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does anyone feel the layer of plexiglass between themselves and the rest of the world or is that just a me thing

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I hear that

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NASA’s new images of Uranus captured by James Webb Space Telescope (2024)

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Boys night on the 15th of March, in the senate! so excited so hang out with the boys, heard theres cake, hope someone brought a knife.

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system things is how do i explain im distracted by the other people in my head without saying there's other people in my head

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Did anyone else try to consciously switch after system discovery?

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Traumagenic disorders (like most disorders, I believe) can look very different in remission or during/after successful treatment than they do when someone is at their worst.

In the traumatic situations I was in, my DID presented with frequent amnesia and dissociation (depersonalization and derealization,) flat affect, and uncontrollable mood swings. Out of the situations but before treatment, it looked like frequent flashbacks and possessive switching, more amnesia, and several conflicts between alters.

Now, after a few years in therapy, my DID looks like functioning as one unit, co-consciousness and easy communication, frequent blending, and fusion being possible between even parts who had high conflict with each other.

I still have DID. It just looks different in treatment (especially since I'm working towards final fusion, it's not going to present the same way someone with untreated, unmanaged DID will present.) I've lowered dissociative barriers via work in therapy - I'm still a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

I personally don't see it as "recovering from DID" but "recovering with DID." When I fuse, I will hopefully have the skills to deal with stress in a way that doesn't trigger splitting again, but I don't negate the years I struggled with this disorder. That doesn't stop being a part of my history any more than recovering from my eating disorder did.

This is not even to mention people who pursue functional multiplicity - their DID doesn't stop being DID because they're in a healthier, happier state.

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Every day is tuned out Tuesday when you have a complex dissociative disorder.

Honourable mentions:

- Muted Mondays

- 'Who am I?' Wednesdays

- Trauma blur Thursdays

- Forgetful Fridays

- 'Sure... I remember that...' Saturdays

- Spaced out Sundays

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please be patient with me im from the 1900s

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People will look at kids who read 58 books per year and go "parenting done right! :)" while everyone I know who used to read like that as a kid now has CPTSD.

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Plural culture is looking at plural kit and no one knowing who some of these people are

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sluttiest thing a man can do is know how to cook delicious meals

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have you thought about trans women in a normal way today

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You know when you're checking out a new fandom and you stumble across a writer/artist you loved in a previous fandom and it feels like running into a childhood friend at a bar

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Not enough jobs are willing to do training anymore, no matter what the situation. Grocery stores won't teach you to work a cash register, businesses won't teach you how to use their programs, even the arts won't teach you anything

Everyone wants a triple threat, expects you to just have those skills. In the old days? you could show up to a random theater barely able to dance and they'd teach you, and then the incel living in the walls would make you a world class singer and actor and you'd be headlining your own show in a few years