This form of amnesia occurs when an individual has no recollection of memories, tasks, or personal information across the different identities they obtain. This is now required by the DSM-IV for a correct diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder (Kong, Allen & Glisky, 2008). Many researchers have found that one of the specific features of cross-identity amnesia is evidence of memory transfer across identities on unconscious tasks such as completing word fragments, learning sequences, and recognizing masked words. Conversely, they also found that patients show cross-identity amnesia on explicit memory tasks such as story recall (Kong, Allen & Glisky, 2008). This is consistent across all forms of amnesia, making it a very accurate and critical way to diagnose DID. Inter-identity amnesia gave specificity in the diagnosis of the disease and left less room for misdiagnosis. This leads to the belief that dissociative identity disorder is not just a myth but also a tragic reality for many