Thread:User talk:Q/Child Alters

page: http://www.dissociative-identity-disorder.net/wiki/Child_alters

RE: "Each alter will have its own way of being - complete with idiomatic autobiographical memory, procedural and general knowledge, behavior, physical sensations, emotions and skills unique to their part of the personality."

IMO, it should include "cultural outlooks, moralities, and values" since we know this is true, e.g. our child alter "Mikie" was groomed and lived in a sub-culture where it was tolerated, therefore 'his' values are not the same as ours. Kind of hard to find "professional documentation" on this kind of thing for citation purposes. Just something we've seen in ourselves and others: parts whose social 'sense' or values are wrong / conflict with those of older or other alters.

Quick grammatical correction: "When an alter takes "executive control" of the person, then often the alter who's job it is to function in daily life, does not have any memory of this time period."

should be

When an alter takes "executive control" of the person, then often the alter who's job it is to function in daily life does not have any memory of this time period." (lose the 2nd comma) Quick test for this type of grammatical 'error' is to read the sentence with the part "between the commas" gone, as an old English teacher taught me. If it doesn't make sense then one of the commas are wrong.

Didn't want to 'mess with' the page you were working on.

I assume this is Quentin, BTW? and thanks for taking this project on. You are to be congratulated on this as well as the others.