I know that these are mainly just kids who don't know better and are searching for answers but I'm

So

Fucking

Frustrated

With the goddamn akinator bullshit I've seen in mental health servers when it comes to DID and 'new alters'. Yes, it is possible that a new part or part emerging from dormancy might know how to utilize a bot; that isn't the strange thing as DID is a covert disorder and basic knowledge (such as skills or common information about the world) is often shared between many different parts, especially ANPs. The strange part is how they all know everything except their name. They know everything about how to go to and use a system or mental health discord but not what DID is. They know random bullshit about their 'backstory' (and it is always, always, always fictives, never any of the far more common parts who are far more likely to genuinely be disoriented), their appearance, names of their friends, but never their own name. Suddenly they will be told the name and remember everything and go on to make a full plural kit profile, complete with their particular system's aesthetic.

It's so frustrating. The level of misunderstanding of what DID is to cause this entire charade and roleplay (and that is what it is) is unreal. The automatic assumption that all new or re-emerging alters are a fictive is actively dangerous. The over differentiation of alters is dangerous. This play-acting is dangerous and harmful for the kids in question and I'm so fucking mad at the societies that have made it a popular trend. If they have DID, they are worsening their disorder, worsening their dissociation, raising barriers and depersonalization, and ruining their own sense of identity. For kids who don't, they are diving deeper into this misdiagnoses and hurting themselves and creating barriers and separations between healthy and normal identity discovery and experimentation. It is normal for teenagers to feel like a bunch of different people as they discover who they are. That's normal! That's part of being a teen! Add in potential trauma and it can become unhealthy, sure, and informed by trauma, but this is a normal developmental phase that is being medicalized. Go kin! Kinning is fine and normal and it is okay to kin characters and feel like them and identify strongly with them! Go role play! Go draw! Go cosplay! Go write! Go get fucking therapy! I'm going to explode!