Written in 2022:

It isn’t DID. I am not a system. I’m a guy with fierce compartmentalizing strategies. It felt like there were different hats I put on to shut down bits and pieces of me, go numb, and keep on trucking. Different aspects of my own self. “Them” is “Me”, but they aren’t me, separate but the same, I’m conscious but disconnected. It’s so hard to explain.