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I mean this sincerely, this game is an insult to people who actually have Dissociative Identity Disorder.

I am not a conservative. I am also a transsexual with a deep familiarity of both actual DID sufferers and also the phenomenon of people attaching themselves to the label of DID sufferers due to a desire to have interesting afflictions and a misunderstanding of their non-DID related dissociative neurodivergences.

DID is a symptom of extreme, dramatic childhood trauma. There are extraordinarily few examples of people who have developed DID from adulthood experiences, and even fewer examples of people developing it from anything other than major sexual trauma experienced as a minor.

People who actually suffer from DID are not proud of it. It is a life-ruining disorder that only comes from deep pain. There exists currently people over-exaggerating a connection to the label of DID sufferer for a variety of reasons. I have a sympathetic approach to such people, there is often a reason they are falsely gravitating towards such a diagnosis, but I draw the line at insulting and fraudulent representations of the disorder.

 (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8134744/#S5)

(An example of this phenomena emerging ^)

Therian identities are likewise, simply put, nonsense. I am not writing a full essay as to the reasons why, and I don't really care if you are not interested in just taking my word for it. Sure. Whatever. Again, the desire to gravitate towards such an identity speaks to something within a person, and I hold sympathies towards their obscure and unidentified reasons, but to conflate this with DID is truly just insulting. 

Any of the people who found this art compelling will dig their heels in and lambast this review. That's ok. I look forwards to them maturing when their older. They will not be identifying with any of this by the time they are 80. Perhaps they should reflect on that.

Be dismissive of all of the above if one pleases, again, it's fair to dig ones' heels in. But separate to all of this, the writing is just not very good. If the artwork spoke to you that's wonderful*, but that does not detract from poorly crafted art. I've been moved by garbage art before, and I can still acknowledge that it isn't very good.

tl;dr This game, and I mean this with my whole heart, is objectively evil as to how it affects the world and unintentionally makes mockery of the pain that comes with DID. I understand this is not done intentionally. And yet, it remains the case.

Grow up, and additionally, write better.

I won't be reading any replies, I'm not interested in the stubborn nature of fools.

[EDIT: Huh, the author's original website that displayed her extensive range of 'alters' and gave detailed listings and explanations of them all is now deleted as she states "It doesn't reflect who I am anymore". Who would have thought. I'm truly shocked and astounded. Her new website makes no mention of DID and alters, even though it's a lifelong trauma condition. Interesting. Again, who would have thought.]

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Hi, so for context, I'm plural, most likely traumagenic (attempted to get a diagnosis and got what was essentially a college essay written by someone who knows they're failing the class and stopped caring; mental health care sucks rn esp with plurality who knew!)


And like. Do you have nothing better to do? Why do you feel the need to type out this many words of "I don't understand this and I refuse to make any effort to". Just like. Don't comment and move on. It's that easy.

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I know people who truly do suffer from DID and see first-hand the the impact it has on their life. I care about them so incredibly dearly.

They have also expressed to me a growing frustration with false representatives of DID online. It's causing a very *real* issue with with psychiatrists who specialise in DID assistance/research. I'm mad on my friends' behalf; I don't care about any random individual who has incorrectly associated themselves as being a DID sufferer ^^^ as I mention in the original post I understand why people do so and this is something I'm sympathetic of. A single person who is trying to understand and comprehend their psychological issues is faced with so many difficulties: lack of appropriate mental health care, unsupportive environments, social stigmas. This leads to people trying to diagnose themselves and, sometimes, getting it wrong. In this way, the game here is directly unhelpful to them. It leads people to incorrect conclusions of themselves by misrepresenting DID. This leads to clogs in the system for DID psych specialists (the waitlists are so long already!) and problems with research into DID healthcare.

It is, unintentionally but practically, doing some degree of harm to people, both DID sufferers and sufferers of other mental health issues + neurodivergent people. This is why I'm mad at this game, and not at random individuals. I care about my friends and the problems that impact them.

I really do hope you're able to one day (hopefully soon!) access the mental health care that you deserve. I've been really lucky to find an excellent team of professionals+loved ones, I and believe everybody deserves the same quality of care. All the best to you.

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and don't worry, normally if i see dumb shit online i move on and don't comment; not everything requires a comment but this did for me for the above sincere reasons. you're allowed to disagree but it's been a month and i don't really care to return to this comment so i'ma head off now byeeeee [NOTIFICATIONS: OFF]

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So the issue with the "fake DID" thing is that

Getting a proper diagnosis is a fucking nightmare. Plurality isn't taken seriously by the majority of mental health care providers and ones that do often fall into "become singlet to be Perfectly Mentally Healthy" territory (again, speaking from experience). A lot of people fall into the similar "if you don't have every symptom exactly and didn't get a professional diagnosis that can cost thousands of dollars you're clearly faking for attention." mentality you have, and I honestly hope you break out of it someday. Gatekeeping doesn't help anyone.

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Hey, can you shut up? I have DID and I'm proud of it. Dissociation sucks, but being a system has been a wonderful experience for us. Also they literally didn't even claim to have DID?? Just said they're plural.

They didn't "conflate therianthropy with DID" they mentioned DID once. ONCE.

"This game is objectively evil" someone doesn't know what 'objectively' means!

DID is not a lifelong condition, btw. You can fully heal from it.

In conclusion: you're a jerk.