New here....Not sure if this is DID.

Hey all you guys =) I'm sort of new here, so if I mess up on something I'm sorry.....
I guess I'll start off with an introduction, sort of. I don't really want to disclose any of my personal information at the moment, so I guess you can call me M until I'm more comfortable here. I've been sort of stalking this forum for awhile to see what it's about, and so far I've liked it so I joined =)
On to other topics.....
I think I might have DID, but there's no official diagnosis. I've been looking it up extensively, and have some of the listed symptoms; memory loss, presence of others, etc etc. Before I get into that, though, I'd sort of like to introduce the people I know about right now, listed in the order I "discovered" them. There's Insane, who looks like a tall, black-cloaked figure with not many opinions; Punk, who looks like a green cybergoth and is outgoing, positive, and hyper; Derekren, who looks like Light from Death Note (in real people form) and encourages me to not trust anyone/be irritable; Ilyssa, who has long brown hair and dark ocean-blue eyes and a bright, caring personality; Seth, an emo-ish teenager with black hair/eyes, absolutely no social skills, no voice, and lots of opinions about touch/taste/sight; Blake, a ten-year-old with whispy white hair, blue eyes, little dog syndrome, and a very protective streak; and Pain, a twenty-year-old dressed in a shirt and tie with brown hair/eyes and a cold rage that he sometimes tries to push on me (also Derekren's older brother, I don't think they're on speaking terms and they avoid each other).
Moving on again....
Although I do find myself sharing many of the same traits as DID, there's one thing that's really catching me; switching. I've never entirely blacked out (that I can recall or remember, anyway) or felt that one of them (the people) has wanted to do that. I think part of it is that Insane keeps them in check, like he's the leader of them or something, and the other part is that they don't know how/don't want to. They do talk to me all the time, though, and some more than others; Seth, for example, comments on absolutely everything and asks me to do stuff the most (like pet the cat, drink tea, eat watermelon, etc.).
But, while they do bother me sometimes, they usually go away (as in, stop talking and I can't feel their presence anymore) when I ask them to. Sometimes they're reluctant/butthurt/stubborn about it, but eventually they do leave.
Another thing is that each of them has their own influence over me, like they change how I act/interact around/with others and my demeanor. Exept Insane (he seems to have no influence that I can make out, or that he's tried to put on me, but when he's around the whole back of my body tingles), they each have their own way of getting their individual effect on me. Seth, for example, usually asks for me to let him "out" a little, with the exeption of when my mom is around. But, like Derekren, some of them use one little thing that happens as an excuse to try and push their influence on me.
Some other things; other people can see the apparent change in character when one of the people is influencing me, sometimes before I even realize it; all of us are mostly quiet when typing or watching tv/movie/video; and it's sometimes hard to remember things, both short-term and long-term unless one of us makes an effort to remember.

So I guess hello again, and that's my introduction =). The main question that all that was for is: Does this sound like DID? I've told one friend (going to explain to another today) and two councelors at school who don't know enough about it to really answer that question. I'm just hoping that someone here can shed some light on this.....Thanks everyone =)

I think you may have DID, but I'm no doctor so I can't diagnose you. You may be experiencing co-consciousness and co-presence which is where you all are able to communicate with each other and live side-by-side, and they are more "with you" than out all on their own. But, they could be "out" on their own and you don't recognize it too. Having fuzzy memories or not remembering all of a situation could be when they have been out. We rarely lose memories because everyone tries to clue everyone else in, so we're thankful for that. On that note, there is also a lot of after-the-fact memory loss, when one of us is around the Body she forgets what she was partly there for after it's over because one of us is more present than she is. It's not strange for someone to have no black outs and still have DID from what I've heard.

Good luck with talking to your counselors .