chromoideasthesia:

“People with dissociative identity disorder often find that they have inconsistent access to skills, such as one knows a foreign language the other alters never knew they spoke”

What I thought this meant before I was diagnosed: one alter speaks five languages fluently, another alter is an olympic level archer, another alter knows advanced martial arts.

What it actually meant: one alter really sucks at making out, another can’t remember how to blow raspberries, only one alter remembers how to write in cursive.

If i may add to this,

• One alter has an eidetic memory, everyone else can’t remember what day it is, what they last ate, or how to speak their mother language fluently
• Three people have such a high pain tolerance they almost don’t feel pain, three other people have such a low pain tolerance they limp for days after stubbing a toe
• One person is fluent is three languages but can’t choose which one he speaks when
• Another group is only fluent in a language we haven’t learned and not any of the ones we have which means they CANT SPEAK
• One person is a ballerina with perfect posture, everyone else is a slouchy shuffle monster
• The aformentioned person fluent in three languages also is the only one good at math but if we have him do math that means doing it in whichever language he’s stuck in at the time. American math teachers do not take kindly to answers in Japanese.
• One person is a genius but he thinks so hard and so much he gives us terrible headaches