DID is a real, trauma-based disorder

DID is linked to overwhelming or stressful experiences, most likely starting at an early age.

What "DID is trauma-based" does NOT mean:

You have to be diagnosed with PTSD in order to have DID.

DID must fully manifest immediately after the trauma.

DID must fully manifest in childhood.

People with DID have to identify as a traumagenic system.

People with DID can easily remember or identify what caused their DID.

You must dig up memories in order to say you have DID.

You have to call what you went through "trauma."

All alters/headmates/parts experience PTSD symptoms.

Only abuse counts.

[Insert anything about plurality here].

Edit: here’s the screenshots of them agreeing that endogenic plurality exists, and that people should stop assuming that plural = DID

Many traumagenic systems believe they are endogenic (not in a 'they can't be endo' way, but in the way that i've seen many systems discover trauma years later)- saying that only traumagenic systems can have DID would make them believe they cannot possibly be disordered, or try to dig up trauma "just in case" while they are not ready to unpack it yet.

Alongside this, see "the vast majority" in that second screenshot- disordered endogenic systems do exist. Pretending they do not only hurts people.

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Anyways, our system is pro-endo. We're not a sysmed for spreading research/resources on how both DID and endogenic plurality are real.

Plurality is real, not a disorder, and it doesn't have any single cause. DID is real, a disorder, and connected to trauma. These are both widely accepted statements and just because you can't accept that doesn't make us a sysmed. Who the hell are we medicalizing here? If you read the carrd, you'd see that we agree with multiple things you're saying.