Language Issues

Has anyone else ever had issues with internal communication between alters not being in their native (human) language?

I'm pretty sure I have at least one alter who speaks in this rather rapid language. I can understand what they are intending even if I don't understand their language. As an example, they may say "aza'the'ev tala'disa kala'diam". I have an idea of what is meant.

I'm about 90% sure I've not talked about this. I know that this is how Anathema likes to talk.

Take care,
Vi

Not a Verbal language but Bobby created a visual language as they were non-verbal for many years (most of the bodies life until the last couple of years). A couple of us also know sign language fluently as Selective Mutism was an issue for several of us when out in public.

No-one speaks another verbal language but are all quite good at written (or typed) english even the youngest with the help of 'next word prediction' they can type their own posts...and of course we're used to watching everything on TV with subtitles so many are better at 'whole word recognition' than being able to work out how to spell something based on how the word sounds.

Jay

Thank you. It's been a bit weird to handle it. There's also a written language that I've run across in various places which is impossible to decipher as it isn't even in a script that is anything like I've seen. One of them was a recent entry which seemed to be alongside a list of our names.

I just wanted to check if others had run into something similar. Thank you again,
Vi

It is something I have come across in some dissociative people as well as some people identifying as otherkin.

My guess on how it works: the connexions within your brain allows for the meaning to be conveyed directly but the identity of the part/alter is not consistent with the usage of a language you know so you brain makes up a "local" "your brain only" language that is more logical for this identity to use.

Some people's brain are so efficient in doing this that they can create a new language like that with lists of vocabulary, grammar rules and so on. I find this fascinating and very creative and very impressive, what a brain can do just so that one alter can feel more comfortable in their own identity. And I am kinda jealous coz my brain only created less than a dozen words like that. Everything else is like "David is now speaking in hebrew but you hear that in french/english because of magical automatic translation". Which also feels weird.

Brains are weird. In an awesome kinda way.

Thank you. It helps to know that this is 'normal' (if anything with DID/OSDD can be considered normal) for at least some other systems. Given that so many of the alters here aren't human in internal form, it makes sense and our language apparently goes back into the teen years.

I know that Bri tried to write down the grammatical rules a while ago, but she would get a little ways and then forget or stop for some reason. I've found a few things with those notes. I've started again.

It's another case of feeling comfort in knowing that we're not alone with this.

When it comes to people outside the system, we long ago just said 'it's caused by a dysfunction in our brain' because we know they wouldn't really understand.

Take care,
Vi

no, but it is common for a child to make up a language only they understand or make one up with a sibling, friends, etc. so maybe that is what it is even if they are older. it also could have been done for protection. there are a few possibilities.

I am sorry if I misunderstood. It is still comforting that it happens even if it is a relic of childhood.

Vi