joe kessler

Come on...

I'm waiting...

See, I have no problem naming medical professionals who have either acknowledged the existence of plurality outside of dissociative disorders or at least acknowledged it as a possibility that would warrant further research. Eric Yarbrough, Colin Ross, Samuel Veissier, Michael Lifshitz, Richard Kluft, Ellert Nijenhuis.

These are just names off the top of my head.

So it shouldn't be hard for you to be able to cite a single doctor who has said that you need trauma and a dissociative disorder to be plural. One doctor somewhere who has definitively said that the experience of being multiple in one body is something that only exists in dissociative disorders.

But of course, you aren't going to be able to do that are you?

I've been doing this for 4 years now and in all this time, no sysmed has actually been able to provide a source to back up this position.

The truth is that the belief the plurality is exclusive to mental disorders and trauma isn't based in science. It is not backed up by any medical professionals. If it was, sysmeds would have been able to find them by now.

Even antivaxxers have disgraced doctors they can rely on for citations. But sysmeds don't even have that.

Its like yall ALL of that can be traumatizing to a young child 😭 you don't need some big evil Abuser Who Abuses that you can point to and say "yes this one event traumatized me" like you don't need one single big bad event that cracked your mind like an egg, all those things add up, all those things upset the nervous system of a small child, all of those things can and do cause cdds.

I'm still a proshipper tho

And there's no way in hell I'm becoming radnormal cuz do y'all realise you almost killed someone? A child, mind you.

I've also recently discovered I'm a P-DID system so yay that doesn't mean I have to force myself to like endogenic 'systems' anymore fuck off y'all btw

Which, you either stand against ableism or you stand for it.

Perhaps it’s on us that we only skimmed the into post when we first discovered the blog, however I still find it a bit… odd, that a blog for programmed systems aligns themselves with pro/endos.

This is, of course, applicable to all systems, but a place that allows ableists as well as disabled people is not a safe place for disabled people. The same as a place that allows both trans people and transphobes is not a safe place for trans people. And many, many more examples such as these.

I mean, you DON'T need trauma to be a system... I think there's an ample amount of professionals who have confirmed plurality existing outside of trauma... but becoming distressed and disoriented when you hear about grooming is a trauma response.

Has Shelix ever even claimed to not be traumatized?

I've never seen that, and it has specifically mentioned being a grooming victim. Maybe the grooming was when it was past the age DID develops, but this reads a lot like saying that trauma wasn't bad enough to cause a dissociative disorder.

I also think it's worth noting that even if the grooming did take place later, most groomers don't target well-adjusted healthy children in safe supportive environments with loving parents. Most of the time, they select victims who are already abused or neglected. People who feel hopeless and are desperate for an escape.

DID typically affects around 0.1% to 2% of people, though some studies suggest rates up to 3–5%. Including OSDD, estimates rise, ranging from 0.8% to 1.5% for DID, with an additional 0.2% to 8.3% for OSDD.

The Merck Manual puts DID prevalence in the U.S. general population at ~1–1.5%.

OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) is the most common dissociative disorder diagnosis, making up around 40% of cases within dissociative clinical populations.

DID/OSDD (0.5%–2%) is roughly on par with the prevalence of green or gray eyes globally, not common, but not as rare as heterochromia.

DID typically affects around 0.1% to 2% of people, though some studies suggest rates up to 3–5%. Including OSDD, estimates rise, ranging from 0.8% to 1.5% for DID, with an additional 0.2% to 8.3% for OSDD.

The Merck Manual puts DID prevalence in the U.S. general population at ~1–1.5%.

OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) is the most common dissociative disorder diagnosis, making up around 40% of cases within dissociative clinical populations.

DID/OSDD (0.5%–2%) is roughly on par with the prevalence of green or gray eyes globally, not common, but not as rare as heterochromia.

@sweatyjoekessler

DID typically affects around 0.1% to 2% of people, though some studies suggest rates up to 3–5%. Including OSDD, estimates rise, ranging from 0.8% to 1.5% for DID, with an additional 0.2% to 8.3% for OSDD.

The Merck Manual puts DID prevalence in the U.S. general population at ~1–1.5%.

OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) is the most common dissociative disorder diagnosis, making up around 40% of cases within dissociative clinical populations.

DID/OSDD (0.5%–2%) is roughly on par with the prevalence of green or gray eyes globally, not common, but not as rare as heterochromia.

@sweatyjoekessler