Tw: ableism, fakeclaiming, homophobia, long rant incoming.
"exposing the most annoying DID faker on tiktok"
excuse me who the fuck are you???
Most annoying type of person, and the worst part is i was looking for some knowledge on DID (from the mouths of people with DID, not from the mouths of people like this (🤮)) on youtube (which probably wasn't a good idea but it's not a crime to have hope right?, right?...), but these kinds of videos just kept on clogging my search. do you really think you're doing something for the community, you really think pwDID aren't going to be acused of faking it?, especially since people have no clue (😏 ← clueless) what DID can look like, what it is and what it isn't, what people with DID have to go through (not being believed, getting fakeclaimed, not getting the help/resources they need because medical professionals are often bumbling idiots who just magically acquired a phd (cuz there's no way they got them through merit, clearly), not being recognised for who they are, the entirety of who they are, not just one alter, but the whole thing, etc, etc, etc.), and if this bullshit slop content is what shows up first when they look up anything about it, how the hell are they going to actually learn any of that?.
It's the same thing with other demonized or discourseified disorders like npd, aspd (all of that bullshit about psychopaths and socipaths, not even real diagnoses anymore btw, not that these people would care), bpd, autism, the whole schizoid spectrum/cluster a (forgive me if that's not the right pronunciation), bipolar disorder........... hell, people even do it with queer people, like accusing bisexuals of faking it, same with asexuals, same with nonbinary people (think the term "theyfab" and bullshit of the sort), same with transmasc people (the whole spectrum), trans women are treated like the sexual predator gender (even cis men are treated like that, which is a conversation far more nuanced than what i'm capable of, there is more of a precedent but, you know, there is nothing inherent about being a sex pest, you're not assigned rapist at birth, it doesn't work like that, but it's far more complicated than what i'm capable of discussing, please don't burn me alive for this one ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ), everything we do is a sign of our perversion and our evil Norman Bates tendencies (Psycho set the trans community back decades, maybe even centuries..).
we (all of the disorders and genders/sexualities i mentioned) can't even exist in the internet outside of our few safe spaces because people outside of our communities (and even people inside for fucks' sake) seem to have a huge interest in making our very existence a subject of mockery, interrogation, discourse, demonization, and generally, unwanted observation and surveillance. hell, these people would even accuse their youngest children of having an evil disorder if it would make them money (think the mother (Ava i think was her name(?)) in "we need to talk about kevin"), nevermind the harm this would cause their children, nevermind the harm it would cause to oher children whose parents watch this slop content about evil disorders religiously (if you want some more digestible explanation on this, look up "fairytale logic").
Ableism is so widespread within popular culture that calling it out makes you a buzzkill, it leads to you getting a hundred iterations of "it's not that deep" from people who really shouldn't even be allowed to speak over us, because who the fuck are they?, hell, you all already know this, we've all seen it, we've all been on the receiving end... it's all so tiring
