ask anything about DID

Discussion in 'Braaaaiiiinnnns...' started by chaoticArbiter, Mar 18, 2016.

  1. ray

    ray 43.5 flaming chicken nuggets in a trench coat

    eh, well, no better place to start than there, i guess? cedar would probably speak up if they minded, they are cofronting and all, and we're able to communicate pretty damn clearly, so i'm just going to assume it's fine for me to talk there.
     
  2. paintcat

    paintcat Let the voice of love take you higher

    Hi, Ray! Good to meet you, and welcome to the forum :)
     
  3. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    okay, welp, Ray's apparently done for the day, because he just....suddenly abandoned front, so....yeah!
     
  4. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    I found a joke on Tumblr
    "I don't have a nervous system, I am a nervous system"
    because I am a system
    and I have anxiety
    get it?
     
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  5. bunnies!

    bunnies! Actual Moe Bunny Girl, Holly

    #relatable #content
     
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  6. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

    Also, I find it kinda funny that two different people saw that post and immediately thought of you.
     
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  7. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    my influence grows with each passing day
    :P
    (I enjoyed that you both thought of me)
     
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  8. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    this-is-not-dissociative is taking mod applications I WANT TO APPLY BUT I'M NERVOUS
     
  9. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    I applied
    waits with bated breath
    please let them say yessssssssssssssss
     
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  10. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    awww
    they said no
    I'm too new to my diagnosis and don't know the community well enough, they decided
    ;~;
     
  11. Xitaqa

    Xitaqa Secretly awesome

    Took that DES test for Science, scored 22. Dislike the 1-10 scale bc I can't pretend to be that accurate, so I kinda ballparked every question that wasn't 0.
     
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  12. electroTelegram

    electroTelegram Well-Known Member

    i was reading on that blog and:

    could someone consider themselves a natural (like thinking their DID isn't caused by trauma) not because they've never been through trauma but because their DID means they dont have the memories of there being trauma -- because alter has those? and they can't access the alters thoughts/memories?
     
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  13. paintcat

    paintcat Let the voice of love take you higher

    That sounds like a thing that's likely to happen. On the other hand, it's surely only a matter of time between starting to communicate with one's alters and stumbling across the truth.
     
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  14. Lib

    Lib Well-Known Member

    The other thing I'd assume would be the whole 'well-that-can't-be-traumatic, it-wasn't-that-bad' sort of thing. (Or just not really having memories at all, like who has reliable memories from 6-9?)
     
  15. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    this can definitely happen, yes.

    this can also be a thing. but most people who've gone through a trauma as a kid seem to either have some kind of memory of it or just have a big blank space and memories around it. I have pretty reliable memories from 3-4, then nothing from 5-6, and then memories again from 7 onward. it is very possible for have reliable memories from being a kid, and having a giant blank space there in a DID person is usually indicative of trauma.
     
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  16. Lib

    Lib Well-Known Member

    huh. fascinating.
     
  17. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    yes! it's all very interesting, imo.
    and also, the thing about 'might believe they're a natural system simply because they don't remember trauma/another alter holds the trauma' is sort of why, while I side-eye the heck out of people who claim natural systems are a thing, I wouldn't challenge a natural system, or try and force them to admit the thing they think they are isn't real, or ridicule them.
     
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  18. Lib

    Lib Well-Known Member

    that makes sense, yeah!

    I get confused about memories because I don't really have memories of being a kid at all, and I tend to assume that that goes for other people too because otherwise that means it's probably linked to abuse and dissociative stuff and pretending totally makes things go away. Clarification is always good. (and yeah, I also find it super interesting, if it's not weird to say so? brains are weird and fascinating and glitchy.)
     
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  19. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    that's fair! I know quite a few people have memories of being a kid, and like I said, I have some as well, but it's also totally a thing to not remember that much of being a kid. (it's totally fine to say that! brains are weird and fascinating and glitchy. I love and hate them.)
     
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  20. chaoticArbiter

    chaoticArbiter an actual shiny eevee (destroyer of worlds)

    ...so a pendulum blog I follow got an ask where someone wanted to know if they were a system or not, and the pendulum said yes
    and now there's like five different people sending the blog asks about "how dare you you enabling enabler natural systems aren't real pendulums aren't correct you just helped a faking faker you gross monster self-dx isn't real or correct and faking a system hurts real people APOLOGIZE NOW"
    I'm just
    why do these things always turn into a giant shitstorm
     
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