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So here's the deal. Everyone has bad childhood experiences. Normally a care giver helps you navigate that. When a caregiver is unable or unwilling to help you sort out something that changes your world view under age 9 that can be enough to create headmates.
That is under the current medical model for DID/OSDD. We spend far too much time focused on world ending trauma that we "other" people who either can't remember or don't see what happened as trauma enough. (This thread is specifically about traumagenic systems)
Maybe we should just let people claim the labels and understanding of their own lives that work for them instead of assuming it wasn't enough or they can't be real or they're just not ready to face what "really" happened.
Under the current medical model all that is required is a kid under 9ish has trouble with an adverse event they had to handle alone and developed amnesia barriers to handle daily life. It doesn't have to be huge or abuse.
We keep perpetuating this idea it HAS to be significant and repeated and forcing people into a corner to dig up horrible things, making them feel fake and ostracized when they can't find anything bad enough for society to accept them.
If you're like us and lived in a nightmare it can be hard to relate to someone who doesn't see whatever it was that made their system as trauma, but they are still valid and real and its past time we stopped assuming there is only one way to plural.
Look up research on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). It can change how you see your own lives and others.
