Heh, your situation sounds a bit like mine. One of my others used to be my imaginary friend when I was a kid. Someone I could tell my little childish secrets to, someone I could talk to, someone I could play with and not feel so lonely. As I got older, he sort of dissappeared (or maybe I just dismissed him out of my mind). Lately, however, he's popped back up and he seems to have grown with me and has developed into a full person on his own. He doesn't front a lot, he knows better than that. Except that he talks alot and has a hard time shutting up sometimes. Can get very distracting.

I have others, one or two that I sort of remember when I was a kid, and some that just seemed to have appeared spontaneously at different times for no reason at all. Some maybe just fragments of people, others feel like they're actually real people in my head. I feel some stronger than others and at different times too.

I also have a dark other who doesn't come around often but when she does, it's just very scary. She doesn't talk to anyone either, nor does anyone really want to talk to her. I haven't been able to get a word out of her, but one of my others (the first one I mentioned above) has tried to talk to her and he says he won't ever do it again. She freaked him out that much.

I, too, feel like I'm going crazy, sometimes. I'm the 'core' (main fronter and probably the first one in here). When my others started to appear (or re-appear in some cases) just recently this year, I started to think I was going crazy. I kept thinking that there's no way anyone in the world is as crazy as me. Then I found this community, and a few online friends who share my experience and I feel comforted by it all. I haven't been diagnosed by my therapist as having DID or anything yet, but I have just started to see him. So I don't know if I have it either.

I'm glad you have found this community :)