Pure Love

helloo ! ive been wanting to ask if you have any specific tips or things to focus on while writing characters with DID ! im not a system myself but psychology in general has been a topic that ive always been interested in and want to depict it to the best of my ability + i love your art and wish you the best ^^

Good question!

Writing about DID/OSDD is incredibly difficult- even I a system probably couldn’t do it, but I can give you some advice regardless. Obviously saying “research” is expected, but finding good research on it is hard. As always I recommend as a starter for understanding the fundamentals of the disorder : “The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and Treatment of Chronic Traumatization” just look that up and I’m sure you can find it on the internet archive or docdriod. As a rule of thumb don’t trust system tiktok, tumblr, carrds, or any personal account to get the majority of your information from just because there’s an incredible amount of misinformation (of course there’s plenty others on there who probably know what they are talking about, but I’d always recommend using credible peer reviewed sources.)

With the research disclaimer thing out of the way here’s a few points:

-It’s a trauma based disorder, everything is structured around trauma. Not just a singular trauma but repeated emotional, physical, and typically sexual trauma that is experienced under the age of 10 (You don’t need all three, just a lot of systems experience a mix of trauma) To write DID/OSDD right you should be able to write child traumatization accurately and be comfortable with writing it.

-There is a vast amount of different experiences with DID/OSDD. There are varying levels of amnesia, alter presentations, system structures etc. not all systems use plural terms, have names for alters, or have much personality differentiation between alters. The experience of a Osdd1a system will be different to a DID system, so you’d probably want to look into the specifics of those differences and stick to one type of system.

-Try to avoid misconceptions and DID tropes in media. The most obvious one I can think of is “the evil alter” trope, there’s quite a lot of demonization of the disorder so you have to be critical when viewing media depicting it (fuck the split movie).

-unless it’s apart of a character arc avoid the uncritical idea that alters are just their source. it’s healthy for them to branch out and expand from their baseline purpose and identity.

As for things I’d like to see in DID/OSDD rep it’d be:

-representing extreme denial

-loss of time

-source separation would be cool

-fusion and dormancy being mentioned

A lot of media hyper focuses on Alters when that is only one aspect of system hood. I think I’d be cool to look at the other symptoms.

But overall, it would be a really hard task to write a system especially without being one. I’m not saying it’s impossible but it’s easy to fall into misrepresentation even if it’s well meaning (it’s easy to do that even if a person is a system, that’s why I’m too scared to write it) If you are going to do it, do a very thorough amount of research before you develop an idea of a character. I know I sound really upset at the idea, I’m not I do really like the idea of representation- but DID/OSDD is such a stigmatized disorder that you have to be so so so careful not to add onto the stigma. I do believe it’s possible to do it right though! I wish you luck and thank you for the compliment.

"Because putting the TQIAPN+ in LGB is why people dont like us"

"Because you Therian weirdos or gender neutral weirdos are why they dont like us"

"Because thats why–"

They dont like us anyway, and never will.

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE I WAS A KID. ILY STANLEY NOBODY COULD EVER MAKE ME HATE THIS OLD MAN.💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💞💞💞💞💞💜💜💜

Reblog for sample size and also tell me why in the tags. I want violence. I want discourse. I want bloodshed

The fact Agatha didn't even care Billy just tried to kill her. Oh the sense of preservation of this women is GONE she doesn't have any AT ALL.

Eurovision is allowing Israel to participate despite its ongoing genocide against Palestinians.

Boycott Eurovision.

Do not watch it. Do not support it.

Unfortunately sometimes i find someone with a good art, its innocent from all crimes, posts frequently, but shipp something different from the shipp I like, sorry, its not you its me, i cant find pleasure with this knowledge I have now

Enough of funny silly crazy man having a tragic sad backstory. I cant take it anymore.

(Its not enough, I can take, but im suffering.)

Here’s my small contribution to the Digital Circus fandom

Httyd is so wrong to me in many ways, like how much they changed Toothless behavior, or additing a girl dragon only to make his separation with Hiccup make more sense, or the villain being "The One" slayed all the night furies, or the fact they didn’t needed for the dragons to be gone, like, at all.

The dragons from the start were a metaphor for prejudice, how knowing the other allows you to live better with them and THAT takes time, takes patience, takes adaptation, this is shown not only in the first movie, but in the series too, so its very weird for them to throw it all away because "the world isn't ready for them"?

Hiccup already fought with SO MANY antagonists who had the ideas of hunting/ dominating dragons, he fought so many for the coexistence, only for the dragons to have to hide in the end? Like the world wasn't meant for both humans and dragons at all?

Hiccup would make the whole world understand if he needed, he would make the world for the dragons.

And I ain't talking abt "Oh no I wanted Toothless and Hiccup to still be together in the end", im talking abt how this doesn't make sense and feels like throwing things away for the sake of the easiest ending.

Herosona again but he probably will turn into a Oc, again...(I always do that, help.)

Israel has banned children’s insulin injectors from entering Gaza

Children can die within a matter of days without insulin. In even less time a lack of insulin will cause blindness, nerve damage, and kidney failure.