🔞 - What was it like growing up with DID?
I actually really wanted this question!
I feel like there’s a very specific viewpoint singlets try to shove into existence, that people either don’t know they have DID at all, or they know it from the start and so does everyone else.
And for us, growing up having DID was being 6 years old, and having imaginary friends who talked to you, kept you company, and protected you physically. That’s all it was, because at 6 that’s all you know, imaginary friends.
It was being 10, still having these friends and feeling like you were too old to still have imaginary friends, and realising that you were losing time but never really knowing why, blaming it on genetics or something.
It was being 12, being confused why your gender and sexuality was changing, blaming it on being hormonal, like everyone else said, thinking you were just going through that stage in life.
And then we found out this wasn’t normal, but had no words for it, had no words for these not-imaginary-friends and why they were here, and then you mislabel yourself, trying to work out why you weren’t normal.
Then it clicked when we saw Jekyll and Hyde, that was us! We were scary, monstrous, to be feared. We were the evil to everyone else’s good. This realisation didn’t feel good. And then everywhere we went, we saw it, the fear in people when they couldn’t understand why this thing was happening to poor innocent people, how could this happen in our perfect society!
When we actually figured it out, and saw people like us, not scary, not terrifying, just people.
Tl;dr - growing up with DID was difficult, then we found community, and through that we found ourselves
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