[ SECRET POST #7042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why are people replying to this saying DID is incredibly rare, a quick google search says it's like 1-3% of the population. And I'd honestly expect that to be higher in hobby spaces that are overall high in neurodivergent and otherwise weird people.
Honestly given those numbers and the amount of people I've run into who are open about having DID, there have gotta be more people who have it and aren't open about it, than people who are faking having it.

(Sources for numbers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK568768/, https://www.sheppardpratt.org/knowledge-center/condition/dissociative-identity-disorder-did/)

[(Anonymous)]

You know there are very specific diagnostic criteria for this, right? And I have NEVER seen a single fandom person claiming to have it display *anything* remotely like the actual diagnostic criteria symptoms. All I've ever seen then do is act precisely like they're RP-ing with their OCs they made up, or, in a lot of cases, with anime or video game characters they claim are part of their "system." Actual DID cases don't make Tumblr posts where they "switch who's fronting" several times in the same post and ID each new "alter" as it pops up by name and/or font changes

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, you're free to believe that everyone who says they're mentally ill in a particular way online is wrong or malicious, I guess? I'm just saying that given my understanding of the prevalence of DID and the proportion of fandom that's neurodivergent, there should be a lot of people with DID in fandom. More than I actually see. Maybe it's true that none of the people who claim to have DID actually have it, fuck if I know, I can't tell whether someone meets diagnostic criteria for anything based on their posts, but you can't either. All that would mean is that there are even more people who have it and don't feel comfortable being open about it.

[(Anonymous)]

1. your source link is broken and shows nothing.

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK568768/, https://www.sheppardpratt.org/knowledge-center/condition/dissociative-identity-disorder-did

Another article talking about whether it's actually real at all. It's a hotly contested diagnosis because it's so hard to get a reliable sample size to actually work off of, and there's all kinds of social contextual stuff going into it.

It's complicated and hard to study.

[(Anonymous)]

It's very underdiagnosed precisely because it's controversial whether it even exists, psychological health practice is bad in a lot of places, and identity formation is cultural and highly dependent on very young childhood experience to begin with.

The extreme cases that get diagnosed by experts and then debated endlessly are just the tip of the iceberg, like autism when that was newly named and discovered. Lots more people have dissociated identity that does not cause them nearly so much life problems, since it's a compensation disorder in the first place, a somewhat maladaptive way some minds deal with PTSD especially at young ages that then causes greater issues as they get older.

I've known quite a few people with this disorder, which I think would be very unlikely if it was as rare as some claim. 1-3% seems possible but a bit high to me, maybe more like 0.5% would be my guess, but that's pretty random. These are people who had very precarious or horrifying young childhoods, often raised by foster parents or by single parents with severe difficulties of their own, schizophrenia or fast cycling bipolar for example. Often eldest or only children who had difficulty with peers as well.

That kind of isolation and precarity creates an environment where a person can't form a stable identity, so sometimes, they just end up with more than one.

I don't have it myself, but one of my two life partners has it, and I've met three people online with it for real, and I know in person two more. These aren't kids, they're people in their thirties to seventies who have overcome a lot to get to a stable position in life. They don't have any "fictive" identities, and they don't "age regress" visibly, none of this stuff.

But they can't remember (for the most part) their young childhood, or even most of elementary school age, it's part of some hidden/lost younger self that they no longer have access to. They clearly lose track of everything that's going on around them on some occasions and start guessing/pretending they know (sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's impressive). I am going to go out on a pretty sturdy limb and say that a person doing this for 20 years consistently would be a nearly insane level of committing to the bit, so if they don't have DID they have some kind of OCD that makes them pretend to? Occam's Razor and I just am going to go with they really are on whatever DID spectrum may exist, whether or not they qualify with the DSV or whatever the initialism is for that diagnostic manual.

The identities form themselves out of memories. I suppose if the person read a book as a young child in the middle of the situation that caused the dissociation, one of the identities might be that of a character in that book, or a tv show they were watching at that time, but it won't be a current read or watch. Honestly these teen behaviors do sound like bs and roleplaying to make up for some emotional issues? That's just not what people living with the condition act like in my experience. Or maybe it's just their ages ("body" ages lol).