Myth The alters always are other human personalities. NON-human ‘alters’ cannot exist Since the cause of DID is rooted in childhood trauma and the abuse is inflicted by other humans, the children are usually afraid of the adults, and these ‘alters’ develop to dissociate them from their memories [6]. The inhuman ‘alters’ are fairly common as well. A harmless animal, a feared robot, or an entity may feel safer than the terrifying world around them. The appearance or development of alters is not a person’s conscious decision or is never decided by the person.
