ABSTRACT
While nothing changed outwardly in the autistic way Caroline was with the author in the clinic, behind the scenes she continued to provide exceptionally fluent texts, which the author read aloud to us. The texts presented in the two months preceding the entry of Little Girl Caroline seem to have been written precisely in order to help the author understand this strange phenomenon of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): these texts are an invaluable description, coming from her inner experience of a dissociated person describing how it was for her. The author thinks Caroline’s writings are worthy of being text book material for understanding the phenomenology of DID. The past becomes the present and the present becomes the past – because that’s the only way that the trauma can be registered and have any hope of being told – given its own existence.
