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big appreciation for pro-endo traumagenic systems.... you all are so great. it'd be so easy to fall into the dark side (I'm purposely wording this in a funny way lmao) yet here you are actively rooting for and defending and supporting us. thank you so much it's always great to see
when you can't really engage in the spotify wrapped fun because it's a mess of 3+ people's music tastes
still freaking out from when we came out as plural last night
I don't know how I managed to sleep
the friend's sent a little list of questions to get to know me better... how cute is that... we picked the right person to come out to
she's on tumblr we're gonna end up sending her our blog eventually (just need to teach her basic plural terminology so that she's not completely lost)
hi C
am I allowed to say your name here
lynn always means well but his vibes are unreadable sometimes
[ID: A four-panel comic in a simplistic style. Panel 1: Our headmate Lynn, a fictive of Pink Steven Universe, smooths out our bedsheets. Panel 2: Side profile of Lynn as he looks to the side and says: "Screen. You are next, yes?". His dialogue is in blocky handwriting, the sentences are spaced out, and he is emanating squiggly lines to denote a possibly menacing vibe. Panel 3: Screen stares, processing. Panel 4: Screen moves suddenly, his hands in front of him. He says: "oh! (underlined.) for fronting. ah-- yeah. I am. yeah. scared me for a sec." /End ID]
very nervous to be making this post because this is something we'd been keeping to ourselves but.. especially after our Big Boy Trauma happened (which was way after system formation) and since when we learned to switch... we fit the criteria for OSDD-1.
literally the only criterion that we can say doesn't happen is the distress and impairment one, which is why we still call ourselves non-disordered for short. we never had all the "symptoms" (for lack of a better word) and were in distress about them within the same timeframe.
it's essentially why we hate it when people say that did/osdd and non-disordered plurality are fundamentally different? like, hi... all that really happened after trauma did its thing is that we dissociate a decent bit more (already did before, we think due to our adhd) and have to help each other out around triggers sometimes.. we're still plural in the same ways...
thesis statement: given the information about your experiences that you have shared in your post, i think your statement of "[we] fit the DSM-5 OSDD criterion" is false. HOWEVER, i think that you should be able to explore the OSDD label anyway, whether that means that you are just using it as an identity label or using it to better understand how to treat your trauma symptoms better (this does not mean treating your plurality! this means treating your reactions to triggers and the type of dissociation that impairs your life).
but i said i was here to give you info about OSDD diagnostic labels, so let me start there first.
you might already know this, but the thing about diagnostic labels is that "clinically significant distress or impairment" is a very important, but also vague criterion that is put onto all disorders in order to label them as a disorder. even with all other criteria of a diagnostic label met, without this criterion, an individual cannot be said to fit that label. that being said, i think diagnostic labels are a very tight box that are used for very specific purposes (insurance, mainly), and can be wholly irrelevant to how a person identifies and what their personal experience is.
another thing about the OSDD diagnostic label is that it kind of is a "miscellaneous label" for clinicians to diagnose patients with a disorder when they dont totally fit the criteria for DID or something else. the purpose of the OSDD diagnostic label is for people to be able to tell their insurance, "hey, i have a mental health problem, but clinicians can't explicitly say DID, so here is a catch-all diagnostic code for you so i can prove that i need medical/mental health care." the label is specifically for disordered people to still get help, essentially.
or, it originally was. now, people have kind of taken it and made it into a sort of identity label, which, while understandable (wanting a label to understand your personal experience makes sense), makes things a little confusing as the CDD community (a population of people seeking mental health help for their disorder) collides with the endogenic plurality community (a population of people who have similar experiences regarding plurality and want to celebrate this identity)
i dont think "[your] experience fits the DSM-5 OSDD criterion, given that [you] do not experience clinically significant distress or impairment" is necessarily an accurate statement, and i think your post is a little misleading on that point.
BUT, i also think that you should have the freedom to explore the OSDD label and see if your personal experience can be fit under the OSDD umbrella, because who am i to say who can and can't claim that their experiences line up with those who have OSDD? i don't know anything about your experiences beyond what you've shared about them on one post. (1/2)
ohh I get what you're saying. yeah, I think our post (here for anyone confused) wasn't worded that well.. it does sound really weird if you take it as "we fit the label that needs distress and impairment but we don't have distress and impairment". would be like saying, I dunno, "I'm a fork but I don't have tines"
the intent of the post was more like "huh, we could be calling it osdd if not for the distress and impairment criterion"
but disorders are called disorders for a reason, I see where you're coming from.
ty for encouraging us to explore the label anyway :D! and feel free to share your views on our stance, you've got me interested :]
single-panel eva made earlier this year lmao
[ID: A single-panel comic featuring a person with piercings labeled "goth fren" and our headmate Eva, both sitting at a table. Goth fren is holding a written sheet of paper and says, laughing: "HAHA I love how your handwriting changed as you got more fed up with the subject". Eva is sweating nervously and replies: "yeah that's the only reason, sure". /End ID]
third fakeclaim 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
