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I feel like there's this thing in DID academic research, where like, it's just assumed that DID happens because of trauma.

Like, it's just HAPPENS. Their explanation is mechanical.

"One person split into many."

"The person failed to integrate because of trauma."

Etc.

There's a massive problem with academic research on plurality. Specifically traumagenic systems. It's all framed from an inherently mechanical, cold, and negative perspective.

It's only ever a "coping mechanism/survival mechanism" that the brain just DOES. #PluralGang

What if like...traumagenic origins are actually an act of self love, in the face of parents and relatives who neglect, who abuse.

The idea that a system is a support system. Not just an "organism system" of "homeostasis" alters or some crap.

The paradigm shift is absolutely massive. It turns the idea that headmates/alters are just "vying and struggling for control" into, "well, they're just trying to help, but are sometimes very misguided."

It's a humanizing perspective. To view DID as a dysfunctional support system. Instead of as a "traumatic thing that happened when I was young, and now I'm broken."

I think it's something other systems should consider. Not that you HAVE to. But just something to think about.

For us. We don't know why we were formed. We went through a lot of emotional neglect and abuse. It was horrific. But we existed prior to all that.

We had different preferences, behaviours, and favourite things. This wasn't just "childhood self states."

Even when we didn't know we were plural. When we switched all the time. When suddenly we'd be a different person, and I'd feel like I was faking it. All those times...

We were a support system, all helping each other. Without knowing each other.