A quick summary of how Host first met me.
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been seeing some posts lately of the rise tortles getting preggo and having kids and
frankly this is an embarassingly more common occurrence than it should be, and though it has nothing to do with Leo, i am absolutely blaming it on Leo/lh -Pearce
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Diary comic on living with a dissociative disorder
Started thumbnailing the pages in an attempt to brute force myself out of a particularly long episode a couple weeks ago. It didn't quite work (it's debatably still ongoing?), but at least I got a comic out of it ig
plz excuse the bad scan quality :c I'll get a proper scanner soon; fuck fighting with my phone's camera every time I want to post art
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Host has doubts, but we remembered that we thought about making a comic with a different set of characters back in college. Much like the ones we are making now.
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Just finished reading Elle(s), a comic series by Aveline Stokart & Kid Toussant
I’m struggling to find other people with OSDDID reviewing this, so I guess I’ll drop my 2¢ in.
There was a lot that felt really relatable in here — especially having an alter who goes completely quiet and shuts people out when conflict happens, and people you’re close to feeling confused and concerned by your completely different reactions to things. The art is gorgeous, and the visual indicator of the hair color changing was a neat way to show which alter is fronting.
There’s some inner world stuff that’s central to the story and while there are a lot of fantasy elements, I actually didn’t mind it as a storyline and a way to explain some of the amnesia Elle experiences and her general experience in brain space.
Where I start having issues is the explanation for Elle’s alters. I guess I have to admit, Elle isn’t diagnosed with DID or OSDD in-story. She’s technically (mis?)diagnosed with bipolar disorder (which, I think a lot of people with OSDDID will also relate to. That was a diagnosis I got and then had removed later when it was clear something else was going on). So while the narrative doesn’t explicitly tell you “this is someone with a complex dissociative disorder!!!” it’s very much in the subtext.
Which is why the turn in the second volume is … kind of a slap in the face? (Spoilers ahead.)
I kept waiting to find out what had caused each alter to split. I was especially interested in the personality who doesn’t speak — I figured there was an interesting origin story there.
Instead … the story veers off in the direction of, “Elle is the is way because she was actually several embryos who fused into one.”
Oof.
It doesn’t explore trauma beyond mentioning a kidnapping attempt when Elle was young (and not even delving into it as the cause of a split. It’s just a thing that happened).
It feels like the creators of this work may have wanted to do something else with it? Elle was supposedly adopted as an infant, but there are no baby pictures of her and no photos at all until around age 6. This is never explained. The kidnapping attempt is mentioned but downplayed. The ending feels exceptionally rushed.
It’s frustrating because MUCH of this story is very relatable, and the inner-world fantasy aspects might not be super grounded but they don’t completely come off as misinformation. But that chimera plot point (and look — chimerism in people is real and SUPER cool. It just doesn’t cause complex dissociative disorders) and the pacing issues near the end make it kinda come to a crashing stop.
I guess this means my search for good OSDDID rep in media continues …
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