Well, IMO, there's a difference between those kinds of jobs-- we've got those-- and "alters with jobs"; i.e. the ISH, the angry one, the flirtatious one, etc. A person who just happens to fulfil a particular role, is not the same thing as that person existing only for that role-- it can be part of your identity in that sense, but shouldn't be the only thing you have to hold onto.
It's fine to start out using that as a base to make sense of things. When the system is running well, people come into their own with time, like you described. The problem comes in when people aren't allowed to move beyond an initial role. A lot of skeptics and critics of MPD/DID therapy complained about the 'one-dimensional alters'; I think in some cases this was manufacturing people to suit the demands of a therapist, and in other cases, they were real people but weren't allowed to move beyond the role into which they were pigeonholed. Conventional wisdom was that 'certain types of alters' were common to every multiple, and when someone was found who seemed appropriate to fill the stock role, they basically ended up locked into that-- we experienced a little bit of that ourselves.
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It's fine to start out using that as a base to make sense of things. When the system is running well, people come into their own with time, like you described. The problem comes in when people aren't allowed to move beyond an initial role. A lot of skeptics and critics of MPD/DID therapy complained about the 'one-dimensional alters'; I think in some cases this was manufacturing people to suit the demands of a therapist, and in other cases, they were real people but weren't allowed to move beyond the role into which they were pigeonholed. Conventional wisdom was that 'certain types of alters' were common to every multiple, and when someone was found who seemed appropriate to fill the stock role, they basically ended up locked into that-- we experienced a little bit of that ourselves.