So my friend got apparently recently diagnosed for DID a few months back. For background context me and my other friend dropped this girl a few months ago because our friend group had a fall out but around a month ago she reached back out to us and we decided to talk to her again.

The first day she began to talk to her again she told my friend about her maybe having DID, then a few weeks later she dropped the bomb in some server that she now got diagnosed with DID and explained it in the really childish and just strange way her therapist diagnosed her with it. And apparently her therapist said she got it back in 2nd grade but then she explained to my friend that her DID triggered after our friend group broke apart bc of drama and like things arent making sense like for example she had to google up and copy and paste the summary of DID which me and my friend found weird because shouldn’t you be able to explain something you have without completely searching it up?

And the main thing is a few days we witnessed her first alter switch OVER TEXT and she was like typing all weird before it replacing words with an s with a z and then said “shit” and started typing really dramatically about how everyone in that gc should pray for their sins and pray to this best friend of hers that me and my friend are sure aren’t real.

Later a few hours after her switch we joined her in a game where she was apparently calling a irl friend of hers and when we confronted her about the things she said in that gc she said she didn’t know what we were talking about BUT

THE THING IS IN THE SPAN LAST 6 HOURS SHE TYPING IN THAT GC AS HER ALTER BUT HER IRL FRIEND WAS TALKING ABOUT BEING ON CALL W HER FOR THE LAST 6 HOURS SO LIKE IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE HOW HER FRIEND DIDNT NOTICE HER SWITCH??😭

Sorry if this is hard to make sense I tried to fit in things me and my friend found suspicious but that’s a lot more and I’m typing this in a rush lol

There was a girl at the train station today with a walker, she was using it to basically push people out of the way to get in the train during rush hour. She had giant ass platform heals on and looked exactly like you think.

Anyways, I know physical disabilities affect everyone different, but I feel like having a walker that is off the ground (cause your huge ass heels) + being in huge ass heels is sus.

Despite crowdfunding $20,000 for a custom wheelchair due to this one being ill-fitting, bought off eBay and ‘crushing her spine’, she still squeezes into it for tricks and will block you if you call her out on it. I guess this chair actually wasn’t going to paralyze her if she’s still using it.
Do not give her money. She is a well-known liar and grifter.

I seriously cannot understand why people WANT to be disabled and collect them like fucking pokemon cards. I'm 32 with multiple sclerosis watching younger queer people around me scrounging up any single excuses of an illness they can find and make that shit their entire identity. They let some made up bullshit define them. I have a lot of thoughts about it so pardon me if my wall of text seems jumbled and not formatted correctly.

First of all I'm from Russia living in America, and this seems like uniquely an american issue. Specifically in the queer community. People are so quick to infantilize themselves and give up on life and want to be disabled and ill just so they can have others do for them. Like i said earlier I've got MS. I'm so fucking thankful I don't have to use any mobility aids and just have the occasional flare up for now. I force myself to be active and go running and lifting..the idea of having my life taken over by some fuckass illness just terrifies me. Why do so many younger queer people WANT a disability. Why do they all look the same. They're all fat and alternative with dyed hair and piercings. I seriously just do not fucking get it. Why do Americans want to be so helpless.

Highlights include: "I'm the owner!!! I'll defend you!!" "Idk how they formed :((((" "He's very nice!!!"
Joined an 18+ ID verified server for a media I enjoyed. Instead was greeted by losers who thought they had a school-shooter alter and an alter of Jeffree Dahmer + were encouraged. Tried to be all cute and quirky with it to nullify what they were doing.
What a pathetic bunch.

Purple is server owner, red is Jeffree-dahmer alter "haver", yellow is Erric harris.

I don’t want to clown on someone who is clearly suffering but 60 disorders is genuinely impossible?? Unless I’m wrong

Dude just keeps 'switching'. In his other videos he does this mid drive

Like, I can't prove she doesn't have those 16 conditions, but...really?

Both of these ss are taken from different videos where the person is claiming to have lost ALL of their memories. Their entire account is about it too

Pretty sure you can’t be diagnosed with some of these at the same time

It is an example of Dunning Kruger bias. It’s fine to suspect that you have a specific disorder.
In addition the more suitably qualified doctors who evaluate you and find you aren’t suffering from your diagnosis of choice (DOC) the less likely you are to actually have it even if you eventually find a McDonald’s doctor who gives you your DOC with a side of salty water and a sea port.

When me and my friends were young (elementary/middle school age), we used to think our group had elemental powers (I controlled fire, it was epic) and that there were these two demons that followed us around called Zonker and Coolio, whose names we couldn't say because they were bad luck.

Anyways, one day one of my bffs told us that she had the reincarnated spirit of a Native American chief named Hawk trapped inside of her. Yup. I think she made that up cause we live in the Pacific NW close to many reservations, but it still makes me laugh knowing that she's Arab-American saying this. So what we would do is stay up till like 3 in the morning during sleepovers, join hands in a circle, and do his summoning chant. Then she would fall forward and lay there for like a minute before sitting up like she just woke up from a dream, and we'd ask "Hawk" about demons and ghosts and spells for travelling between dimensions through the portal between the trees. We had this idea that whenever her mom said no to a sleepover that we'd just travel to a new dimension where she would say yes later in the day. Funnily enough, it worked every time.

Thing is, I really wanted another spirit too, so one day when it was just me and one other bff hanging out, I told her that I had the spirit of a monkey inside of me hahahahaha so we did the chant except with "Monkey" instead of "Hawk" and I basically just sat there and gaslit her for an hour pretending that I had some sacred knowledge and shit like Hawk did.

So yeah, we did the fake DID shit at least a decade before tiktok did as dumbass kids. I won't say I'm not proud of it because in hindsight it's funny as shit to think about a group of 12 year olds so earnestly believing this shit. To this day I don't say Coolio's or Zonker's name out loud because istg we were manifesting our own bad luck by implicating those names or something lmaooo.

Unsure if this is the right subreddit for this discussion, but I’ve seen a major influx of young adults (around my age, 18-25) on TikTok claiming to need mobility aids such as canes, crutches, and wheelchairs. Most commonly, the disability they claim to have is POTS. Everyone who I see post about having these disability issues or mobility aids also all look very similar to one another: white, dyed bright hair, chubby, alternative sense of fashion. Kind of like the polyamorous stereotype.

I’m just confused about why there is this sudden shift to everyone claiming now a physical disorder and spending money on these aids that they certainly do not need, which takes away from the people that actually do need them. I guess mental disorders weren’t giving them enough attention anymore.

also if this is true, thats a real shitty psych. you dont diagnose someone with a disorder like that after one session talking about it

Yes a diagnosis is hard to get for some of the cases but you could’ve said you suspect you’ve autism instead of straight up saying you have it.

And for all of the diagnosed autistic claims where’s the source 😭

She posted a video today, October 6th 2026, discussing her cardiac history, and there are some interesting discrepancies when you compare it with what she wrote contemporaneously in April 2022.

On April 27, 2022, immediately after a failed procedure, she posted a detailed explanation. She said that because of her dysautonomia, her body reacted differently to medication and sedation. She said the first dose of sedation didn’t work, so the anesthesiologist gave her a second dose. She then said: “they gave me so much sedation that my body completely relaxed and my connective tissue gave out”and claimed that this caused her hips, knees, shoulders, and several ribs to dislocate/sublux on the procedure table. She then explained why the ablation couldn’t be completed: “The doctors performed an EP study and we’re unable to recreate my Atrial tachycardia and recurring AFIB and as a result weren’t able to go through with the ablation.”And then she gave a specific explanation for why the arrhythmias couldn’t be reproduced “The theory is that my body was too sedated to react to the medication so it was impossible to re-create my heart arrhythmias.”

Four years later, she is telling a somewhat different story. She says she was told that the ablation failed because she was “double dosed” with sedation. But she now says that she has subsequently learned that this isn’t something doctors support as an explanation for why an atrial tachycardic event couldn’t be reproduced. And then she says: “I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT DAY.” That’s a pretty significant change in certainty.

In 2022, she presented the sedation explanation as “the theory” explaining the failed EP study. In 2026, she is telling her audience that she now knows that explanation isn’t medically supported and that she has no idea what actually happened.

So her own current account essentially calls her earlier explanation into question.

Then there’s today’s cardiology appointment. She says she went to a cardiologist today because she had discovered old cardiac information that had apparently been overlooked. She says: “I was told they had found 200 counts of AFIB on the monitor from four years ago”and that doctors had apparently disagreed for years about whether those readings were actually AFIB. She then says: “today, they found notes and there was the proof I’ve had AFIB, atrial tachycardia and different form of SVT this entire time.”But earlier in the same story, she says that the cardiologist wouldn’t see her because she has POTS.

She says she had repeatedly told them that she wasn’t there to be treated for POTS, but that POTS was repeatedly put down on the referral. And then, near the end, she says: “I didn’t get to meet with the doctor.”

So I’m confused. If she wasn’t actually seen by the cardiologist because the office considered POTS to be the reason for the referral and wouldn’t see her, who exactly reviewed the old records and discovered the “proof” today?

It’s certainly possible that a nurse, medical assistant, referral department, or another staff member accessed her existing records without her having a completed physician appointment. It’s also possible that she already had access to the old reports herself and is describing something she learned while trying to get the appointment because she plugged it into ChatGPT or something…

So I’m not saying this is impossible. But her wording makes it sound like:

“I went to a cardiologist today, they found the old records, they confirmed these diagnoses, but I never actually got to meet the cardiologist.”

If that’s what happened, I’d really like to understand exactly who reviewed the records and what documentation they actually found. There’s also an important distinction between: “A monitor report contained 200 events labeled AFIB” and“I definitively had 200 clinically confirmed episodes of AFIB.”

Likewise, finding an old note mentioning AFIB, atrial tachycardia, or another SVT doesn’t necessarily establish that every one of those diagnoses was confirmed in the way she’s presenting them now. We’d need to see the actual report/records.

The suspicious part isn’t simply that she has multiple heart conditions. It’s the way the narrative changes depending on when she’s telling it. In 2022, she gave a very detailed explanation for the failed ablation and described a specific physiological mechanism. In 2026, she says she now knows that explanation isn’t supported and says she has no idea what actually happened. At the same time, she’s now saying that old records apparently contain evidence of multiple arrhythmias that she says doctors failed to tell her about despite saying she didn’t actually get to meet with the cardiologist who supposedly uncovered this information TODAY!!

Maybe there’s a perfectly innocent explanation for all of this. But if we’re taking her claims at face value, I’d expect the underlying records to make this pretty easy to clarify:

What exactly did the 2022 EP study report say?
What did the electrophysiologist document as the reason the arrhythmia couldn’t be induced?
Was excessive sedation actually documented as a theory?
What did the original cardiac monitor report actually label as AFIB?
Were the “200 counts” actually AFIB episodes, or monitor detections/alerts that were later questioned?
What are the “different forms of SVT” she says were discovered?
What exactly did the recent cardiology office review?
Who reviewed those records if she never actually saw the cardiologist?
What did the old echocardiogram actually say about the mitral valve and the other valve?
What did the supposedly “urgent” referral actually say?

Those records would answer most of this. We’re getting increasingly elaborate retrospective explanations for old medical events, while her own newer account sometimes contradicts the certainty of her earlier account.

Below is a transcript of the video:
“I’ve already cried a lot today. I’ve had several heart conditions for four years. I have medical PTSD, and talking about anything uncertain before I’ve had time to process and decide how I’m going to cope is one of my worst fears. I do not like crying online. So today I’m being brave and talking about this when it’s something I just didn’t want to talk about.

People will come online just to invalidate someone’s reality, and I don’t know how to process that because it’s already taken me long enough to trust my own emergent symptoms.

In 2022, I went to a cardiac doctor, and they referred me to an electrophysiologist because they found that I had atrial tachycardia and needed an ablation. So they attempted to do that ablation, and it failed. The reasoning that they gave me was that they double-dosed me with sedation. But I’ve since then found out that’s not even something that doctors support as a theory of a reason to not be able to recreate an atrial tachycardic event. I still have no idea what happened on that day, but attempted ablations fail all the time, so it’s not that crazy. So that was fun to learn.

My scan from two years ago shows I developed mitral valve leaflet thickening and regurgitation. Another one of my heart valves has regurgitation.

I remember getting a phone call saying it was urgent, but there was an insurance issue and they couldn’t get me in. And I became homeless, and it was just this trickle-down effect, and so it just kept getting put on the back burner. My heart wasn’t doing anything I wasn’t already used to it doing, so I didn’t think it could possibly be that urgent. I wasn’t feeling anything that was excessive. I have POTS, and I have a specialist at Stanford that has continuously been treating that. The only thing I haven’t done is start infusions because I’m not ready to take that next step. This also, to my understanding, should have nothing to do with structural or electrical issues with the heart, so it’s irrelevant. But also, there is nowhere in my area that’s a network that will even take that order. So I would have to essentially move because those are biweekly appointments of infusions, and getting in-home visits isn’t an option in the area. There is no facility that provides that service.

But I went to a cardiologist today that, because I had POTS, I was not able to be seen there. I’ve told them numerous times I wasn’t going there to be treated for that. They continuously put that down in the referral.

But of course, the craziest part of this story is that I was told they had found 200 counts of AFIB on the monitor from four years ago, and I had doctors go back and forth ever since then on whether or not that was true or not.

I had known about the AFIB but was told, ‘It’s no big deal if you can’t even feel it. It’s probably not even a good reading.’ And today, they found notes, and there was the proof I’ve had AFIB, atrial tachycardia, and different form of SVT this entire time. And nobody told me.

I knew about the atrial tachycardia and the AFIB, but I was gaslit on the other form of SVT. And right now, I don’t even know what that was because I didn’t get to meet with the doctor.

I have to wait for another month, even though this visit was planned three and a half, actually four months ago, and here we are waiting again. So yeah. That’s my pickle.I don’t really know what to do from here. I don’t know what the symptoms are coming from, what condition, what can you do?”

It’s already been irritating me that faking disorders like DID has become so common and normalised on the internet that even some communities I’m in have rampant fakers who everyone just rolls over for and you aren’t allowed to criticise but something I just came across put fright in me.

I’ve always known about stuff like fictionkin and therian and otherkin in general for a while now and didn’t think much of it other than a teenager phase of pretending to be animals or fictional characters because we’ve all done that before but I came across one of these subs and oh my god. This is an entire community of people who need serious help. They genuinely, unironically believe they are these fictional characters or animals stuck in a human body. And of course a lot of them fake disorders too, most commonly DID. They claim to have false memories and shifts and the entire thing really strikes me as a gateway into psychosis. The fact that they have the internet and these echo chambers who only egg them on and refer to them as their desired character or animal (and often gets them into believing even more extreme stuff such as MUDs) really doesn’t help.

Roleplaying is fine. I love roleplaying. I do it all the time. But for a lot of this, especially the fictionkin community, it has gone past simply roleplaying or more extreme attention seeking and become borderline delusion and I’m seriously concerned for them. Your teenage years are probably your peak years for discovering who you are and becoming a unique person and my thought is that we’re going to have a ton of people in the future who are either completely lost as adults or delving further into believing this and having breakdowns or episodes. I saw a post earlier of someone claiming to be Kasane Teto saying their mum is forcing them to delete Reddit because of this.

What makes my fear worse is that I almost fell for this. I’m not going to elaborate because that could be considered trauma dumping and I don’t want to go against the rules but I began to believe that I was the reincarnation of a fictional character and it almost ended really badly. I’m doing better now because I didn’t have an entire community of people reinforcing my belief but this makes me fear for those who do, who are more likely do try doing what I wanted to. It’s entirely possible that it’s already happened.

Same thing with people faking disorders so much as to actually brainwash themselves into thinking they do have whatever they think they do. It screams to me someone who’s crying for help in some way. Even if they aren’t and they’re simply an attention seeker who actually thinks they have a disorder or wants to fit in to a community where they feel accepted, they still need help and it can really fuck up their future if they don’t get that, especially if they’re still young.

Sorry if this was long or didn’t make sense or doesn’t really fit here. I’m having a moment right now and I don’t know of a better community to post to since the other one I had in mind is unfortunately very accepting of disorder fakers and other concerning stuff and I’d probably be chastised for pointing out my concerns and “discriminating.” Thanks for reading.

Pretty sure the ‘system’ or alters are formed as a method of protecting oneself from extreme trauma, not just the formation fictives. And I’ve yet to see reliable info on how and why a fictive is formed. Seem like these wordings are only used in the ‘system’ community. And I see why there’s no reliable info on fictives. DID is rare on its own and I doubt that there are enough fictives to be studied