I think a lot of the root of it is, despite what people would say, many of the DID types don't BELIEVE other people about what they're experiencing.
Like I see people all the time say "GOSH guys we're not telling you something's not going on, just that if you don't have DID/OSDD (doesn't understand either OSDD diagnosis) you've got something else happening and shouldn't use system terminology, how is that SO HARD, just make your own terms!"
So they say. But even leaving aside that those terms that already exist aren't exclusive, those same people ALSO say that the ONLY way to be several people in a head is severe trauma between ages of blah blah blah (doesn't understand what the upper age limit was supposed to be either) and unless you're diagnosed you're just tricking yourself into thinking it's multiple people. Maybe you have BPD and are just tricked into thinking your moods are different people? But obviously you don't have full people like us! Believing you do is hurting YOU because you're not getting the help you need for whatever you really have, I'm attacking and shaming you for YOUR sake sweetie. :):):)
I think if they truly believed it was similar experiences, more people would concede that it makes sense to overlap terms somewhat, with some other terms just naturally applying only to certain experiences (say, a system of all people visiting from alternate dimensions is unlikely to refer to splitting). But the truth is, a lot of these people are convinced that the medical establishment knows literally everything, and unless they've ALREADY acknowledged it, it's fake. Are you saying you know more than the EXPERTS?
Psychological diagnoses are hard, because you can't just crack open a brain and look at it and say "well that color looks like multiplesystemitis, for sure". All anyone HAS is self-descriptions and the opinions of therapists watching people talk. That's why things like the DSM keep putting out new versions, because the experts DON'T know everything and keep refining how they think it works! Brains and people are so complicated, I hate the idea that if it hasn't already been described in an Official Text, that means peoples' self-perceptions aren't real, either. It feels like if people were claiming years back that trans men didn't exist because only trans women were described in the DSM, and if you're not attracted to yourself you're probably not a trans woman, either. Maybe just a crossdressing fetishist sweetie? You're hurting yourself by focusing your attention on the wrong thing. You just go be a kinky man and stop pretending to be a woman sweetie. :):):)
...in fact I like that metaphor because, just as autogynephillia didn't actually concede that trans women were women, just why men would like pretending they were... nothing in all this medical stuff supports that DID alters are full people, either. Most of these people are ignoring the medical establishment themselves! But when it fits their political narrative, obsession with (their misinterpretation of) DSM criteria all the way.
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I think a lot of the root of it is, despite what people would say, many of the DID types don't BELIEVE other people about what they're experiencing.
Like I see people all the time say "GOSH guys we're not telling you something's not going on, just that if you don't have DID/OSDD (doesn't understand either OSDD diagnosis) you've got something else happening and shouldn't use system terminology, how is that SO HARD, just make your own terms!"
So they say. But even leaving aside that those terms that already exist aren't exclusive, those same people ALSO say that the ONLY way to be several people in a head is severe trauma between ages of blah blah blah (doesn't understand what the upper age limit was supposed to be either) and unless you're diagnosed you're just tricking yourself into thinking it's multiple people. Maybe you have BPD and are just tricked into thinking your moods are different people? But obviously you don't have full people like us! Believing you do is hurting YOU because you're not getting the help you need for whatever you really have, I'm attacking and shaming you for YOUR sake sweetie. :):):)
I think if they truly believed it was similar experiences, more people would concede that it makes sense to overlap terms somewhat, with some other terms just naturally applying only to certain experiences (say, a system of all people visiting from alternate dimensions is unlikely to refer to splitting). But the truth is, a lot of these people are convinced that the medical establishment knows literally everything, and unless they've ALREADY acknowledged it, it's fake. Are you saying you know more than the EXPERTS?
Psychological diagnoses are hard, because you can't just crack open a brain and look at it and say "well that color looks like multiplesystemitis, for sure". All anyone HAS is self-descriptions and the opinions of therapists watching people talk. That's why things like the DSM keep putting out new versions, because the experts DON'T know everything and keep refining how they think it works! Brains and people are so complicated, I hate the idea that if it hasn't already been described in an Official Text, that means peoples' self-perceptions aren't real, either. It feels like if people were claiming years back that trans men didn't exist because only trans women were described in the DSM, and if you're not attracted to yourself you're probably not a trans woman, either. Maybe just a crossdressing fetishist sweetie? You're hurting yourself by focusing your attention on the wrong thing. You just go be a kinky man and stop pretending to be a woman sweetie. :):):)
...in fact I like that metaphor because, just as autogynephillia didn't actually concede that trans women were women, just why men would like pretending they were... nothing in all this medical stuff supports that DID alters are full people, either. Most of these people are ignoring the medical establishment themselves! But when it fits their political narrative, obsession with (their misinterpretation of) DSM criteria all the way.