I would say that the United States, as of right now, has three main food groups (aside from junk food) and those are, Italian, Mexican, and Chinese. All of which have been Americanized here to some extent but differently in different parts of the country. I find this very funny because I have heard people from Italy be indignant about what we’ve done with the stuff (and about good restaurants too!) like, sorry if you guys weren’t creative, mixing things up a bit is great. “What about (regionally popular food)?!” I know we all have those, I haven’t heard of bitches in the south eating lefse, but that’s not my point! What was my point actually? I think I was going to say that, even if we bastardize stuff a lot, I’m super glad we have, as a country, agreed that more seasoning is good. Because if this place had been like “fuck immigrant food forever, we are eating British style” I think I would die.
This country has historically treated immigrants like shit, but we do tend to cave eventually and go like “actually,
your food is really good” a kind of shallow prize I guess, but I’m glad we actually start doing it eventually because I WILL mock British food and I WILL be sad that the only good family recipes my family has from before immigrating are all desserts. Don’t get me wrong, I love sweets, but I’m pretty sure there is a reason we stopped making other stuff
Wait, I re-read this today and realized I sound like my family is British. We are not. What even are British desserts? I bet they don’t have enough cardamom. Although lefse doesn’t have cardamom and i like a lot of things without it, my point is that their holiday and special event foods probably don’t have enough! Which wouldn’t surprise me tbh because apparently the only place that went crazy for the stuff outside of where it originated seems to have been Scandinavia for some reason. At least some maps I looked at seemed to suggest it. Which rocked me to my core
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TW this post will talk about fakeclaiming within DID - especially TikTok. There is a sui mention as well as talk about traumas systems may go through and just a whole heap of TikTok/Did faking drama, as well as ableism. This is an angry and loud post. It is a vent. It is very sarcastic and snarky. If I missed anything lmk. Proceed with caution.
I already made a post rambling about something’s that irritate or upset me (this account is a vent blog, so I mean it makes sense) but I now want to just. Get some shit out there talking about how much fakeclaiming shit systems go through.
I am not a discourse account, also. I may talk about some conversional issues on this post, but do not mark me or this post as discourse or drama. My account is barely even intended to be shouted out to every corner, it’s a vent blog. Anyways-
Since no one else has said it so boldly (that I’ve seen), here we go
Systems. People with DID. Specifically traumagenic. People who have introjects?? Are now suddenly called fakers? There’s a whole stereotype about that now? I cannot tell you how much it boils my blood to hear this.
Hey, do you remember when over five years ago most people just knew DID from the movie split? Or they just straight up thought you were schizophrenic? Or someone dangerous? Hey, do you remember that? When most people with DID were forced to be really silent about it because of that concept? Of course you don’t! Cus all you know about DID was after that when there was a trend on TikTok about it, and now everyone who claims to have DID is faking now, right?? Now you have to prove your medical diagnosis to avoid being harassed? Now if you have any sort of introject you’re fake! Now you’re just like all those little tiktokers that blew in what, 2020? Hey, you know, there’s a reason systems were silent for so long. Now you’re targeting minors, systems with large numbers, systems with smaller numbers, systems who are adults, systems who are on almost any platform, systems who dress alternative, systems who “don’t look like they have DID”—please get a grip. Please.
You know something?? I remember when years ago if I said I had DID, people’s first question was “oh like split?” or they literally were afraid of me because the only thing people knew about DID was from split, or it was thought you had psychosis or a mood disorder. Otherwise no one had a clue what you were talking about and just thought you were fucking insane. Most people did. I remember when DID started being well known, and TikTok was the platform for it. I was so excited and hopeful for my future, maybe I could begin to have more support and understanding around me. But slowly, and surely, it came tumbling down. I had fictives then. I still do. I have introjects.
I had introjects way back when people just thought I was crazy and had no idea what the word “dissociate” meant! But of courrrsee, the fakers! Of course, because of some stupid internet trend and a bunch of people gatekeeping and assuming at such a high rate, I’m clearly some attention seeker who just wants to have a severe disorder.
Do you know how many times I’ve been called cringe?
How many times I’ve been told I’m faking before I could even say more than “I have DID”? Or, my favorite, “to stop appropriating a real disorder that people actually suffer with?”
Helloooo! I do suffer with it! But you don’t wanna know how many times I’ve tried to kill myself because of how terrified I feel in my life or how many times I’ve been discriminated against and abused for having this disorder because I have a fucking Junko Enoshima introject, do you?? You don’t want know how many opportunities I’ve lost in my life both big and small since I was a child because I “look like a tiktoker”, do you? You don’t wanna know my childhood history that SYSTEMS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO GIVE YOU because then” I’m making up a sob story to sound convincing”, do you??
There’s a reason traumatized people are angry. There’s a reason why people lock themselves away, are cold, and snappy, and don’t like people.
I have never enjoyed the mainstream. I do not mean that as like an edgelord, I mean I never have. Because time and time again, they have failed me with the very information I have held close and dear to my life, and claim they know more than me.
Systems are SCARED for their safety online. I’m not a part of the system community, but I have seen it. Every person who has DID, is likely afraid in one way or another is being perceived as fakers because of this constant battle between mainstream media who doesn’t give a shit and doesn’t know enough, and people who are going through the struggle.
Having a DSMP introject DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Being any sort of minority as a system DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Dressing alternative or having dyed hair as a system DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Being a minor and a system DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Having MHA introjects DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Having a small or high alter count DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Seeming happy as a system DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Seeming sad as a system DOES NOT EQUAL FAKING.
Systems can choose whatever they want to do with their experiences. If they wanna draw art about themselves, it doesn’t mean they’re faking. If systems wanna use neo or noun pronouns to describe themselves or if some of their parts want to, it doesn’t mean they’re faking. If they want to make little proxy’s of their alters and use character creator apps to express themselves, it does not mean they’re faking.
Everyone who has got on the hype train of “system fakers” “system cringe” since TikTok, I do not care if you’ve known someone with DID who faked it. I do not care if you’ve been in treatment and met “real people with DID”. I do not care if you are studying to become a therapist. I do not care if you know a lot about psychology. I do not care if you’re a smart person. I do not care if you’re only experience of DID is from split. I do not care if your only experience of DID is from TikTok. I do not care if you see any pattern or “suspicious” behavior within a group of people with DID. I do not care if you have met five fakers or seventy. I do not care if you have read weeks worth of books on DID and spent extensive amounts of time and effort trying to understand this disorder. I do not care if you just feel like someone is faking. I do not care if you do not understand someone else’s experience. I do not care if you know statistically someone with [x] trait with DID is unlikely.
I do not care if you didn’t first learn from TikTok. I do not care if you’ve been in the community yourself. I do not care if you are a doctor or a husband or a child or another abuse survivor or anything. I do not care if you have supported our community once. I do not care if you genuinely had interest and knowledge about DID years before hand. I do not care if you have been in treatment or in mental health facilities or have some sort of all knowing confirmation in your mind. I do not care if you are skeptical. I do not care if you support but don’t care or understand.
I do not care where you came from, what you carry, or what your beliefs are about the situation.
You do not get to police if someone is faking their disorder or not. You do not get to decide what someone can or cannot do with their time as a system. You do not get to psychoanalyze the validity of someone’s experience. You do not get to ask for someone’s medical records and proof of diagnoses. You do not get to harass and bully and stereotype a group of people based on your confirmation biases.
I do not give a fuck what you think.
You do not get to police around and suppress an already vulnerable group of people.
You do not get to decide what is going on or not going on in someone else’s head, and make noise about it that puts those people in danger.
People with DID have every right to be angry. People with DID have every right to upset. You just took a very serious condition these people have and already have enough issues with, ripped it out from the ground by the root, and hyper analyzed and humiliated every fucking part of it, from little proxies to why they may cosplay themselves to the extent of traumas they dealt with. You spit on and tear apart every aspect of the unique system experience that was once a tight knit and loving community of people and demand these people sit down and deal with it. You force them into little boxes like a science experiment and put blocks in their way that make everything they say and do a sign of faking.
You guys are rancid.
Do not use my post for discourse.
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