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Ohey, so I have dissociative identity disorder and this thread piqued my interest. In therapy, I was told that normal people have "parts", the difference between them and me is that their parts are more integrated, while these parts remained unintegrated and became more discrete and separate to the point of functioning like and being perceived as separate people ("alter identities"). This happened because I suffered extensive, prolonged, multifaceted trauma as a child. From this, I can gather two things relevant to the claim of the title: * Yeah, the idea of a single homogeneous unchanging unified self identity is an illusion that masks the multiplicity of parts that composes it. Effectively: *singularity* is the illusion. This I think is what you're referencing? Those therapists would agree with you if so! * Equally though, overt multiplicity is itself an illusion? The main alter here that people know, Amber, seems like a separate person, acts separate, subjectively feels separate, but apparently she is actually just a "part". An unusually complex, individuated, autonomous, discrete self-state who diverged when we were a child to handle overwhelming trauma, but a part nonetheless; we're not *actually* separate people. Like yeah, "all minds dissociate from themselves creating various selves" in the title seems a tad extreme a claim. I can 100% support the idea that singularity of self is an illusion and also that there's a spectrum of "multiplicity", but the statement that everyone has dissociatively created self-states is a big reach IMO. I'm curious if the "larger claims" pertain to this?