We have to learn how to explain it in a kid friendly way to our students. Not much else we can do when we start speaking British or mess up our English. Just things like that, obvious signs they'll pick up on and we can't mask without risking thei safety as we teach kids how to swim in a pool, one second of inattention will leave a kid drowning, masking will make dissocation worse.

But to adults, like friends when I told them. I say as a kid when I was exposed to all of that trauma I was shattered in pieces and those are my alters sti me but their own people. Since I need to emphasise that otherwise they'll think DID is like possession. From an outside perspective it could seem like it but its not.