Small little thing, but I’ve seen a lot of people call out systems for “faking” because they do “the blink” when they switch / dissociate, but honest to god, it is really hard to focus back in when dissociating / extremely zoned out without doing some odd form of blink may that be rapid blinking or a hard blink? Cause most of the time the eyes aren’t fixated on a point in the surroundings or they’ve been open for god knows how long
Like literally, my fiance’s mom is very dissociative and has implied she has been diagnosed with DID (C-PTSD at the very least) and she doesn’t do any of DID Community or any of DID Media and even she has the spacey look and what my fiance (knowing both of us very well) call the “dissociative blink”
It isn’t something that is “over dramatized” or “faking”. To be honest it is something that really just comes naturally with trying to ground post dissociation a lot of the time???
Also if anyone wants to comment, I was diagnosed / experienced DID before I knew really much about my fiance’s mom. Only recently found out she apparently had it too like... three or four months ago.
-Riku (Host)
