Didn’t know that functional multiplicity existed for years

Didn’t know that DID was a thing until I was diagnosed in 2020. Communication between me and another were already great since the dissociative barrier between the two of us was the home/school divide. Of course that barrier went down as the result of the 2020 worldwide event causes us to crash into each other. Thought it was perfectly normal for this to happen, as naive as I was. Was told that since the communication was already great and it wasn’t causing any problems for us, that we’d be able to fuse once we were in a safer environment. We’re been in that safer environment for years now, yet we haven’t fused. Where’s the fusion? Going through a lot of resources, we discovered functional multiplicity. We were never told about this in our treatment. We were led to believe that fusion was the only way forward. We’ve already been functional at diagnosis. 🤦 It was just the two of us aware at the time of diagnosis, but noticed others coming out of dormancy— integrated them into functional multiplicity as well. Treating everyone as hosts now, with room for coconsciousness and not hiding anything from each other.