Even though the tag name is frequently Abigail, she is rarely the actual personality who is posting. I, like many others in my system, prefer not to think of self as separate from the host personality. I know that I’m not her. In fact, chances are she doesn’t even hear me or know of me personally. The core of the prevalent reason so many of us choose to remain anonymous comes from a very traumatic experience when we were treated abusively by someone who believed we were all demons except the birth personality. There is no chance of that happening again; but especially with the growing prejudice against the DID diagnosis, we don’t feel safe being identified by our own names. We don’t do it to cause confusion. We just would rather be anonymous than vulnerable. Sometimes it creates confusion in therapy sessions; but all of the professionals we work with are very supportive of whoever is out, even when that person doesn’t want to be identified by a name.

Maybe we will be willing to separate out our posts according to who is out and doing the posting some time in the future. We set this blog up originally so that we could do that.
For now, though, we will stick to the way we have been posting for over a year now – just making personal comments by whoever is out at the time of the post, and doing it under the sign-in name of Abigail.