Another thing that comes to my mind, as someone with DID... I think there might also be an aspect of jealousy sometimes.
If DID has knocked you flat and consumed a great deal of your life, you might be tempted to think that folks without DID live happy lives made entirely of sunshine and rainbows. You might be angry that there are people experiencing anything close to what you experience, but without the suffering, and insisting they are legit.
Combine it with a social climate that gives abuse survivors huge leniency in how they treat others, and well, is it any surprise this happened?
On some level, there's rage that they're suffering, and other people aren't. I'm not going to pretend that's okay. I understand it, but it's not okay. (Especially since I do believe that having DID doesn't necessarily entail suffering forever.)
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If DID has knocked you flat and consumed a great deal of your life, you might be tempted to think that folks without DID live happy lives made entirely of sunshine and rainbows. You might be angry that there are people experiencing anything close to what you experience, but without the suffering, and insisting they are legit.
Combine it with a social climate that gives abuse survivors huge leniency in how they treat others, and well, is it any surprise this happened?
On some level, there's rage that they're suffering, and other people aren't. I'm not going to pretend that's okay. I understand it, but it's not okay. (Especially since I do believe that having DID doesn't necessarily entail suffering forever.)
--Rogan