I have some experience with two people who had DIS/multiple personalities and with the (non-)acceptance of psychiatrists and psychologists. One person might get a borderline disorder instead of DIS. At least Frank Putnam’s MPD book has large stretches that are not good or factual or good science (and do sometimes lack patient centering) Edit: Read Huldra’s comment about him, they highlight important consequences of his ideas.

I have a couple of theories of, but mostly it doesn’t matter so much. What matters is how we want to interact with bodies that we recognize. We do ascribe to them a sense of continuity and permanence which obviously is wrong and yet not seldom useful. We do ascribe to them certain patterns of acceptable or estimated behavior, too. A clearly neurodivergent friend I have gets cut much more slack if he isn’t finding the right tone of cultural civility, which is the right thing to do. Other people would get more scold for failing social cues.

What matters in interacting with DIS is that you yourself are still allowed boundaries and it isn’t a failure not to get not communicated things. Though it is nice to talk to people as they want to be talked to, even if that varies.

Was that person a full on troll? Damn, they said some stuff that helped things click for me with less common gender identities. I’m worried I was duped into believing some harmful bullshit now.

I don’t have DID, but a pretty mild form of OSDD, I think. It’s like, breaks in memory, extremely varying amounts of gender dysphoria, between like paralysing sadness after seeing my beard shadow and being able to walk around in swimming trunks on a beach. Political opinions swing from social democracy to “the GPCR was the best thing that ever happened.” Different likes in food etc, different behaviour, from nice and charming to constant anger. I try to figure myself out, but therapists are and will never ever help, so I am left to do so on my own. I have two alters that I can consistently identify. It even affects my autism, one alter is almost NT and another one pretty autistic. There are probably some more, but bc of Opsec, no details. I am also extremely suggestible, which I can use for autosuggestive stuff, incidentially giving me decent discipline, but complicating any discussion of that topic (bc people are like “you just convinced yourself you have got it”)

@President_Obama@hexbear.net since you asked in the closed mega, this answers your q as well

Also, to note, being a system doesn’t relieve us of responsibility for our stuff, is our take. We community police ourselves, so to speak and like even if the alter that is extremely sexual is fronting, the rest is somewhat in control to uphold thought. It is not like a car where only one person can drive, i’d guess.