Greek Tragedy

It's acting on them that's problematic, both for other people's safety. But also for your own. You deserve to be safe, too.

There is a lot of ugly symptoms of Cluster-B and dissociative disorders that get shunted to the side.

It's uncomfortable to talk about and admit.

DID is not as rare as some people think it is. 

When psych 101 professors say things like, “DID is so rare most therapists will never see a case in their career,” they’re wrong. It’s not that rare. 

DID is also not as common as some people think it is. 

When people on tumblr, twitter, or discord say things like, “DID is as common as autism” or “DID is more common than schizophrenia,” they’re wrong too. It’s not that common. 

DID affects somewhere between between 0.01% and 2% of the population. 2% is the high estimate. 

“having did is horrible for a lot of reasons and shouldnt be romanticized” 

and 

“its ok to do things like picrews of all alters just to have fun”

 can and should coexist

This is with regards to a recent occurrence on TikTok with a specific system/person who I won't name because treating them like a specimen is beyond dehumanizing and genuinely sickening to my stomach.

I don't care if you think someone is faking DID, I don't care if there are "piles upon piles of evidence", it is not your place to fucking say. On one hand, they could be someone who's highly delusional, and doing all of this for attention -- that is still a cause for concern and we should be treating them with care, not with malice or disgust! And on the other hand, they could genuinely be a system and everything they experience is real -- not only is that not your call to make, but you would be a major asshole for ever saying otherwise and discounting their experiences and trauma!

The best fucking thing you can do, not only for this person, but also for those with DID as a whole? Is leave that person the fuck alone, get off your high horse, and actually try to learn about DID and what it is. Talk to people with systems. Empathize, because singlets will never, ever, know what it's like to have a dissociative disorder. Not in any capacity.

because she can speak, she’s shown this a few times like saying thanks to people or other single word lines. she also doesn’t run around like you’d expect a zombie to or march like the girls did in S1E1. yeah she does zombie things like biting things that look like food but she doesn’t actually attack people. even when she tries to “eat” people, its all in play (most recent episode as an example where she “eats” the hair buns but only nibbles despite being shown capable of downing plastic in an instant)

something else is in the most recent episode, she’s shown praying at her/her family’s grave. she doesn’t actually pray, she eats the food there as part of the joke, but technically that food is hers since its on her grave. she seems to understand this is her grave enough to go to the cemetery and specifically to her own tombstone, and doesn’t seem to eat any other food on any other graves

What a persecutor does not have to be: Aggressive, angry, rude, or violent. Some do act this way, but it is not inherent. Persecutor and rude alter are not synonymous. Keep in mind that while it is very possible for them to act this way, a lot of this can come from being pushed away, insulted, or not listened to, or it may be an unhealthy coping mechanism.