Solely under the cut because I knowwwwww if I don't put it under a cut ppl are gonna reblog it w the worst possible opinions. This is my personal opinion and u don't have to agree with it.

Only TWs are talking abt DID/DID-adjacent stuff in media

I find it? Almost funny when people are bending over backwards to be "politically correct" when talking about characters in media with "multiple personalities" but are obviously not accurate portrayals (or, often, not portrayals/attempts at portrayals) of DID.

The idea of "multiple personalities" and "lots of beings one body" has been around. The Wikipedia article for uses of "legion" ("we are legion we are many") in popular culture is like...so long it's separated by media. It's not even that like. Out there creatively. It's in S/teven U/niverse for fucks sake. There's that YouTuber guy who does something similar too (and I'm pretty sure he's made a point to say it's NOT DID.) How often does that lil trope of the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other show up? All the time. It's not new it's not that far out. Not every media that has something with "multiple personalities" is supposed to be DID or is tied to DID. People get all up in arms about anything with the idea of seperating a mind or cramming more people in there or whatever. I've seen people get mad at IFS for the same reason. It's ridiculous and just goes to show people really only consider DID to be "multiple personality" under a new name.

I just don't think we always have to get real fuckin mad about everything that COULD be associated with DID. A lot of the time it isn't trying to be DID. If it's trying to be DID and still being awful about it (like The Movie Everyone Knows About) go ahead and make a fuss. I won't be a part of it but I don't care. But getting up in arms about like, IDK some teenager on Tumblr liking G/enocider S/yo from D/anganronpa or using "other personality" to refer to J/ekyll and H/yde or complaining about whatever other media that isn't about DID being "an inaccurate representation" of DID is like complaining Bram Stoker's Dracula was an inaccurate travel guide for Eastern Europe. It's not meant to be accurate it's just a story. It's for shits and giggles. Blah blah Jaws effect or whatever (which people also throw around without understanding) but I don't know, just seems like a waste of time to go fighting about fictional media that never utters the words "d/issociative i/dentity d/isorder" and bears no resemblance to DID other than "multiple personalities" when there's actual shit people could be talking about. Especially when the people making a fuss are usually the ones who don't know shit about DID anyway. I don't give a damn about whether people treat T/yler D/urden like an independent being or not bc he's a fictional character that's meant to be a representation for masculinity not a DSM case study. Tho I do luv Fight Club LMFAO.

I just feel that upon seeing me, a real life human being, saying I have DID people are more likely to assume I'm like some TikTok-ers than V/enom. Being annoying and weird is much more in the realm of reality than climbing walls and housing demons.