DID focused mental health sideblog

the norman bates icon is half ironic

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📌 intro post

Avery - xe/xem pronouns preferred, he/him tolerated - young adult (older than 18) - half deaf - white and jewish - 100% antizionist - PNW 🌲 - my main is @acoffinyoursize 👍

ྐ❤︎ I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder in January of 2025. My goal with this blog is to connect with other people who have Complex Dissociative Disorders, and hopefully learn more about myself and how DID manifests in me! This blog will also be a place for me to simply post about living with trauma, PTSD, and DID in general.

ྐ❤︎ I am also diagnosed with CPTSD, Autism, ADHD, and Depression. I am a cancer survivor with a very rare kind of brain tumor (Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma). I have special interests in psychology, vampires, and horror :)

ྐ❤︎ I am those one in a million people who actually loves talking about mental health and trauma! I find discussing my experiences to be very therapeutic, even outside of therapy. I am an open book. Feel free to ask me any questions about DID or whatever

ྐ❤︎ The subject of child abuse will come up on this blog but I will always use trigger warnings in the tags

❌Boundaries:

ྐ❤︎ Do not call me Plural. I hate that term when it’s used on me

ྐ❤︎ Do not call me a system. Please say “person with DID” or something similar. I use the term for myself occasionally, but I don’t want others to use it to describe me

ྐ❤︎ I prefer the terms alters, personalities, and parts opposed to headmates or any other word

ྐ❤︎ I am 100% against endogenic or any non traumagenic “systems”. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Disagree with me? Ignore or block me. Same goes for "radqueers"

If you so much as “support” these morons, may your crops be contaminated by plague and may your loved ones resort to cannibalism starting with you

ྐ❤︎ and on a less serious note please do not spam like or reblog me

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an alter of mine has a southern accent (family is from tx, and i already have a slight accent from living there briefly and being raised by a texan) but no one thinks that its an alter fronting because sometimes my voice cracks and my accent exaggerates a little bit so people think its that, not DID.

do any of my followers have an alter with a noticeable accent? whats that like for you?

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my therapist keeps urging me to find community online for people with CDDs. tumblr, twitter, bluesky, tiktok, and instagram are all hell but weirdly enough r/DID is decent. however, redditors seem to have the worst opinions on mental illness, like theyre the type of people that say that if you lack empathy youre a sociopath, that sort of thing. does anyone have any recommendations for CDD communities online that arent discourse ridden but also populated by normal people? maybe a discord server?

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While empathy, sympathy, and compassion are connected for most people, that doesn’t mean to feel one you have to feel the others

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remember:

empathy: you literally feel what someone else is feeling

sympathy: you feel *for* someone

compassion: you feel motivation to alleviate someone’s suffering

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While empathy, sympathy, and compassion are connected for most people, that doesn’t mean to feel one you have to feel the others

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I've spent my entire life being described as + identifying with the term high empathy, but for a while now I've been less and less empathetic, and my low empathy partner's pointed out that I stopped having as much empathy when I cut off lots of shitheads. I have to say, it is honestly fucking freeing to be able to look at a situation with my logic instead of my feelings.

you are so right. also congrats on being low empathy 4 low empathy with your partner thats rad

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Hello neurotypical. Are you normal about the fact that I am unable to feel empathy as an emotional response?

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Everyone in the notes like "Yeah! I'm normal about this, as long as you're not an evil asshole that kicks puppies" has failed the test.

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Thank you person in the tags

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@ people with low/fluctuating/no empathy, what are some things you like about not feeling empathy “normally”, if at all?

for me, i have always been logic driven but after getting diagnosed with autism and discovering i lack empathy, i embraced who i am and that made my grades in high school even better.

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What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

I'm sorry THAT'S what's in this book??

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when i got diagnosed with DID i told a close irl friend and then he, within a few days, told me he was an endo system and literally copy and pasted a couple of my alters. im no longer friends with him (obviously) but im still pissed off about it

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its been about a year and a half since i parted ways with this person and out of morbid curiosity i checked his tumblr blog and hes still pretending :/

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i have a friend irl who is also diagnosed with DID but its not comfortable sharing its experiences, which is understandable and i respect that. most people arent exactly as open as i am with talking about symptoms of a disorder caused by trauma. but i do feel really alone. obviously i love talking to people online about mental health but i really benefit from being around people physically.

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.I FORGOT TO QUEUE INSTEAD OF SPAM RB SORRY

it was while i was asleep anyway so its all good

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i had a dream the other night i committed a crime (trespassing) and i couldnt remember it because i was so dissociated. new stressor just dropped yay

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my lack of empathy has never made me a violent or uncaring person, if anything it has made me more confused about why people act the way they do

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demonization of DID and mental illness aside this name is so fucking funny to me. dissociative dennis.

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> sees “evil” alter in system (as appointed by other ppl)

> looks inside

> scared persecutor with a lot of trauma and pushes people away because of it

> *wtf*