How often do you switch?

I think I do it all the time without realizing. This is not so surprising now that I

a) know I have different parts,

b) know that one is hyper-vigilant to danger from other people and is triggered by so many normal situations,

c) have read the "understanding what people say" thread.

Most of the time when I have a conversation, I'll get tired by it and have to go away after on my own to talk through with the rest of me what got said by us and the outsider. Or just "listen" while they show me images or whatever. If I don't do this then next time I meet that person I won't remember all the conversation we had before, and I don't want to be constantly asking people the same questions or telling them the same things like I've got alzheimers or something. I guess that's because I must be switching back and forth all through the conversation. I'm impressed at my level of internal co-operation though. I feel lucky compared to the difficulties some people write on here.

Also does anyone else type a post, click submit, then have to go read it because you don't know what you just wrote, only that you wrote something? I'm guessing that's somebody else wanting to keep up with what's going on. X

Yes to all that! Thank goodness we can edit our posts for a short while!

I don't really know. As far as time loss switching, I would say I've only done it 2 to 4 times in my life, all within 2 days. As far as being EXTREMELY influenced by child parts/other parts, and feeling like I'm fighting for control, that happens all the time.

And a lot of times I go back and read a post, not because I don't remember it, but because it seems to get absorbed into some other part of my brain that way.

I "switch" often. I too have the whole: i just wrote something but can't for the life of me know what it was... thing. I have that with conversations: forgetting what I just said, or what the other person has just said, or just zoning out altogether.

Much fun =D

It depends. At my mother's house, "Me" is out the whole time unless someone gets angry. So about 4-5 times a day. At my father's house, "Me" comes out when I'm alone, but often "I" takes place because my father abd his girlfirend are considered as hostiles. 15-20 times a day. At school, "I" is put the whole time, with some occurances of "Myself". "Me" also comes out when I'm alone but she leaves the moment someone tries to interact with her.

We're usually co-con with each other, but during the school day? At least twenty times. Those of us good at socializing aren't good at actual school work, and vice versa. So we have to keep going back and forth to keep up with that.
~Rage

It depends.

If we feel safe, we switch a lot. I'm generally co-con with them, but I remember living in the dorm at school last year and having two or three people out a day. It was nice.

But...now that we live with our aunt who's toxic and who likes calling me out for random sh*t I shouldn't have to do...we try to limit the switching to at night or maybe if we're out, because everyone either is scared of her or hates her guts, and that would be, well...bad to express, obviously.

Everyday, for different circumstances. We tend to share our time out in control so that we can each have our turns doing things we want to do. (For example, Cassie enjoys playing board games while she's out). If we don't feel ok with consciously switching (like if we're around people that don't know us as well), we'll usually be co-conscious. A trigger can cause us to switch, too. I think we trigger-switch about twice a week at least. The most common one is Kat being triggered by how angry I get. She often turns my anger into rage and when I reach a certain anger level, she can't take it anymore and will force her way out in control and act on the rage she feels.

We switch pretty easily. On any given day, usually 2-3 of us 13+ are coconsious and running the show while others & children do... well whatever.
The only times it's forced are if A) something someone paticurlaly loves comes up or B) there's a threat to body/friend

But. Eh. We kinda figured it was normal in childhood, and learned about it again as teenagers ("Oh, they're not imaginary friends and there's a reason I black out occasionally and have 4 different handwritings") so it was probably easier for us to reach this point than it is for other systems

Thanks for your replies everyone. I feel a bit better about it now. I'm usually co-conscious to some degree too. X