parts holding specific skills?

While our drawing skills and styles vary a little it's more something that we would notice rather than something that is stark enough for somebody external to take note of.

When it comes to sewing however I do think the difference is quite noticeable. Rae can sew you a perfect little doll dress. Odessa will quite happily pick up Rae's sewing but really only sews seams that are already prepared. Anything else and she doesn't have the patience. No way could Odessa create a pattern. Rae just plain doesn't need one but she could draw you one up no worries. The rest of us don't sew. At all.

We haven't been learning an instrument for very long yet but while we all seem to hover close and have some skill in that direction only Idris is up to date with his lessons and does our musical homework.

Rae knows a lot of words the others don't. She was a keen reader of the dictionary once upon a time


That's all I can think of right now.
We're actually comparatively low on invidivudal skills. I think we've been relatively co-con for a long while before finding out we're DID. Also we're a pretty highly camouflaged system. It's near as dammit impossible to tell us apart - no noteable changes in our voice etc. I feel like I should be ever so grateful for this but sometimes I feel like my individuality parade is being rained on

Let me get you an umbrella for that parade

I can definitely relate to this. Our drawing levels are really really notieable. Some of our littles draw just as a little child would, and some older ones are really talented. We have one who can sew nicely (not great but good enough) and most can't at all. We have a few who can play an instrument and others who can't at all. We have some who can bake well even without much of a recipe and others who can barely hold a fork and so forth.

I think it's very common. It's strange sometimes seeing yourself be able to do something you couldn't for the life of you do 5 minutes ago.