oh we interpreted the wording of that question to be "is it possible for an alter to talk to you without revealing the part of the system they're from" oops! which yeah of course it would be. and that's what we were saying had never happened to us! like I don't think we've ever had someone from a different layer speak to us and not reveal that that layer exists. but layers for us are also temporary and tend to fuse? I don't know I just work here these are made up words.

BUT no we did have instances of members talking to me before I realised I was a system. it was always difficult/impossible to differentiate them from my own internal dialogue and sometimes still is so! didn't work it out until one of them was very aggressively disagreeing and even identifying differently during a period of trauma and stress.