hi im appearing with a serious thread, content warning and trigger warnings for the thread
-discussion of DID
-trauma
-CSA
-CPTSD
-PTSD
-Depression
Some people clearly do not understand DID, and as a host of a system, I'd like to clear things up...

So, DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder, is a dissociative disorder formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder, which was categorized as a personality disorder. Medicine and knowledge progressed and they realized MPD didn't fit, and so MPD is no longer a thing.

DID and MPD are the same thing, but MPD is outdated, do not use that term.
The first known case of DID was in 1584.
The DSM-II introduced DID in 1968 as hysterical neurosis, dissociative type.

DID can only be formed by trauma happening to a child between the ages 4 and 9 (12 being the oldest for people with OSDD-1, OSDD-1a and OSDD-1b) I do not have OSDD of any kind, and it's not my place to speak on it.

DID can ONLY be formed by trauma, DID is NOT roleplay. Alters can be any age or even ageless. Alters can be objects, people, animals, creatures, ghosts or anything. When a person has DID their brain has basically split into different forms of themself.

Alters, either way, are their own people, and like to be treated as such. Alters have their own names, genders, sexualities, appearances and personalities. Some alters even have birthdays, and memories of different lives than what is known as 'real'.

Alters can also be related to one another, and there are documented cases of alters being pregnant, getting married, having families and such. (Alters sometimes date other alters, other systems or singlets) ((Singlets is people who are NOT systems))

My therapist and I determined I developed DID at 4, when intense trauma within my family began. (Neglect, CSA, bullying, witnessing abuse, being abused, and many more things) I, as of now, have over 150 alters within my system, and unlike a lot of systems, I don't use we often.

I, personally, refer to myself, because I, am not the system. The system is all of the alters, it's the group of alters defined in one term, (not everyone uses the term system). I, Quinn, am NOT the original host. The original host integrated and I split from the integration.

I am my own person, as is every single other alter in the system. We all have names and personalities of our own. We are NOT roleplay. We are not invalid. We are not fake. DID is a very real disorder, and it affects more than 1% of the entire population.

Please, educate yourselves thoroughly and if you have questions for me, or about the system DM or reply to this thread. You can ask about DID, but I don't know everything and cannot speak on anyone elses' experience. Thank you for reading, I hope it helps.