I have this theory I should develop more sometime, but I have a feeling that in some cases (such as ours), DID isn't actually as "covert" as people think, it's just that most people have no idea what to look for (just like with invisible disabilities).
People will see you change accents, personalities, preferences, in the span of five minutes and go "oh yeah they're just inconsistent/quirky." You don't remember any of the shit that's ever happened to you and people are like "idk get a planner and just try harder to remember, it's probably selective memory." You zone out and don't feel like you're in your own body and people will just be like "that's weird. Not my problem, though, so just deal with it."
DID may be hard to spot in some cases, but tbh I feel like a lot of it is more so society just not knowing what having it is actually like and what DID can look like from their POV. Did we make an effort to mask our symptoms growing up? Yeah, sure we did. But we didn't sit down and go "these behaviors are strange to the general population and I need to stop doing them," we were just trying to mimic those around us like pretty much everyone does. Not our fault they can't recognize a switch we're half-assing our coverup of.
