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MoodOk2847

DID and being multilingual - anyone else struggles with this?

Personal Experiences

I'm (host) multilingual. Ethnically Chinese, but I also was raised to speak Malay, English and I self-studied Spanish.

Now I'm gonna sound insane here, but I couldn't find anywhere else that talked about what I experience as a system.

Some of us can't speak those languages, or speak better than others. Our skill levels are all over the place. I mainly speak English, as I am in an international school, but it is such a damn struggle when suddenly, I'm not me, and the alter fronting needs Google translate to speak English - which baffles me when I spoke it my whole life.

Same with Chinese - speak it at home, school, online, yet I have an alter who can't understand Chinese yet speaks better Spanish than me - when I front 80% of the time, and I do all the studying.

It's just a crazy - sometimes funny, sometimes inconvenient experience.

Wondering if there are others like me?

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC

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