Imagine If A Bunch Of People Started Claiming To Be "endogenic Borderlines" Or "nondisordered Borderlines"

imagine if a bunch of people started claiming to be "endogenic borderlines" or "nondisordered borderlines"

and then when people with BPD started correcting them and saying "hey, BPD is a very serious mental illness and under the TOSD it's impossible to develop it without trauma" they just responded with "we never claimed to have BPD, we're borderlines without BPD"

that's how you sound calling yourselves endogenic / nondisordered systems

man fuck explaining my disorder in detail to other people like if you tell people you have an identity disorder they shouldnt question any sudden changes in behavior/personality/whatever. idk why DID systems get constantly pushed into this box of like "give out information about all your alters else people will doubt whether youre a real system and think youre faking" like WTF. you dont have to explain SHIT to ANYONE you dont need to name every alter you have you dont have to explain or justify nothing just exist in your own way and be you and if anyone questions why youre different you can say you have DID and end it at that

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One of our hosts anyway

[Text: This system’s host identifies as a robot and sometimes has a similar innerworld appearance.]

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Oh hello, it was us pre-DX

another interesting excerpt from 'understanding and treating dissociative identity disorder: a relational approach'.

this matches the experiences of many people i know of with DID, where they have an inkling of what they're actually experiencing, but may have no language to describe it, and/or may assume that it's normal.

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an excerpt from the book "understanding and treating dissociative identity disorder: a relational approach". it reads as follows:

"People with DID often do not know about their dissociative identities. Or, they may “sort of” know: They have an inkling, but they do not have the conceptual or emotional language yet to spell it out to themselves. Sometimes, if they do know, even sort of know, they may assume that every- one else is similar. Living in such a haze, people with DID often find it dif- ficult even to think about, much less communicate about, their dissociative problems. Moreover, even when they know they have dissociative problems, they are often, for good reason, loath to reveal it: They fear being regarded as “crazy” and of being “put away.” They also fear they are crazy. As a result, the assessment must be conducted with great care and sensitivity."

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We’ve always had an issue with people establishing emotions about some of our fictives before even knowing them just based on their source so

Yeah. Well enough said

quick liddol psa on interacting with fictives

treat fictives like people please i am begging you

do not tell them that you simp for them or that you dislike them simply based on their source 

do not ask them questions about their source unless they say it’s okay (especially about their relationships with other characters) 

ask before discussing their source with them

don’t push your headcanons onto them, or insist that what they experienced was’t real because it didn’t happen in canon

i know it’s exciting that your comfort character is kind of real. i know you want to tell us how much you like/hate us. but please just use basic manners. it is not that hard. 

[for those who don’t know- fictives are alters that are based on fictional characters. this doesn’t mean that they act like the canon character.]