That’s true. I was hoping to convey that the disorder comes from the dissociation aspect of it. We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age. So, we all have ‘multiple personalities’, but don’t consider them to be ‘separate’ because we can still communicate with them. Instead, we just consider them ‘aspects’ of a single personality, but it’s a gray area.
We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age.
That’s the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.
Just because someone’s brain is weird in this certain way doesn’t mean they’re disordered. Disorder implies there’s something wrong that should be fixed, but many people with conditions will disagree that there is anything in need of “fixing”.
I mean, when someone is able to manage a condition, it doesn’t mean that don’t have the condition.
That’s true. I was hoping to convey that the disorder comes from the dissociation aspect of it. We aren’t born with our personalities already intact, they develop and unify around the age of 5-6, and DID is a response to trauma from before that age. So, we all have ‘multiple personalities’, but don’t consider them to be ‘separate’ because we can still communicate with them. Instead, we just consider them ‘aspects’ of a single personality, but it’s a gray area.
That’s the current prominent theory, but testing it empirically would be disastrously unethical.
condition ≠ disorder
Just because someone’s brain is weird in this certain way doesn’t mean they’re disordered. Disorder implies there’s something wrong that should be fixed, but many people with conditions will disagree that there is anything in need of “fixing”.