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DID is forcing me to reckon with the difference between knowing what happened and remembering it

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If you think anyone is obligated to change something about their appearance/ the way THEIR OWN BODY *NATURALLY* IS for your comfort, preferences, or any other reason, you need to grow the fuck up or die mad. I don't care if it's weight, body hair, scars, or whatever. Expecting others alter THEIR OWN BODY before you treat them with respect is an entitlement mentality if I've ever seen one.

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Disabled people with potentially hereditary conditions aren't being "irresponsible" and "immoral" if they want to have kids. To insist that a certain marginalized population inherently "shouldn't reproduce" regardless of individual circumstances is literally eugenics.

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created my very first zine about my personal experiences being in and out of the carceral psychiatric system. printable version under the cut:

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the thing is I just need to become perfect and then I’ll be loved

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dog teeth #308

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We love people with low and no empathy here!

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This disability pride month lets remember that it's ok if your room or house does not look like the room or house of a non-disabled person. Your clean doesn't have to look like the clean of a non disabled person. As long as your room or house is functional, safe and hygienic, your room or house is clean. If your room or house isn't, thats ok too.It's ok to struggle and it's ok to need a little extra help. It doesn't make you lazy or worthless.

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anxiety will have you thinking things like "will everyone hate me if i order coffee at the coffee shop" and "will people think i'm crazy if i work out at the gym"

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wait if roles are just descriptions of alter behavior what about like…UDD or OSDD-1a systems that dont really have roles at all? sorry im a little confused lol

Two things:

First of all, UDD isn't really it's own disorder. It's the unspecified diagnosis for the dissociative disorder class, which means it's the diagnosis that is given to someone if a professional identifies that they have some kind of dissociative disorder, but they don't have the time or resources to properly determine which one (this usually happens in emergency room settings, for example).

UDD is essentially a placeholder diagnosis, it's assumed that at a later date the person will be evaluated again to find out which disorder they specifically have. So a "UDD system" isn't really a thing, systems diagnosed with UDD actually just have DID, P-DID or OSDD and it just hasn't been determined which one yet.

In addition to that, "OSDD-1a" isn't really it's own thing either. 1a and 1b are outdated categories that come from the DSM-IV, when OSDD was still called DDNOS. The community's idea of "OSDD-1a", AKA "alters that are different versions of the same person" is most often just diagnosed as DID. Alters do not need to be extremely distinct to classify as DID. To fulfill Criterion A, alters just need to have "marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning". The bar is a lot lower than people think.

In addition to that, the two things that lead to a diagnosis of OSDD rather than DID are alter emancipation (degree of separation, i.e. amnesia) and elaboration (how developed their sense of identity is). These two concepts are interlinked and directly correlate to the level of structural dissociation a person experiences. This is because if alters have less amnesia between them, that means they will have more shared life experiences and therefore will have less opportunities to develop unique traits in response to experiences only they have had (which is how alters elaborate). Because of this, most people who have less distinct alters will also have lower amnesia and vice versa. This is why the idea of "1a" and "1b" as distinct categories isn't accurate.

To actually get into your question, it's not really possible to "not have roles" given that "roles", again, are just descriptions of how alters behave. Every alter will serve some purpose in their system, or they wouldn't have been any reason for them to split. Even if an alter doesn't really seem to have a full-on "job", they still exist for a reason. If you want to break it down to the most basic classification of alters, the role of all ANPs is to continue on with daily life, and the role of all EPs is to keep the memory and awareness of trauma away from the ANP(s) to allow them to function. This is also the case for less dissociative systems.

Not everyone feels the need to label the "roles" of their alters, and that's fine. Roles shouldn't be treated as the end all be all that determines everything about an alter either. However all alters still have a purpose and their own pattern of behaviour, and identifying why your alters exist is a key part of therapy and improving functioning. That's why people bother with this stuff in the first place, it is genuinely helpful information to know for your recovery.

Hope this helps clarify everything /nm

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"family function"...? i didn't know it could do that

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The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater "maturation index" than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

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It fucking astounds me how many people completely understand “being treated like a child is horrible” but never reach the very logical conclusion of “we should not treat children like that”

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"Autism traits that are actually advantages-" Hey guys did you know that the problem with eugenics and ableism is the act of assigning different degrees of worth and moral value to different people and abilities and not that we were simply attacking the "wrong" group?

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"The online safety of children should be the responsibility of parents not the government!" no it shouldn't be that either....