Clover

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
creekfiend
creekfiend

I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!

eepy-possum-420
eepy-possum-420

The insistence on accepting "non disordered plurality" as an experience adjacent to alters in DID and OSDD (switching and executive control shifts, autonomy, internal communication, sometimes even amnesia) is genuinely dangerous to people with CDDs.
It's extremely common for people with dissociative disorders not to not remember trauma or not view their experiences as traumatic. Like, you ever meet someone who genuinely thinks something horrific that happened to them wasn't traumatic? "Grow a pair, my dad left me out in the cold all night if I misbehaved too!" That denial and emotional distance is common even outside of CDDs.

When you tell someone "your symptoms are not pathology, they are an identity that should not even be medicalized, you don't need to have trauma to have CDD-adjacent experiences. It's not a symptom of trauma, some people are just born like this" you are discouraging them from getting potentially life saving medical treatment and allowing them to believe that there is no risk of destabilization. If it's not trauma, they can safely reach out to their alters and try to catalogue them, they can misrepresent it online as "I'm just built different".

I think a lot of people who claim to be endogenic either have DID and don't remember their trauma or are conflating conscious "headmates" with imaginary companions, self dialogue, ego-states, maladaptive daydreaming, or fantasy play.