I am traumogenic (trauma created/clinical DID) plural system. It is highly likely that I never had a "core personality" that I was born as and instead have always had either an infant mental state or multiple personalities. (During the time most babies begin to form a coherent personality, I formed several. It is possible that not every system forms like this but highly like I did)
Every time I've felt I was singular, I've experienced mental walls, amnesia and other DID symptoms. If someone could do a "I'm singular ama" that'd be cool because I have questions too. :)
I appreciate all these posts a ton. they helped me learn something about myself.
this part is especially interesting for me. my traumatic experiences began around age 9 or 10 but your descriptions of alters and fronting actually resonate with me as, while I definitely don't have anything near the same severity category as DID, I did have at least one... something... separate from the... something else... that dealt with reality, for a time, and there are perhaps more pieces I'm less aware of. my transition has helped me mostly reintegrate but reading this thread made me realize that there's more complexity still here than I'd realized. I don't know, I've never really thought about this in these terms before and I'll have to reprocess some experiences to be sure.
I'll check out the podcast you recommended, for sure.
Easy Ego State Interventions might be a helpful text as well. One of the good things about the Plural Association and the Hearing Voices movement is that they are open to people without a diagnosis and have a broader inclusion of experiences beyond DID/OSDD.
Hope that helps. Also the cut off age is debated.