i feel like seemingly popular conceptions of complex dissociative disorders and systemhood are not exactly helpful. in that systems are conceptualized as never has had a CDD, or they do and will experience enough dysfunctional symptoms to have them be disordered forever.
this conceptualization can make it rather easy for some to fakeclaim systems and other such people who have had a complex dissociative disorder in the past, but have recovered and are not disordered now.
people do say that if one has had such a disorder, then they will always have similarities with those who are currently disordered. but i feel like that can underplay how much being disordered and being non-disordered can affect how you socialize and who you socialize with. when you are non-disordered, you don't exactly bond over symptoms and issues that you don't have any more that don't impact your life. and systemhood is not the same as having those disordered symptoms, because functional multiplicity is an accepted recovery/resolution/remission of being disordered.
so my solution/suggestion: i think we should encourage each other to remember to conceptualize CDDs as not an all or nothing disorder in terms of how long someone may have it. yes it can take a long time to recover, but there are plenty of people who have lived to see that reality. and so perhaps a change in perception can make our communities kinder.