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* Undesirable and even life-threatening things can happen when parts of a person are unaware of his or her current bodily limitations. The following example might be extreme but it illustrates just how out of touch parts of a person can be. A friend of mine had little alters who got so furious at me that they said they hated me (when they had previously liked me) because I suggested that their body was not well enough for them to risk playing in the snow. She had at the time a body temperature of 104 (40 degrees Celsius), was coughing, had suspected pneumonia, a kidney infection, viral infection, serious stomach infection, ulcers, gastritis and cancer. Just the day before, her parts had thought they had a nimble light-weight body that could climb a tall tree to rescue their cat. They came crashing to the ground. The day before that, she had rushed into a burning building and had to be hospitalized for smoke inhalation. I know this string of events seems unbelievable, but just the day before that she almost drowned in a large, deep lake when the air temperature was 22 degrees (-5.5 Celsius) with a wind chill of 14 (-10 Celsius).

* I have had many email exchanges with a devoted Christian, highly committed to her marriage, whose ignorance of one of her alters led her to commit adultery. Her loving husband and her other parts were fully aware that she had D.I.D. but they decided to “protect” her from this information, feeling confident that it was safe to keep her ignorant. Unknown to all of them, another part, acting totally differently to the rest of them, was engaging in sexual liaisons with a man who was boarding with them. The first any of the rest of them knew of it was when she found herself pregnant and the man confessed.

* Through no fault of their own, child sex abuse victims have serious sexual dysfunction thrust upon them. When this is identified they can be healed, but when ignored it can have unexpected consequences. People usually have some alters who would flee from any sexual situation. This can lead them to presume that their every other alter is similar, but alters can differ greatly. Until every alter is discovered and understood it, is not possible to rule out that an unknown alter, reeling in distress and confusion, could end up molesting their own children or others they have access to. The likelihood is not high. The responsibile thing to do, however, is to give top priority to getting to know your alters.

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