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My casual explanations are a combination of academic research, personal experience, and community feedback.

Footnotes: A colloquial term for less elaborated parts is a “fragment,” usually in reference to a part who holds a particular emotion or memory and not much else.

No matter where a part is on the elaboration spectrum, they deserve respect and consideration.

[Check out my DID/OSDD Casually Explained masterpost for sources and more infographics!]

[clever-and-unique-name]

My casual explanations are a combination of academic research, personal experience, and community feedback. These are informal (or loosely defined) terms for common DID/OSDD experiences, and may not be applicable to every DID/OSDD system. Some systems may have additional experiences not listed.

[Check out my DID/OSDD Casually Explained masterpost for sources and more infographics!]

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Finally sat down and made this, after a lot of deliberation.

This casual explanation addresses the theory of Structural Dissociation in regards to DID/OSDD, and if you’d like to learn more you can read “The Haunted Self” by  Onno van der Hart, Ellert Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele. Or you can check out this article written by the same authors. Be warned, both are quite clinical and use language you might find confronting if you are a system!

[Check out my DID/OSDD Casually Explained masterpost for sources and more infographics!]