"omg You're A System!!! It Just Be So Fun To Have Friends In Your Head!!!"

"omg you're a system!!! it just be so fun to have friends in your head!!!"

Yeah. They are my friends but you know what's really not fucking fun? Seeing how intelligent an alter is and how much they want to pursue their dream career but they can't because we share a body. Seeing how creative and talented alters are but we can't spend hours and hours drawing because we share a body and the body has to work. Seeing that an alter really wants to do something and we just don't have time, they say it's okay but we share a body and I know how they really feel.

Yeah I have friends in my head and I'm constantly letting them down because the things we all want aren't physically possible. Yeah that's really fun.

Not gonna lie, as someone who had previously self diagnosed and now someone who is officially diagnosed, I agree, to an extent.

People should be doing in depth research to self diagnose (though I think most people don't sadly), and honestly even if you think you have it, and have self diagnosed, just.. treat the symptoms. I shout this from the rooftops all the time. I see people on the internet, especially TikTok, going "oh this is did" at one symptom of a disorder and it makes me cringe. I do think that self diagnosis is an actual problem and misinformation spreads like wildfire.

However.

People should not be shamed out of a community simply because they think they have a disorder. I welcome people who think they have DID, while also telling them to focus on symptoms and get in with therapy if possible. If you think you have DID but you aren't diagnosed, it's okay to hang around to get information or just have people to relate to. And regardless of diagnosis, nobody should be educating anyone without sources to back up their claims.

And I don't know if this is a hot take, but if you want to treat what you feel are separated parts of you as separated parts of you / people? Go for it. Just watch your symptoms. If they get worse, try stopping and see if they get better. Do what helps you the most, because that's what matters above all else, in my opinion.

extremely hot take, like something that's gotten me death threats before:

i don't think people should self-diagnose themselves with DID/OSDD. there's so many different disorders that have extremely similar symptoms (CPTSD can even have dissociative states similar to alters, so can BPD), which is exactly why it takes professionals YEARS to diagnose someone. people shouldn't be self-diagnosing something that can be indistinguishable from delusion or psychosis, especially when they're young and their mind is more suggestible. even if someone thinks they're being objective, they're always gonna have a confirmation bias once they THINK they know what's wrong with them.

if someone can't afford therapy or a diagnosis, they should just do self-therapy based on their symptoms and not spread their personal experiences as fact, when they can't even confirm they have the disorder in the first place. that's honestly why there's SO much misinformation out there about DID in the first place...

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It’s hilarious just how many littles have stuck around from peak childhood era so occasional they just say a random meme.

Someone just started singing ‘it’s raining tacos’

Well, this new chapter sure has been… eventful. Idk where exactly all liquified folks go, but I’ve decided to let them just hang out in some other realm and be pals. When Ame no Gozen liquifies another one, I’ll add them to this group. New drinking game unlocked~

hi any life advice for 21yo

Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.

Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.

Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.

There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.

Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.

Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.

Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.

Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.

Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.

If you ever get to the point that things are so bleak you can see no other way forward but to die, make any other choice. If that means leaving everything you own and being a beach bum, or quitting your career, or taking up or leaving a religion, or deciding to bicycle across the country, so be it; living means more chances, dying means everything stops and you don't get to see any more interesting things. As you have not yet seen all the things that can interest you, it is better to live.

Sometimes I think I'm too open on the internet. And then sometimes I go "it could be worse".

I cant tell if it's worse or okay right now honestly?