talked with Sara and the others like this. And I gess I allwyas did but , I took it internaly becouse once I was at the street and someone told me something about me talking to someone that wasent there.

so yeah.

later on Sara ... intergrated with me.
Yes I use that term becouse it was what I actualy felt.
My psychologist once told me " but you know they are both you...right?"
"yeah...but"
But it dosent feel that way , it does but it dosent, its like they have they lifes, like they hare real persons , like they are separated persons from me, but at the same time they are me.

So Sara , the litle Sara , was now intergrated with me, like we had the same reactions and stuff, but Sara continued to exist , like , but now she was the intelectual side of me, and she was not very active.

Kédrick was the very active one.

In all my emotional instabilaties , our the lack of afection I had Kédrick would come , and would try to supress that.

I grew up I learned about aspergers and I toght , well they are just my imaginarie friends.

What made me think this was DID was this.

There was a tought situation once. So ... Kédrick steped in and was like stay with me , just ignore, stay with me, we did this once remember ? Just shut her off and we stay together...
But I wasent okay, and I was tring realy hard to shut the situation off but I coudnt, and I started to think that if I had na other "disc " an alter , It would be awsome, becouse I wouldnt have to deal with all of that. So I was thinking this , and Kédrick was saying no, becouse I need to face this by my self, so I can grow and all. and then an other guy, just came up, and was suporting me. And he said if I wanted to he could go outside and talk to the person, he said what he would say and I was like ,no thats too strong, I dont remember what we said next , but , what happen next was the wierdst thing ever. I felted my self going to the back of my eyes our something, and I "saw" my mouth opening and saying stuff to the person. but I wasent feeling anything, it was like I was watching someone else doing it.
So yeah.
I went to a fórum and I read it was like, co-hosting, like I´m the host but there is an other people being an host as well... so yeah.
Then I began to notice that , I intregrate with Kédrick as well like, when I needed to confort someone like one of my friends , I would like be like Kédrick with the soft voice , with the smile, and ...I would talk like a guy sometimes, but it was me. I mean me, like what happen above didnt happen this time, it was me , but it was an other facet of me....
And Sara is the same , Sara now, is acting way older then I am, I feel like a kid and she is beaving reponsably , at least in my head.
So I feel like they are facets of me, only they have names, and they talk to me and I with them...
But at the same time I ask my self if this isint like an Imaginarie friends thing....

oh by the way, why did I mention that thing of the wourld that kédrick was in, I found out that, that wourld is Kédrick wourld, becouse once I was Imagine my self with him, and when I tried real hard , I was on that wourld again with him , feeling the same feeling I was feeling in the dream.

DID patients talk about a Inner wourld when they go when they are not froting....like when they are not in charge of the body.

But it could be my imagination too..

So ... I dont know.

I would like to know for people that have Imaginarie friends over here if they feel it like this...
our if I started with Imaginarie friends , and by wanting them to be real so much , I endend up dessociating them a bit... our I might just be confusing this with traits of asperger.

If you read all of this , thank you !
 
Before I stumbled on to my self-diagnosis, I hung out with writers. DID sounds perfectly normal to me depending on what your hobbies are. I'd be more likely to explore the difference between the standard creative process of a writer and the needed bonding with a character to write a good story, and what strays more into the territory of proper DID imaginary friends.
 
I guess you could say I have "imaginary friends"…in a way…

As I've posted in a few threads here and there I am a gravid escapist, when stressed/bored I escape into a world in my head, where I can play out scenarios and converse with people who aren't there. They're real people, sometimes my real friends, but the scene isn't real, it's in my head. I have actually freaked people out before, with a blank look on my face and my lips slightly moving alongside nonexistent words, but what can I say to them? "Sorry, but I don't live in your world?"

I'd like to think I'm getting a better hold on it; I've been catching myself more and more and telling myself "stay with the real world, real things happen here!"

My fingers are crossed, but I will admit to having a fear of one day not being able to come back to reality. I am currently working these issues out with a therapist and I've recently hit the core issue with this problem, so hopefully it's just a matter of breaking an old habit.
 
Before I stumbled on to my self-diagnosis, I hung out with writers. DID sounds perfectly normal to me depending on what your hobbies are. I'd be more likely to explore the difference between the standard creative process of a writer and the needed bonding with a character to write a good story, and what strays more into the territory of proper DID imaginary friends.
So you mean the dissociation you have with ... writhing a story ?

I guess you could say I have "imaginary friends"…in a way…

As I've posted in a few threads here and there I am a gravid escapist, when stressed/bored I escape into a world in my head, where I can play out scenarios and converse with people who aren't there. They're real people, sometimes my real friends, but the scene isn't real, it's in my head. I have actually freaked people out before, with a blank look on my face and my lips slightly moving alongside nonexistent words, but what can I say to them? "Sorry, but I don't live in your world?"

I'd like to think I'm getting a better hold on it; I've been catching myself more and more and telling myself "stay with the real world, real things happen here!"

My fingers are crossed, but I will admit to having a fear of one day not being able to come back to reality. I am currently working these issues out with a therapist and I've recently hit the core issue with this problem, so hopefully it's just a matter of breaking an old habit.

That is a form of dissociation...I think ... but then again, it can be your stim, our your coping mechanism. I get what you say, sometimes , being asleep (our in your case , your wourld ) its less harder then being here :) But outside good things happen too :) we gotta keep reminding ourselfs of that !
 
So you mean the dissociation you have with ... writhing a story ?
Sorta, not quite. A LOT of people who write stories get very wrapped in their characters to the point it's like an alternate personality/identity of some sort. Very similar to how you described your personas. Usually the character exist for a long time before the actual stories do.
 

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