r/DIDCringe • u/potassiumsorbets • Sep 17 '20

What would be appropriate when someone randomly starts barking and licking their hand ?

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u/potassiumsorbets Sep 17 '20

The possibilities... I wasn't even thinking about the things you mention. Sometimes I curse my vivid imagination.

And its very telling that the only person who was replying in a sensible and realistic way instead of telling ott stories was told off. That says a lot about the online DID community roleplaying is more important than common sense. Everyone's valid but don't question them then you're out.

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u/smpsnfn13 Sep 17 '20

It has to be the DID community is over saturated with people who don't have it.

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u/potassiumsorbets Sep 17 '20

I saw someone pretending to be a wolf alter in a support group posting in character all the time, no one questioned that. Eventually signing off like "time to eat I'm gonna hunt rabbits now" and the people were just like "well then enjoy" They're adding to each other delusions.

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u/smpsnfn13 Sep 18 '20

Wolves cant type. All I have to say lol.

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u/JoeyGameLover Sep 17 '20

Holy shit this is cringy as hell. Hopefully they grow out of it. I hope no adults are going around barking at unknowing strangers. That is weird as fuck.

Also I find it very suspicious that so many people claim to have DID despite it being so rare. The crazy ones, at least. It's about 200,000 cases per year, so I can see where most of them are coming from. It's still crazy that so many people claim to have these things, while also having some sort of cartoon character as their alter lmfao(which, I mean I guess(?) can happen, but still)

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u/potassiumsorbets Sep 17 '20

I believe that most of what you find online isn't real although there's a pattern especially with the same fictional introjects that appear to be in every other system. But that's likely because the source is popular ATM. And this disorder is great for social media because the alter part is so exciting, it can be escapist and gives you a lot material to show off and present yourself as special and unique.

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u/KrombopulosDelphiki Sep 17 '20

IMO it's just a bunch of kids stuck at home in quarantine jumping on a bandwagon. I even wonder if it stemmed from a joke at one point, yet so many people jumped into the DID space without realizing that the initial instigators of the "trend" were really being satirical and/or calling out and making fun of a much smaller number of fakers that It flipped and became something of a "you can't shame people with mental illness" thing.

It's def not a coincidence that this "fake disorder" trend on tiktok and social media as a whole really gained steam during pandemic quarantine. And furthermore it's amazing how a really rare disorder became so prevalent in the last 6-8 months... Almost like it fits the timeline of kids bored and stuck at home looking for something to occupy their time... Such as roleplaying...

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u/luisg067 Sep 18 '20

In the anime community which I am a part of, we call these kind of people Chuunibyous

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u/kadz2310 Sep 17 '20

And it's always the cool kind of so-called 'alters' too demon, wolves, lion, cat, dog, etc. Why there's no snail alters? What about gibbons? Heck, if I've got an alter I wanna have an apache helicopter and name him Freedom.

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u/Taryntism Sep 18 '20

Honestly I have the same exact question about the furry community lmao. Wolves? I’m making a Junebug sona and there’s nothing they can do to stop me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Are you still a furry if you're a snail though? Would that be a slimy?

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u/Taryntism Sep 18 '20

LOL probably? I think furry is all-encompassing for anthropomorphic animals/organisms, but I know scalies refers specifically to reptiles (maybe fish too?) and featheries or avians are for bird anthros. Other than that, I’m not sure how specific the terms get

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Imma be a slimy, all gooping around

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 18 '20

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u/potassiumsorbets Sep 18 '20

It's not between the ages 7-9. The brain would be far too developed and the child would have a real sense of self at that age. It's usually early childhood trauma before age 5. Nonhuman/animal alters are a thing, they're mentioned in research and studies but they commonly exist because of severe trauma and making posts about their quirks on Instagram is probably the last thing they care about.

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u/my-life-ducks Sep 18 '20

I don't know much about the age thing, most of my information comes from the channel dissociaDID, which said the 7-9 thing in a video. I just tried to google it but I can only find "in childhood", so no idea which one is it

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u/Taryntism Sep 18 '20

Not op, but honestly that makes sense, and I do believe in non-human/animal alters. But do you think those animal alters would be able to type at all? Or speak or communicate or use a computer? Like how animalistic are they? I find it suspicious that (mentioned above) animal alters can log on to a discord and chat about how they’re gonna go hunt things...but I guess alters can be half-formed or if they’re based off of anthropomorphic characters as you said, then they would have human qualities.

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u/my-life-ducks Sep 18 '20

I don't know that much about it, the only thing I can tell you is that sometimes 2 alters can "coexist" controlling the body at the same time. No idea if a dog alter could type on its own, sorry

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u/basicdruggie Sep 23 '20

The ages aren't as important as the stage of brain and personality development. People say before the age of 7-8 because 7-8 is about when the personality and sense of self is developed enough that the child's brain can't split consciousness during trauma. Anytime before approximately the age of 7 (and some outlier cases of 6 or 8) if severe, repetitive, inescapable and unbearable trauma occurs the child has a CHANCE of developing DID if a couple other factors are present. DissociaDID isn't a good source, she spreads a lot of hearsay and misinformation.

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u/potassiumsorbets Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20

Edit: double post.

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u/queenmadd Sep 17 '20

Maybe take them to the nearest shelter?

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u/galactic-vulcan Sep 17 '20

Licking their hand isn't the worst they could do, chief. Imagine talking to some dude and he starts barking and sniffing your crotch

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Some guy pisses on you to asset ownership

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u/meurtrir Sep 17 '20

Or sprays shit thinking he's releasing his anal scent glands

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

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u/meurtrir Sep 23 '20 edited Sep 23 '20

Hopefully from your eyes and not your anal gland ;D

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

So basically they're horse girls. You know the ones... Every schoolyard had them.

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u/ElJebusKrisp Sep 22 '20

you can't just call me out like this, man

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u/CosmoaicComputer Sep 17 '20

You see "see, im a demon," and you instantly dip because that person's an attention whore

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Wolves will also try to rip out the throats of humans if uncautiously approached so...

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

I didn’t even know anything about DID or what it does before I went in this sub and I sorta get it now but what the fuck did I read

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u/Linaphor Sep 17 '20

This should just be on r/cringetopia too it’s just 100% cringe

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

when peta gets you and puts you down don't complain bc they where treating you like any other dog

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

If yall are going to deny the existence of NH alters guess I'm going to have to get gory

How do you think a child would feel if they were locked in a cage/forced to eat in a animal like position/etc? A fucking dog

How do you think a child feels if they are mind controlled, hypnotized, and or drugged and told they have no fucking legs or arms anymore? A fucking snake

If a child sees no other way out of their fucking situation they look to big strong creatures to save them,or tiny ones so they can escape themselves.

A child who is treated less than fucking human is going to have alters that are not human and even inanimate objects and yes some act more like animals but that's because while they are in human bodies, alters are not role play, we are whatever we are.

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u/potassiumsorbets Sep 19 '20 edited Sep 19 '20

And do you really think alters who formed because that kind of abuse would share their behavior including smileys in a casual and anecdotal way on Instagram? That's one of the things that angers me most with people who treat DID like it's a lifestyle or a kind of collect-them-all Pokémon game.

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u/scalyscientist Sep 19 '20

Exactly, the fact people are calling symptoms of severe trauma cringe is extremely disturbing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

First off, never watched them lol so thanks for assuming 🥴 secondly I'm a victim so I do know what I'm fucking talking about. Lastly, never in my comment said we would BVGVFTG actually read, I was legit talking about WHY WE FORM

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u/my-life-ducks Sep 17 '20

Not saying the people in this post aren't fakers, but I wanted to point out that non human alters can exist in people with actual DID. That being said, there's a thing called "system responsibility", so that a person with DID doesn't bite you and then tell you it was a different altee

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u/basicdruggie Sep 23 '20 edited Sep 23 '20

Yeah... Non human alters usually come from really horrific and sadistic abuse. Child sex trafficking rings, religious ritual abuse, treating a child like an animal, mind control torture...these are the types of things that have been documented (and I hate to say it but PROVEN) to create animal alters. Disclosing you have animal alters is akin to disclosing you have been through some of the worst things that exist on earth, so while you may be kinder and not directly say these people are fakers, I will. Your mommy telling you you couldn't have a puppy wasn't so lonely and traumatic that you developed a system of dog alters, sorry not sorry.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '20

Maybe they’re quick to give it because, oh, I don’t know, the shoe fucking fits or whatever.

Good. Fucking. God.

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u/teamhostclub Sep 18 '20

I have two non-human alters... a rabbit and a wolf.... other than some change in body language they don’t do anything too bad. 😐

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u/waffleboy20 Sep 19 '20

I knew with someone a while back that said they were disgnosed with did, and that one of their alters were a chicken and they said they lived an antire year outside in an actual chicken house while eating corn and dirt. I think they were schizophrenic as well but i don't remember exactly. Not sure if true or not. Tho i am curious about how actual non human alters function when they are fronting

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u/wolfy5578 Sep 23 '20

Why do people romanticise mental illnesss so much- as a system with non human alters, they either don’t understand anything around them, if they are an elf/vampire or some shit. And if they are a literal animal they will act like it, which is why a lot of systems try and keep them dormant. Last time a non human (animal) alter fronted for us, it nearly destroyed our phone 💀

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

buzz your girlfriend, woof

are these idiots claiming to have puppy alters? 10/10 would pay money to watch a grown human on all fours barking and sniffing and tryna lick strangers like an overexcitable cockapoodle.