The United Self-States of an American Idiot

Sysblr when it’s time to straw man arguments on either side and tell each other to kill themselves and spending time accusing the other side of being evil disgusting harassers: YES! THIS is what we should spend our time on!

I think the idea of there has to be one big split at the beginning is why theres this misunderstanding that cdds have to come from one specific type of trauma. It just has to be enough that your specific child brain cannot handle it. And once that has happened, the brain can resort to that splitting and dissociating mechanism at basically any stressor that the system can’t handle.

A majority of studies (at least according to the studies I found on the matter) describe splits as an event following trauma, but the agreed opinion on the matter is that splits are caused by severe enough dissociation! So, while it's true that many systems will not dissociate to the extent of fully splitting without something severe enough to trigger a trauma response, it's entirely possible for alters to split without a clear event tied to them!

It's not a bad thing. I appreciate what she does along with SAS. They both made information more accessible for me when I was younger and learning. But I would always ALWAYS suggest looking at primary sources. I kinda treat this website like wikipedia. It's not *terrible* to use it, but you'd benefit greatly from clicking all the citations and reading for yourself where she is getting this information from.

I think the idea of there has to be one big split at the beginning is why theres this misunderstanding that cdds have to come from one specific type of trauma. It just has to be enough that your specific child brain cannot handle it. And once that has happened, the brain can resort to that splitting and dissociating mechanism at basically any stressor that the system can’t handle.

A majority of studies (at least according to the studies I found on the matter) describe splits as an event following trauma, but the agreed opinion on the matter is that splits are caused by severe enough dissociation! So, while it's true that many systems will not dissociate to the extent of fully splitting without something severe enough to trigger a trauma response, it's entirely possible for alters to split without a clear event tied to them!

(this never happened to me but I saw some people saying that lmao)

And to equate fiction and kink between consenting adults to actual real child and animal abuse is frankly disgusting and just goes to show how much people totally 100% care about victims. And the assumption that 'child predators' and 'pedophiles' are a circle (something that was btw constructed by homophobes and transphobes because they believe that all gay and trans people are pedophiles and that all pedophiles must also be child predators and vice versa) and not a venn diagram with the smallest little overlap in the world doesn't help anyone. Especially because it positions abuse (of which having sex with a child is always abuse and always rape) as something that's done out of love and attraction and not something that's done because child predators want to feel powerful and in control of something and the easiest target to feel that power and control is by abusing kids.

I can't believe I even have to say this but believing that an entire group of disordered individuals are all 'potentially dangerous' (and really, I've looked through the radnormal tags and you don't see people with paraphiliac disorders as 'potentially dangerous' you see them as inherently dangerous who should all self isolate or even better, all kill themselves) is quite literally fascist rhetoric.

"why are you so weird?" Idk, maybe because being completely isolated while growing up has destroyed my brain and now I'm nothing more than a human-mimicking creature that bases all of my actions on what I think is normal human behavior rather than just doing things naturally