What Else Should I Know About Dissociative Disorders?

While DID has mostly been depicted in fantastical ways in popular media, most often negatively as crazed murderers, most systems (a way to refer all of the individuals personalities sharing a body) are actually less prone to violence than the general population due to the fear associated with early developmental trauma. It’s possible for a person to live an entire lifetime without ever discovering that they have a dissociative disorder, especially with OSDD-1b thanks to the lack of amnesia upon switching. These disorders are more common in autistic populations, though the link could be genetic it is more likely due to trauma being more common for autistic children. DID and the like are still controversial even in professional psychological care givers, with many disbelieving  that it is a valid  diagnosis, despite concrete evidence of its existence through brain scans showing distinct changes when the front switches. There is also argument around how to treat them, and what should be the goal of treatment – it was once believed that fusion (the combining of all parts of a system into one identity) should always be the goal but is now allowing for systems to strive for harmony, depending on the system’s preferences.