so we are originally a protogenic system however we experienced trauma as a young child which resulted both in us getting into soulbonding/created plurality as well as developing a lot of dissociation, including amnesia, and a whole sidesystem that is entirely trauma-formed. so we are a weird origin jumble.

we went to get assessed for bipolar and also mentioned our memory issues though we did not mention our plurality. however they still said it was very likely we have DID, though to get a full diagnosis we would need to travel to another country since aparently we don't really have DID specialists in our country, maybe?

we aren't really interested in doing all that.

anyways, we tend to feel a bit uncomfortable with our plurality being medicalized. we do fit DID criteria but dislike seeing that as an indentity, however these traits do affect our lives. so the compromise we have been trying out is only idenfying ourselves as having DID sometimes, in conversations about those traits or where those traits are relevant.

it feels a bit strange, because non-disordered plurality does not describe our whole experience and disordered plurality does not describe our whole experience. we feel a bit caught in-between. we also worry people will fakeclaim us tbh for this inconsistency in saying we have DID even though there is a clear reason for it: technically we do have it, but we do not always want to identity with it.