What specifically makes you switch?

little Daria, this was the new thread I started about this topic:

dissociative-identity/topic202985.html

TheyBrokeMe wrote:I never cease to be amazed at how bright and self-aware DIDers are, and so expressive. It would make an interesting topic to see if anyone thinks those qualities are linked in some possible way to DID)

I've read that DID is highly correlated with intelligence and creativity. When I was just finding out about parts and feeling so overwhelmed and damaged, it helped me so much to read the posts on here and to see how articulate, intelligent, insightful, and kind people were. I actually felt somewhat intimidated and not worthy of joining the conversation at first, but everyone has been so supportive and validating. I can't even imagine how I would get along without this forum. Certainly I would be progressing much more slowly and being much more distressed about the weirdness of things which turn out to be very common among us.

TheGangsAllHere wrote:little Daria, this was the new thread I started about this topic:

dissociative-identity/topic202985.html

TheyBrokeMe wrote:I never cease to be amazed at how bright and self-aware DIDers are, and so expressive. It would make an interesting topic to see if anyone thinks those qualities are linked in some possible way to DID)

I've read that DID is highly correlated with intelligence and creativity. When I was just finding out about parts and feeling so overwhelmed and damaged, it helped me so much to read the posts on here and to see how articulate, intelligent, insightful, and kind people were. I actually felt somewhat intimidated and not worthy of joining the conversation at first, but everyone has been so supportive and validating. I can't even imagine how I would get along without this forum...

We have often wondered if creativity and intelligence are factors when it comes to DID. Our creativity, much of it anyways, comes from our pain, and we have a lot of pain to draw from. Our creative writing, poetry and song writing, seems to often be a cathartic expression of inner turmoil. We have been writing since we could pick up a crayon. We are also musical.