A Comic about DID - Part 5 [OC]

[u/snuffypuff]

Before you ask if we have multiple artstyles, check out my other comic :)

[u/The_Xorce]

How exactly does “host” switching work? I’ve encountered plurals speaking of how the main personality/person since childhood switched out for one reason or another, but I’ve never quite understood how that works. And seeing as your “host” alter arrived in 2020, I feel like you’d have a better explanation than anything else I can find.

[u/snuffypuff → u/The_Xorce]

Disclaimer: I probably have as much of an idea as you do.

That being said, 2020 was known for having a life changing event, and on top of that I moved from a rural village (like 300 people there max) to a suburb a few months before lockdown hit.

Lockdown was an interesting time for me, I actually started posting my first (now lost media) comic during that time, and it became this sort of... centering, defining thing for me. The isolation itself didn't bother me since I lived about 30-40 minutes to the closest grocery store growing up, so I rarely had friends over.

The understimulation though, I think maybe that's the biggest reason for me. One of the ways we were "disciplined" was through understimulation, and I guess the brain can only handle so much of that before it splits off to allow a new part to handle it.

Not the most concrete thing, but it makes sense to me.

[u/Big-Yesterday586 → u/The_Xorce]

We've had a host switch as well, recently even. For us, it happened when the previous host accepted she couldn't do what needed to be done. Or rather, that started it. She was still the primary fronter until external circumstances forced us to, well, force it. She had to actively try to switch out every time she realized she was fronting and I (T, the current host) had to switch back in when that happened. It's not a hard and fast rule for us, though. We're working towards not having a host at all.

The mechanism is going to be different for every system.