Yes, you can have DID or OSDD without being able to recall any memories of trauma. A lack of knowledge about such memories is not evidence that you did not experience trauma. It is common for people who have DID and OSDD to have trauma memories that are cordoned off behind dissociative barriers. A person may have some idea that they are there but not be able to access them or they may have no idea at all that those memories are there, accessible to other parts but not them.
It is also possible that you may be able to recall memories of events that were actually traumatic for you, but which you haven’t identified as traumatic. For instance, if a particular punishment was simply “normal” or how things were in your family growing up, you might be unaware that it affected you strongly enough to be considered trauma.
This page is part of the Could I Really Have DID, or Am I Imagining It? section of the CommuniDID site, which explains why recovery can feel slow, confusing, or discouraging and why experiences like grief, exhaustion, and resistance are common during the healing process.
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