#by lilac

Actually maybe saying separate spaces isn't the right term. I think what I meant was focused spaces. And less spaces but I mean the communities at large. I wish the CDD communities focused more on what it's like to have a CDD and our experiences with that, without necessarily focusing on the existence of people who may or may not experience plurality outside of a CDD. Maybe this same community could be open to talking to people who don't necessarily fit the diagnostic criteria for a CDD but still find their resources helpful in some way. Maybe there's still talk and discussion about experiencing plurality in these spaces, but from the lens of having DID.

Sickcourse: I hate the terms endogenic and traumagenic and I hate -genic terms because ultimately from what I've seen, these terms arose due to people trying to argue over whether someone can be plural without trauma or whether plurality can only happen due to trauma and thus inherently ties plurality with CDDs, and creates this false dichotomy between traumagenic and endogenic in particular. I think we should really strive to move away from categorizing plural folks with -genic terms in order to separate out plurality and dissociative disorders because they are two different things. Plurality is an identity and an experience. CDDs are a psychological disorder. These two things are neither mutually exclusive nor are they inherently a part of each other. You can be plural without a diagnosed dissociative disorder. You can have DID without being plural. You can have P-DID and call yourself plural. I just really think plural spaces and DID spaces would each benefit from detangling themselves from each other while acknowledging they're not necessarily the same thing.