Accidental Creation, Question about creating what I belive to be are 'thought forms' Options

Since I was about 12 I would create characters as I like to call them. At first they were on paper and only there ... then they seemed to widdle their way into ... well, me. They talk and they seem to take on certain purposes within myself, almost like a strange possession or like I'm using their attributes. I know this sounds like I'm crazy, but they seem to have developed a mind of their own .... I know longer know if they even originated from me because they're so different from my initial intentions..... They even have their own .. voices now. There are now more than five of them. It's not like they're harmful, but I want to know what they are and what exactly I did to make them or where they came from if they aren't from me.

My personalities were never aware of each other. Took me a few months to convince everybody in me that there were others.

m-lo, mat-chew, previously-referred-to-as-matt, matthew the great: i'm having trouble understanding how this is possible. if they are unaware of other personalities, how did you ever figure out they were there? for that matter, how do you convince another personality of anything? when you are in that personality mode, you are that personality. or so it is for me; you might be referring to something different.