multiple personality disorder – knitting in the dark

neurodivergentsupport:

To every system, multiple, person with DID/DDNOS or a related condition that have been distressed over the movie Split:

I’m sorry this movie was made and that it isn’t getting more backlash or being stopped. You deserve to hear an apology from those who created and supported it, and since you won’t, here is at least one from me instead.

You are not a monster. You are not dangerous. You are not more likely to be violent or hurtful than singlets. You are not worse than singlets in any way.

This still applies just as much if you have violent intrusive thoughts.

If you are feeling thoughts of wishing you weren’t a system right now, that’s ok. You aren’t betraying anyone. It’s really hard to be a system in a society that demonizes it like this, and it’s okay to have mixed feelings about something so complicated, or even not want to be involved in it at all.

If you are proud to be a system and just wish it would be respected and treated fairly, that is absolutely okay too. If you never want to integrate and wish people would accommodate you as you are, that’s okay. You deserve to be accommodated without being forced to alter fundamental or considerable parts of yourself you don’t want to.

If your multiplicity doesn’t look anything like it does in media, that doesn’t mean you are fake. The media is fake, and there are as many ways to be multiple as there are systems.

If you remember or know about trauma that caused you to become dissociative, you’re good. If you don’t remember any trauma but you’re still dissociative and not sure why or how, you’re good.

I love you. My inbox is open.

theunpuzzledproject:

We at the Unpuzzled Project do not, cannot, and will not support any film that takes neurodivergence (in this case Dissociative Identity Disorder and other forms of multiplicity) and uses it as a trope to demonize characters, thereby exploiting the public’s fear of neurodivergence and promote stigma and stereotypes about neurodivergent people. We invite you to also pledge to not support the film “Split” in any way. Send a message to the film industry that discrimination doesn’t pay and we refuse to continue spreading the harmful messages such discrimination promotes.

As someone with a dissociative disorder and someone who is friends with members of multiple systems, this is really important to me. The media persists in demonising people who are often the victims of horrenous abuse. Sometimes this is the cause of their multiplicity, sometimes they are abused BECAUSE they are multiple. Often it’s both. But every time something like this gets made, the world is made more dangerous for those who live with dissociation and/or are multiple. People die. This is not an exaggeration. Like members of any marginalised group, hatespeech and false media makes the general population see them as other, as lesser, as a dangerous element. Don’t buy into the lie. Don’t become an aggressor. Don’t watch Split.