it seriously pisses me off how salem treats DID like some fun little "teehee lots of funny guys living in my head" thing instead of a serious disorder born from unfathomable trauma. it pisses me off even more how he claims he developed it from twitter "bullying" him when he was 18, when DID is caused by repeated trauma to a person in CHILDHOOD (5-10 years old), when the personality is still developing and fractures to protect the host's psyche.
but of course salem doesn't have any of the bad parts of DID. he doesn't have greyouts, or lost time, and all parts know exactly what's going on all the time and have perfect memory between each other.
and obviously all the alters love salem the host unconditionally and they all work in perfect harmony together to coddle him and praise him for being so brave all the time. there's never any system infighting or disagreements ever because they all love him sooo much. no one besides salem and heather ever front, and if someone else hops in, its just to glaze salem for how great of a person he is and then disappear for another 8 months until he remembers them again.
if he had any of those problems, we would have heard about it because he can't keep himself from spilling every thought that crosses his mind onto the internet.
like this is DID 101 stuff. he just uses it as an excuse to escape blame and further paint himself as a victim, and it infuriates me to no end.
Yeah, I think the praise thing is particularly funny. His alters are his personal cheerleaders:
Punnya/Heather is the worst case of this. She speaks about Salem in this reverant tone, like he's some hero: