Plurality had a history even before it entered the medical/psychology field.
The ideals that sysmeds and stubborn singlets have with just limiting and excluding (mainly) system plurality to just a/with a disorder or trauma-only experience, is indeed itself racist, anti-cultural/culture dismissing, medicalizing, and ableist.
Plurality both outside and inside system experiences, has existed for years in many cultures, metaphysics/spiritual/relating practices, religions, etc, and just simply stating that itâs just a mere thing of the medical or psychology field, just removes the fuck ton of history the whole concept has already been built on by said communities experiences.
Surprise, surprise, and a good amount of those within the communities didnât have any experiences with even viewing it as something of a mental disorder or a thing of just trauma, in fact plurality could have been seen as a normal thing/practice, important or even sacred thing, part of the ideal with deities or major status or even religious ideal, etc, it all depended on who you talked with, and even the community alone.Â
And even on the concept/topic of âtrauma,â both the ICD-11 and DSM-V call DID/OSDD a dissociative disorder, and not a trauma/trauma-relating, and trauma to begin with, isnât even âtrue criteriaâ or criteria at all by shown on the ICD-11 and DSM-V. While it is common/usually seen that for those with DID/OSDD to have trauma, but that in itself doesnât remove the fact that there are those with DID/OSDD or being diagnosed with it, without trauma and yet still fit the criteria.
âBut theyâre professionals who believe itâs trauma onlyâ
Ok and? That doesnât defeat the purpose of how the criteria is written, professionals can have opinions on disorders, just like some professionals believe said disorders like, for example, âADHD or autism doesnât exist or arenât true disorders,â that doesnât make it an official thing now does it?Â
Itâs no oneâs right to diagnose or (mis)label someone elseâs experience, nor it invalidate no oneâs experience to be different from others, whether disorder or not, the experience for plurality isnât a universal, and especially, speaking as BIPOC and multi-religious plural, iâll be pissed as hell if someone (especially white and EVEN singlet) came to me& or someone I know and just spat bs medical takes on plurality.
Just for the love of god, people just assume outright over just someone saying their âendoâ or ânon-traumagenicâ and start spitting bullshit without even listening in to anyoneâs experience, all types of plurality is valid, whether disordered or non-disorder, and whether traumagenic or endogenic, no one should be debating on how people work or even fucking exist.
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