This is so true!!
We don't believe we have DID or OSDD, but we are plural, and it does seem like our trauma affected our plurality.
We won't argue with anyone trying to say that we actually have DID/OSDD. It doesn't even really matter to us that much whether we do or do not. All that really matters is that we are plural.
We have had our moments of thinking that our trauma wasn't "bad enough" and shit like that. So, this post definitely helps a bit.
Remember, comparing trauma is not good for anyone.
- Shay 🐾
"my trauma wasn't bad enough i can't be a system"
whenever I hear people say this I always wonder, what metric are you using? your tolerance for how things affect you now as a teenager, or adult?
something that you experienced as a child is going to use a completely different metric! a child's brain is much less developed than an adult's and what they're able to handle is much less. for instance maybe you like horror movies? you probably can watch them without even getting scared! but if you watched the same film at 7 years old it would likely be a lot different!!
you don't need extreme trauma in order to have DID. it just needed to be extreme enough to YOU as a child, that's all. You got bullied at school? that's enough to develop DID! you had a disorder from an early age that made life hard? that's enough to develop DID! your parents were neglectful? that's enough to develop DID!
there's no such thing as gold star DID you don't need to have gone through the worst of the worst. there's no need for trauma olympics, if you have DID you have DID and that's all!