Diagnostic background:

I was born in 1963 and had immune deficiencies since 6 mths old. In 1965, aged 2, I was diagnosed as psychotic (in the 1960s autism was deemed childhood psychosis) in a 3 day hospital assessment.

I grew up with some of my selves becoming echolalic, others with Selective Mutism. Labeled emotionally disturbed by primary school, I was diagnosed with language processing disorder in late childhood around 1972 and one of my selves acquired functional speech by age 9-11 progressively paving the way for all to eventually have functional speech.

At 23, around 1986, I was diagnosed with Atypical Epilepsy after having fugues then diagnosed with autism in 1990. I was treated for PTSD for four years in my 30s and diagnosed with DID in 2010.

One year into therapy for DID my Core Self became present full time in the body and after considerable effort began to overcome extreme fear of speech and a marked stammer which had left me believing I was non-verbal I began to speak to people. My team of 9 human alters (all of whom are 'autistic' in different ways), 3 animal alters and 1 object alter (in addition to me as the Core Self) are on the road toward integration.

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NOTES:
only 8 of my human alters are presented here. The 9th (Katrina) wasn't acknowledged until after this video was made. After this we became aware of the three animal alters - Ning, Foosh, Opie and an object alter called Esby who are all coming to terms with their humanness. Esby has managed progressively to recognise herself as a human being and is begining to connect internally to speech and beginning to use verbal speech. Two of the animal alters have now had some minimal speech. Opie remains non-verbal. Katrina has developed internal language but is still largely non-verbal.

the Shirley Temple pictures are from Google Images in the public domain and are used here as stand in photos for the childhood photos one of the alters destroyed.

the music to the clip is Beyond The When from the CD Nobody Nowhere and is played here by LA pianist David Moscoe.

(Core Self in a team of 13 that includes Katrina, Willie, Anne (branch 1), Esby, Marnie (branch 2), Foosh, Ning, Opie, Polly Carol, Da, Rose (branch 3) and Addie.

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