How do I know you're not a murderer?

Okay, I made this question up, but pretend I didn't. :) My sarcastic response is that you've been watching too much TV. :) DID/MPD is a response to trauma (I refuse to label it a disorder, really). Because in our society we have a belief that people who have been subjected to trauma are likely to cause it, it makes sense that multiples are suspected of hiding all sorts of anti-social personalities who might do all kinds of nasty things.

My view is something like the reverse. My system was put together to absorb the trauma in a way that meant we could survive without killing anybody. In situations that most people would have to react to violently, we are capable of finding another way. So in that sense I'm one hundred percent sure that there are no murderers lurking in my system.

Also, the majority of the system are children, usually kind of scared children who have learned not to come out unless it's safe. This is one of the features of my system that makes work, for example, pretty easy. Only the people who would find work interesting tend to show up there. Despite all the separation, there is a kind of cohesiveness - that's what makes it a system rather than a statistic.