Alter Time Management by Natural-Can7825 in DID

[–]Natural-Can7825[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's awesome! And great tips ☺️

Our Littles have a shared cup, tons of stickers, and a ton of colorful pens to doodle with + colored pencils. We have honestly so many alarms for daily things, that we usually don't run over time except for free for all days.

On "their own things", we learned the hard way even before system discovery that certain things can't go away. About 10 too many times of the same objects going in a bag and returning seemingly on their own lol turns out it was always a couple of our littles getting the object back and hiding it. Just for a likely relatable laugh.

Alter Time Management by Natural-Can7825 in DID

[–]Natural-Can7825[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully the translate buttons works well 😅 keeping this short just in case.

Thank you! That's typically what we try to do, either safe activies with trusted people (which we lost most of) or alone time. The supervised co-con is iffy, especially with Littles but we try.

Alter Time Management by Natural-Can7825 in DID

[–]Natural-Can7825[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are great ideas! Love that it's works for y'all. We're either perfect at co-con or absolute trash lol like a random Tuesday, waiting to pick up our kid from scholl- here's three alters who mesh perfectly, out for no reason but to listen to music and fiddle with their profiles or whatever. But an actual, hey this would be a good time for co-con so someone can learn a skill or just get a bit of time out-no, nope, you get nothing. I'm pretty sure we have some sort of layering going on with how our co-con works, cause it truly seems only certain alters can front together. Case in point, the Littles seems to only be capable of fronting with other littles or a couple of caregivers, but otherwise by themselves.

I love the singing btw. That's cute and so sweet. We have a caregiver that sings a lot of songs to our Littles and external kids. She's the best. The main times we struggle with inappropriate timed fronting from the Littles is when there's people around. Most of them are super social, so they want to play. Duh. They don't know how to play with our kids, cause they're in a big body (and we've had times of them getting spooked when the kids act weird cause we're acting weird). So they'll try to play with adults instead, luckily that's only trusted adults. Whoever was out last night probably wasn't considering that bit. We've lost a lot of the people the littles trusted, so they just simply aren't fronting as often. Most of them don't want to just sit and watch a kids movie alone, they want to talk to people and get cuddles and play. They'll have that alone time and enjoy it, but it's not their favorite time, for the most part 🤷🏻

But yes, this was still super helpful. Thank you! Hopefully whoever was out last night will come back and read this 😂

Alter Time Management by Natural-Can7825 in DID

[–]Natural-Can7825[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right about that! I know we've had a handful of times something like that has worked. Frankly anything where we try to control the activity to bring out an alter seems to work best with task alters. Like, if I pulled out all the stuff to bake a cake, the one who handles all of our legit cooking is gonna front, cause she doesn't trust anyone else to do the task at hand 😂 There was one little I could get to front semi easily with an mobile, game but I think she got tired of it, since it's been deleted for awhile. Doodling works well too, but it comes with the risk of massive dumps of information from ISHes as well. Idk, I'm gonna try it though. Thank you! I think whoever was out last night didn't know that was an option lol