A Comic about DID - Part 9 [OC]

[u/snuffypuff]

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[u/--_BuG_--]

I'm sorry if these questions are stupid or disrespectful but I've never actually talked to someone with DID before so I'm curious

1. Does one of you front more or less often than others
2. Are you the original personality or an alter? (I'm sorry if that's rude to ask or if I worded it rudely)
3. Do you guys consult each other about large purchases or just buy the thing
4. Do you all get along?

[u/Huge_Band6227 → u/--_BuG_--]

Not the artist but:

1: Varies from system to system. Mine is pretty even.

2: There is no "original". Take a plate and shatter it. Which fragment is the original plate?

3: Depends, we usually consult.

4: Mostly. We have arguments.

[u/ThoughtIwasgoodprson → u/Huge_Band6227]

The second part was the most difficult for me to grasp. We always worked under the assumption that I was the original, and that he was an intrusion, a parasite, a foreign body injected due to the trauma. Took a lot of therapy to finally get myself AND him to realize we're both the same guy. Which, to an outsider is a "no duh" moment, but it's very different when you're living it and one identity is fronting 95% of the time.

[u/Fluffy3I8 → u/ThoughtIwasgoodprson]

We havent been diagnosed with anything and are still in the questioning/syscovery process, but there is a term for an "original" alter, being the core. This could be a feeling or metaphor that isnt true in reality, but we do consider our host our "core". Most of us "officially formed" after she stopped being in denial, and since she is the one who uses our old online name and identify the most with all of our accounts and posts? We just assume she was the first one here.

We don't know if she really IS the core or original, but but think that they are helps us deal with this hige realization about our identity and life as a whole.

[u/Vivians_Basement → u/Fluffy3I8]

Core could also be synonymous with like a "Load Bearing Alter".

So think Adam and how Eve is his rib. He's the original but he's missing a rib and Eve is the person who grew from that broken rib!

Once Eve is fully developed, they're both equally alters in the garden! Neither is worth more than the other. One was just there first.

Haley, Lazurys, Shiori, Vykrr, and Sierra are my Cores. They're the alters that ALL my alters spawn from.

The Common Ancester if you will.

Or the grandparents of the system.