CW: clinical language

So, this is cool, we found it from from https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwLR4YCzZp8DSkxpWnFGd1MzUjA/edit

Which itself we found from https://sarahkreece.com/2013/09/24/countering-did-myths-were-not-all-the-same/

So yeah!!! Potentially inclusive DID website for anyone who wants to visit

Transcription below since it won't fit.

#PluralGang

Transcript:

"What causes multiplicity?"

"People often have their own beliefs about their experiences of multiplicity. Discovering another self in your mind or body is very confronting and distressing for some, while others have always been this way and find it normal, or have

experiences that are comforting rather than frightening. Some people understand parts as different parts of themselves, or different people sharing a body, others as spirit guide or ancestors, others as ghosts, demons, fae, Soulbonds and so on. Sometimes people are afraid or

unaware of their multiplicity and it is people around them who notice changes when parts switch.

Within a clinical framework, DID or DDNOS is usually considered to be a creative survival strategy used by traumatized children. This can be abuse, or other kinds of trauma such as

undergoing painful medical procedures. (However, most people who experience trauma as children do not develop DID.) There are two main ideas about how parts form in a person with DID. One is the smashed vase theory, which conceives of each part as a piece that together make up

the whole person with DID. The other is the alternate selves theory, where each part is seen as one possible version of who the person with DID could be. Sometimes parts seem to be organized around certain processes such as splitting emotions between them, states, or particular

skills or memories."

//end transcript

As for why we cw'ed the clinical language, it's because some people like that and some people don't, so we thought it might be easier to just put it there now instead of later.

Of note:

• It's an older website/article, OF COURSE it's going to use DDNOS. Considering we've met at least one system who still has an MPD diagnosis, we really don't think this matters as much as you'd believe in this context.

• Again, it's a DID-centric website.

• We're like 98% certain this is http://di.org.au  but given the different address it may not be?? This is confusing. Anyways, on the off chance it IS a different website, we're going to bookmark it.

Probably going to RT later but for now, have a nice thread about another way of viewing this particular experience: https://twitter.com/stimmyskye/status/1388505995765325829?s=19