Yeah, if it wasn't clear, I wasn't intending to say that stuff was unprecedented or doesn't happen sometimes either, I was just parroting the reaction to it that I was seeing at the time. I think the fusion trend was just kids reinventing the wheel like you're saying and using a concept they were familiar with to describe stuff that's happened before and will happen again haha.
And yep, definitely have seen the whole idea that unless you've got DID-- professionally diagnosed even, suspected DID doesn't count-- you're harming the REAL suffering people by intruding, taking up their resources, appropriating their communities, STAY OUT. I saw that most from the DID/traumagenic/etc communities themselves rather than the other side (insomuch as there are "sides" to this at all of course); demands to keep out because you roleplayers are causing SERIOUS HARM to an oppressed mental illness rather than people autonomously deciding that DID stuff is irrelevant to them.
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Date: 2019-02-03 05:38 am (UTC)Yeah, if it wasn't clear, I wasn't intending to say that stuff was unprecedented or doesn't happen sometimes either, I was just parroting the reaction to it that I was seeing at the time. I think the fusion trend was just kids reinventing the wheel like you're saying and using a concept they were familiar with to describe stuff that's happened before and will happen again haha.
And yep, definitely have seen the whole idea that unless you've got DID-- professionally diagnosed even, suspected DID doesn't count-- you're harming the REAL suffering people by intruding, taking up their resources, appropriating their communities, STAY OUT. I saw that most from the DID/traumagenic/etc communities themselves rather than the other side (insomuch as there are "sides" to this at all of course); demands to keep out because you roleplayers are causing SERIOUS HARM to an oppressed mental illness rather than people autonomously deciding that DID stuff is irrelevant to them.