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traumagenic system here: if you have a system, you can use the word system. It doesn’t mtter if you have DID or not. I think a lot of this “debate” stems from DID systems saying that endogenic systems are fake, tbh. While endogenic systems don’t have the same situation as DID systems, they are not fake and they are not appropriating DID just by being and using the word system

Thank you for chiming in. I think you’re absolutely right that the dispute started there. I am saddened that there is such a situation going…

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Hello. I just want to say that, as someone who is a DID sufferer and studying psychology currently in university, alters actually can and often do continue to be formed beyond childhood if the trauma was never dealt with and/or if the emotional instability from the event/events never faded, along with other reasons. However, in order to be diagnosed DID, your first alter at least did have to form during childhood. I cannot speak for OSDD-1/DDNOS, as I haven’t researched those as deeply, but.

Interesting. My information on alters having to be formed from childhood comes from @this-is-not-dissociative and other such blogs. I am unable to retrieve the exact…

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