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ok new blog is up!

please follow @evolvecybernation this is where i’ll be active nowadays. i’ll still keep this blog up for a bit but don’t be surprise is i delete it out of Shame randomly

i’ll start following people in the morning ok bye 👋

[spiral2005]

ok new blog is up!

please follow @evolvecybernation this is where i’ll be active nowadays. i’ll still keep this blog up for a bit but don’t be surprise is i delete it out of Shame randomly

i’ll start following people in the morning ok bye 👋

[spiral2005]

ok new blog is up!

please follow @evolvecybernation this is where i’ll be active nowadays. i’ll still keep this blog up for a bit but don’t be surprise is i delete it out of Shame randomly

i’ll start following people in the morning ok bye 👋

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i need to spread more "digital-assistant-virus-turned-sentient-ai-full-of-whimsy cookiedroid" propaganda. have a doodle <3

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they live in yr puter

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big man is the splatoon universe jerma in the way his fans treat him. just making shit up about him and putting him in random places. my headcanon

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i think eating one of these would fix my problems

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angel 🌼

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*turns in too, a chibi version of me* Wtf How I Change back

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what if i *remembers that making suicide jokes is not conducive with my goal of improving the wellbeing of myself and everyone around me* transform into an oyster

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i wont feel offended if you ignore this ask btw, i get that its asking something kind of personal! but can i ask what you mean by the internet treating DID as magical?

hi i actually enjoy DID questions don't worry LOL and i'm in the mood rn

when most people think about DID they are usually thinking about very overt cases with very distinct alters with vastly different personalities, different names, gender identities, etc. while this is a popular angle to imagine DID, overt cases like that are actually a pretty small percentage of what DID tends to look like. (of course, social media can push people's presentation to become more overt, which isn't fake/bad or anything, humans are social animals and the way we interact with each other can affect even our mental illnesses. additionally some people will become more overt after receiving therapy while they start communicating with alters for the first time. but my point is DID is not usually that strikingly obvious)

this popular perception also leaves out a lot of the rest of DID which falls in line with what people consider more "typical" disorders, PTSD symptoms galore, dissociation/dissociative amnesia, somatic pains and illness, comorbid conditions and physical disabilities. i think if people had more of an understanding of the non-alter parts of DID, it would ground the disorder a lot more and make it a lot less "magical" seeming.

but overall it all comes back to like... people not understanding that DID is just an extension of PTSD and other parts-based disorders. the same psychological process that makes PTSD/C-PTSD happen, BPD, etc, is what causes DID, it's just pushed to a far extreme due to when the trauma is experienced (very early childhood) and other factors surrounding that trauma, such as the length of time the trauma occurred over, or whether or not the child had stable caregivers and/or relief from traumatic events. DID is not some sort of completely separate category of mental illness - alters (the DID definition of them) may be unique to DID, but they come from the same place a ton of other mental illnesses do and there's a ton of overlapping symptoms between DID and pretty much every disorder caused by trauma.

i often see people act like DID is some far off life experience they couldn't even fathom or imagine living with, but if anyone just actually explained this shit properly i'm pretty sure most people, especially traumatized people, would go "oh that makes sense" and not feel so estranged from it lol. it's really frustrating because people continuing to see DID as this sort of magical, far-off experience, takes the disability/disorder out of it in conversation about it (people can only ever seem to talk about alters) and it also usually ends up spreading misinformation at the same time. there's sooo much bullshit about DID out there. good grief. it even hurts other people with trauma-based conditions that aren't DID

edit: wait also btw OSDD-1 is included in this conversation, i'm just using DID as shorthand instead of typing DID/OSDD every time and i am personally diagnosed with DID so lol

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hello cookiedroid tag today i bring you an awful alternate design. tomorrow? who knows

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you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

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does anyone feel the layer of plexiglass between themselves and the rest of the world or is that just a me thing