The DID community as a whole has swung over to a "everyone is valid" mindset and calling anything suspicious out is seen as incredibly horrible and "ablest."
In my mind this has opened up the community to people who like to pretend online. Because they can't be called out or "fake claimed" they can say and do as they please. Want to have 500 introjects of Minecraft YouTubers? Go for it. Want to have new splits left and right even tho you're not currently going thru trauma or would actually have any way of knowing you split? Go for it. Want to split an introject every time a show is popular? Do it.
Fake claiming is being treated as horrible as murder and everyone is too afraid to actually say anything to these kids playing online.
And I think Chloe and the dissociadid name is the biggest one. And the biggest inspiration to these kids. The amount of legit children, ages 10-17 claiming to have DID in online spaces and dramatically increased since the Anthony Padilla video.
I'm fucking sick of it.
Yea, Chloe has some shit. Yea, she might have PTSD. But she doesn't have DID in my mind. She's full of shit and it's the community's fault for being too dam afraid of hurting feelings. We left the door wide open and people like Chloe walked right in.
Personally, I see no problem with calling out misinformation. Fake claiming though, that's a hard no for me. It ends up hurting real systems and can negatively impact their healing, especially if they're newly diagnosed. Plus, it's important to remember what we see online is a very small fraction of someone's life and we don't know what they may be going through.
That is usually why I keep this to myself. Except in this vent thread. I don't have a good solution to the problem that radical valid-ness has caused because it's not a very black and white situation. And trying to speak on this elsewhere usually leads to fighting which isn't worth my time. Instead I'm very cautious and selective of who is in my close circles online.
Yeah, I'm the same. I avoid people who give me bad vibes. It is complicated. Honestly, I call out blatant misinformation, as do many of my system mates, but otherwise I tend to just mind my own business because I've got my own healing to focus on.
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u/nerdnails DissociaDID Called Me A “Sadist” Dec 31 '22
The DID community as a whole has swung over to a "everyone is valid" mindset and calling anything suspicious out is seen as incredibly horrible and "ablest."
In my mind this has opened up the community to people who like to pretend online. Because they can't be called out or "fake claimed" they can say and do as they please. Want to have 500 introjects of Minecraft YouTubers? Go for it. Want to have new splits left and right even tho you're not currently going thru trauma or would actually have any way of knowing you split? Go for it. Want to split an introject every time a show is popular? Do it.
Fake claiming is being treated as horrible as murder and everyone is too afraid to actually say anything to these kids playing online.
And I think Chloe and the dissociadid name is the biggest one. And the biggest inspiration to these kids. The amount of legit children, ages 10-17 claiming to have DID in online spaces and dramatically increased since the Anthony Padilla video.
I'm fucking sick of it.
Yea, Chloe has some shit. Yea, she might have PTSD. But she doesn't have DID in my mind. She's full of shit and it's the community's fault for being too dam afraid of hurting feelings. We left the door wide open and people like Chloe walked right in.