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but with every round of price hikes it's the same advice: turn the thermostat down, make your showers quicker, wear warmer clothes. just learn to accept lower living standards. many of us, disabled or not, already have to regularly choose between eating and heating, so when another imperialist war pushes energy prices up again, what are disabled people to do? unfortunately, for many the answer is to accept being more disabled and more suffering

for Europe, the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian civil war acted as a catalyst to reorganize Europe's energy supplies around US economic interests. the continent went from getting cheap and reliable pipeline gas from Russia to importing unreliable and more expensive LNG from the world market, and in large part from the US. while the West engaged in a proxy war against Russia, prices soared for European workers and businesses, and the US profited. now another imperialist war has pushed global prices up again, and once again the cost is being socialized onto the working and marginalized lower stratas of every society worldwide, while energy corporations profit. and once again, disabled people bear the sharpest levels of suffering outside of the warzone. once again, many will have to turn off or ration devices that help them move about, eat, or breathe comfortably

sometimes people ask communists: "what about the disabled people who will be harmed by a revolution?" nobody is going to leave those people without support. and now it's time to turn this question around. what about the disabled people who suffer endlessly, become isolated, or die as we're forced to accept the ever lowering living standards that will push even able bodied people past their breaking point and spark the revolution?

This very much just sounds like integration. Having amnesia reduce with therapy is completely expected, the entire point of treatment for a dissociative disorder is to reduce dissociation. Specifically, a reduction in inter-identity amnesia with therapy is very expected, as DID specified treatment is designed to lessen the dissociative barriers between parts at all levels of treatment.

Inter-identity amnesia, as per the contemporary research, appears to have more to do with avoidance as opposed to literal memory loss. Under this understanding, alters have difficulty recalling other alters' experiences due to aversion towards those parts and the trauma they hold (i.e. the fear of dissociative parts and the fear of traumatic memory as discussed in the theory of structural dissociation). DID treatment involves lessening that avoidance to foster integration, which in turn lessens the experiences of amnesia by causing parts to dissociate less from each other's experiences.

On inter-identity amnesia specifically, there's these three:

Inter-identity amnesia in dissociative identity disorder resolved: A behavioural and neurobiological study 

Memory transfer for emotionally valenced words between identities in dissociative identity disorder (not open access, but you can see parts of it)

Inter-identity amnesia and memory transfer in dissociative identity disorder: A systematic review with a meta-analysis

In regards to DID treatment lessening dissociation and amnesia, it's hard to find specific studies that investigate it outright, since it's kind of just the point of treatment. But you could point to more generalized sources such as these:

DID Adult Treatment Guidelines, Third Revision

The Haunted Self (the theory of structural dissociation of the personality)

Coping With Trauma Related Dissociation: Skills Training For Patients and Their Therapists

Not knowing who's fronting, not knowing how many alters you have, not knowing when you switch, not knowing alters' names or why they formed, alters not having names, having no internal world or a very vague one, having no internal communication, struggling with external communication, experiencing alters as different overlapping states of self instead of separate people, hell even just experiencing amnesia.

These are all extremely common symptoms of DID/OSDD, especially when you're untreated or early in treatment. And yet they're all common reasons for why people feel like they don't belong in this community, because the reality of this disorder somehow doesn't conform to the online expectation.

This is kind of a complex question. The fact that endogenics do not exist comes from the sum of all the research into how alternate identity states develop and function, so in order to get the full picture you need to do a lot of reading in a lot of different areas. There also isn't really going to be a study that overtly says "endogenic systems do not exist", because "endogenic systems" are not even close to a scientifically recognized topic because the base idea is already completely disproven by the existing research.

Your best starting point for this is going to be the studies into the etiology of DID that disprove the sociocognitive and fantasy based models of DID (which operate on remarkably similar logic to "endogenic" ideology), and also the neuroscience of DID that proves that alters and switching are inseparable from PTSD on a neurological level.

Also, before we start, just so we're perfectly clear: dissociative identity disorder is the medical name for the presence of alters. Any credible research into alters and systemhood is going to use the term "DID" or "CDD" because those are the official names for this phenomenon. They're not studying the label, they're studying systemhood. If they weren't, DID research wouldn't apply to OSDD-1 or P-DID either, but it obviously does. Therefore, the argument of "that study doesn't count because it's about DID, not endos!" isn't actually valid.

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ribbons for Autism were a huge thing when I was growing up so I feel kinda nostalgic for them :3

Special interests within autism can cause clinically significant impairments in one's life.

Special interests can borderline obsession and addiction and compulsion. They can even run inline with addiction, obsession, and compulsion.

Special interests aren't always knowing everything about it, researching it, and infodumping, or engaging in it in multiple ways.

Sometimes autistics don't know much about them, some will not research them, some autistics won't infodump about them. Some autistics only every engage in their interest in a very restricted and fixated way, a very limited way.

I honestly think some autistics get special interests and hobbies mixed up. You are allowed to have hobbies you are very passionate about, love to talk about, and have a vast knowledge on them. There are many allistics in this world who have hobbies just like that and with such an intensity.