- Joined
- Jun 4, 2018
I remember reading the account of someone with DID, and they desperately were striving to reintegrate their splinters (they'd succeeded to an extent). They joked, 'if only so I can remember I drank the last of the orange juice and need to buy some more'.I can explain this, and it's even more Autistic than you think it is.
In the cases of actual multiple personality disorders (which are exceedingly rare), someone with such a condition is best off trying to integrate - I.E. to cause the various splinter personalities to recoup into the whole. The idea is that conditions like DID, historically, are due to an intense psychiatric trauma wherein the mind fractures in an attempt at self-preservation, and integrating means that these disparate elements are regathered back where they belong.
Multiple systems, meanwhile, are fucking pretenders who latch onto this and pretend to have headmates for attention. To these idiots, anything that would hamstring what makes them SUPER SPESHUL is a bad thing, and as such, integration, to a Multiple System, would constitute the murder of their headmates.
I think there's a lesson here. People who are actually suffering from mental disorders don't necessarily want to stay that way. They want the banal, goofy life of a normie, because it's sane, structured, and for all its annoyances it has its good moments too. These attention-whoring fuckstains don't want to be cured, because then they're not speshul any more and they have to deal with the same annoyances we do, without any way to run away from it.