Welcome to another day! The next prompt in #Blogtober20 is “Sweet Child O’ Mine”. I don’t have children and never will. However, I do have inner child parts and am pretty childlike at times, for better or for worse.
As regular readers of my blog will know, I have some dissociative symptoms. Particularly, I experience identity confusion and identity alteration. The latter of those is more commonly known as having multiple personalities. They each have their own names and ages too.
For example, Milou is a cheerful eight-year-old. She loves to learn independence skills like cooking, where appropriate to her age, of course. She is also quite the adventurer.
Suzanne, on the other hand, is quite emotionally disturbed. She is seven-years-old and feels the burden of having to grow up too fast. She often regresses into an emotionally much younger state.
There are many young parts inside of my head. It goes too far to talk about them all here. I mean, it’d probably confuse all of you, as it does me sometimes (hence the identity confusion).
Also, of late, I’m not feeling them that much. Yes, I do feel childlike, but it’s more like I can own the feelings myself. That’s considered a sign of healing. It might be temporary though, as it often is.
Dissociative symptoms such as multiple personality are usually the result of trauma. I, indeed, endured quite a few adverse childhood experiences. I also experience a large gap between my intellectual ability and my emotional functioning. In fact, when being assessed on a scale for emotional development, I was said to function at a level similar to an eighteen-month-old child. On some subscales, I even function at a level similar to a baby. This distinction may be one reason I tend to disconnect from myself.
Of course, everyone has an inner child. Or maybe more than one. However, for me, I often cannot function like an adult would when I’m in inner child mode. For example, when a child part is prominently present in my body, I cannot usually talk like an adult would.
Right now, like I said, I am able to retain both my childlike wonder and my adult functioning for the most part. Like I said though, this may be a temporary experience. I’m not sure and only time will tell.
A Multitude of Musings 
How interesting to read about your dissociative symptoms and multiple personalities. x
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Thank you! 🙂
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We have an inner child here too and the cats have their inner kitten moments too.
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Aw, wonderful about the cats having their inner kitten moments as well.
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Thanks for sharing your story, it sounds like you must lead an interesting life.
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Thanks! Yeah, interesting it is for sure.
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Thank you for sharing your story and your symptoms. It was interesting to read.
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Thank you for sharing your story. It’s interesting to learn about your symptoms.
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Thanks so much for commenting! 🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing.
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Such an interesting insight into you, I am loving finding out more about you and learning about new things.
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Thank you. I’m loving reading about other people’s experiences too through participating in Blogtober.
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Have you heard of parts work? Might wana look into that. Sending hugs !
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Thanks. Is that the same as internal family systems? I have heard of that but don’t know that much about it.
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Yeah. I guess similar concept as internal family system. When so many aspects of our inner self don’t seem to agree with each other, we do that kind of work. I don’t know if this modality will help you. But may be YouTube ‘how to do parts work..,
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Thanks for explaining. I’ll look into it.
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I can relate as you know, as I have did also. I do think having parts is a lot harder than just having an inner child, I dont feel they are the same at all. For one the parts take control of your body, where as an inner child doesnt. Its hard work Lol!
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I agree. My inner parts definitely take over the body.
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