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I would like to take this opportunity to point out however, that we will try as hard as we can to be active online and put new recources on our website over the weekend because this is not a disorder just experienced by white folk
BIPOC deserve to be visible and our stories heard by the neurotypical white population. We dont want DDs comeback to be all that others looking up the disorder see. So many other stories and experiences are unseen due to popularity and algorithms.
If you are reading this thread because you are looking at the #dissociativeidentitydisorder tag or #multiplepersonalities tag : please take the time to watch a variety of peoples videos on youtube if you are using that as your initial go-to platform
Alters are not here to be your "favorite personality" in a system. Listen to the actual stories behind the voices, understand beyond the surface level why each part of a system may vastly vary in characteristics to anothers.
We are more than our disorder, yet the cause of it has literally shaped our entire state of being, a precursor to how we interpreted the rest of the world as it flowed around us.
Dissociative BIPOC are a minority within a minority. This doesnt mean white people have not struggled, just that it is important to see that race vastly alters how each group experiences the disorder. Much like how rich women experience sexism is vastly different to a poor woman
Dissociative identity disorder is not a horror trope, it is also not to be glorified nor romanticised as mystical and 'fun'. How we all function with the disorder is not something to be measured as a yes or no, as even for a 'functional' system, time and place can change this
We are not your inspiration, but let us inspire you to be more compassionate, more open to understanding, more active in clearing space for the marginalised to thrive rather than simply exist.
