we recently lost our only ever DID/system friend we could talk openly about plurality and dissociation with. we haven't even been able to talk openly about it on our blog, considering they had access to that, too.
we found out a different friend of ours has DID, but when we told them, they didn't know what OSDD was. they seem the type that got diagnosed before they even knew what DID was, from what i gather. it almost makes me jealous, even though i know it's not fair. i'm not, of course. i know it had to be just as terrifying. but it must have been nice, not to have to figure it all out yourself, constantly defend and question yourself, that's someone else, a professional, saw it, so you know it's true, in some ways.
really, i wanna talk to them about it. they never brought it up again, and neither did i. i don't even know how much they know about CDDs, or how they define themselves, etc. but maybe they feel the same way, like they wish they could talk to someone about it, too, or maybe they're unsure, feeling like they said too much since they had no idea what OSDD even was (and how it's basically the same, in a lot of ways, so it wasn't as big of a deal as they thought?).
in the end, i know we probably won't say anything. the opportunity will float us by. but it's nice to know we share the same secret.