One of the criteria is disassociation, and I'm trying to make sense of the past from the BPD perspective so I'm wondering if I experience this.

As a child, teenager and through early adulthood, I used to spend a great deal of time "daydreaming" by creating elaborate, fictional worlds and adventures. I would narrate them to myself and do the voices, and occasionally mime the actions. Sometimes I would do this aloud, other times (in public usually) inside my head.

These stories would take up hours of my time; I'd walk the dogs and tell the stories, or I'd narrate them internally while on buses, in the car, at work or in class. They would last weeks, sometimes months, as the stories became more elaborate.

Often I would "lose time" - realising I'd be walking for miles with no memory of the journey, or completely miss entire classes despite being sat in the room. Very often I would choose my solitary daydreaming over social interaction, and become irritated by people who interrupted me.

This continued until my early 30s, at which point I became more symptomatic of depression and anxiety.

Does this sound like disassociation? Or something else entirely? 