intro post: about my stance
this blog exists because the online conversation around dissociative disorders has warped itself into an odd, nigh impenetrable kind of echo chamber.
so many people out there are faking DID since the 2020 peak, and it's disheartening. the trend encourages impressionable young people to pathologize normal experiences. to mimic debilitating symptoms for attention, aesthetic, or belonging. so, so few of the people who claim to have alter-based disorders--even to be diagnosed--clearly don't understand the reality of those disorders, let alone truly have them.
in short, this is what i believe:
DID is a severe childhood trauma disorder, not an identity.
the vast majority of people claiming to have it online do not. it has become a way to roleplay popular characters.
sufferers are not "systems" of multiple people--they're one person, split into parts. they should be treated as such.
language matters. in real cases, calling dissociated self-states "system members", "headmates", etc. only feeds into the delusion of plurality.
on that note, plurality is a delusion. a trauma-induced one, but a delusion nonetheless. it should be understood this way.
recovery through final fusion is a reasonable, valid, and worthwhile goal.
no, this isn't "ableist". no, i won't be taking your advice to "listen to real systems", because chances are? you aren't one.
feel free to send asks. i won't sugarcoat.