Animal Alters

We have a dog that is very passive and occasionally barks but never growls or anything.

We have a lion that can be like a small child and talk when out... The lion will occasionally roar and shake her mane (I'm not sure why it's a 'her' but this lion(ess) has a mane...)

We have a fox that is quiet and slinks around. Trying to keep out of sight and only waking and moving during the dark of night. She is a silent fox.

Someone also just said we have a badger... I don't know anything about that... I wonder if they are telling the truth?

cool topic.

I have a whole whack of animal alters, but most are alters that identify as animals but have human traits. i only have two that are actual animals and they are involved in the initial split of my original from my core so are very primal. many of my youngest protectors tend to identify as animals even though they are human. i feel like they identify with animals because when my abuse happened i was very young so most aspects of my personality were not fully developed enough to have human self awareness and so they identify as animal.

i have two actual animal alters that i have found :

my first false front was an animal-like human/demonish entity: this one acts as a as a barrier/protector hiding my original self

my first inability to accept what was happening is a serpent: this one acts like an inner barrier/protector to the inner helper or my essence

here are some of my animal identifying alters that talk and dont act like true animals

my first emotional protector identifies as a wolf.

my first defense protector identifies as bear

my first intellectual protector identifies as an eagle

they talk but definitely have animal qualities.

Marie et al.

That's really interesting.

Rosied, your experience sounds very similar to mine. A large majority identify as animals but still have human attributes like talking or writing, etc. In the head, they most often appear as animals although occasionally a few of them will present themselves, for whatever reason, as a human. I'm not sure what causes that shift or change, if it's a different aspect of the same alter or something else all together. Either way, most of them don't like it when that happens. I've noticed that one in particular only ever appears human when she is emphasizing how different she is (this is a sticking point for her).

Thanks for all the responses, everyone.

We have a forty year old wolf protector named Silver. He doesn't talk and only protectes the younger members. And we have lots of alters who are supernatural creautes, mainly d*m*ns.

Demon Lilith wrote:And we have lots of alters who are supernatural creautes, mainly d*m*ns.

We have that too. Mostly we try not to think about them...

rosied wrote:cool topic.

I have a whole whack of animal alters, but most are alters that identify as animals but have human traits. i only have two that are actual animals and they are involved in the initial split of my original from my core so are very primal. many of my youngest protectors tend to identify as animals even though they are human. i feel like they identify with animals because when my abuse happened i was very young so most aspects of my personality were not fully developed enough to have human self awareness and so they identify as animal.

wow that makes a lot of sense to me too lol, my youngest inner child thought she was a dog, and im not entirely sure there isn't one in there somewhere ive always found it easier to relate to animals and always sort of identified as an animal in some way rather than a person, ...there's some wolf in there (though maybe this is just me), the wolf is friendly but distant, and a sort of protector. i think this is more me and how ive connected with the world in some ways for a long time (something i identify with myself rather than an alter of any sort). the dog is very friendly & affectionate, but its also sad and lonely and wants to be loved. if i wanted to be affectionate with people, i'd find myself wanting to act like a dog. lol (oh hell do i feel silly typing that)!! i guess with that whole healthy attachment thing, all parts of me have to be in on that... maybe i should get myself a big dog basket



my father hated dogs.

some of my other parts are a lot more human tho. as far as i know it looks like im the core, which that makes sense with all that too i guess.

i dont have any demons or anything, but parts of me that would like to be. lol

That's interesting. One of my alters is a dog and I'm pretty sure it's because my parents loved dogs so much.

that sounds like a good thing somehow?

in relation to my own experiences, im not sure - i was treated like a little object, and i felt i was never loved/accepted, often i felt (the real me) was hated. i was judged a lot. he hated dogs, and judged them as "bad".

ive also had a big attachment disorder component to my problems, possibly in a way not everyone with dissociative disorders has? (again, unsure.)

how i relate to my mum fits Dissociative disorder type attachment more closely, but i think my dad had NPD, not sure how that's likely to affect me, except that it gets associated with PDs especially BPD a lot. i dont know enough to make sense of it really.

I'm not sure if it was a good thing or not.

Had to remove the explanation. C was freaking out that I was sharing details.

Hi LittleRedDog.

I have two animal alters. I can't use their real names in here, so I'll just tell that one belongs to the feline species and one is a humanoid. Communication is not always easy. ^^;

My alters/parts are a bit unsure about this forum. Baby steps we take.