#And that lying online is not exclusive to CDDs?

[unfamiliar-ghostly-system]

It's not that people can't lie about having a CDD, or that everyone with a self-diagnosis is correct, it's that it's weird as fuck to want to die on the hill that you should be able to single these people out or want to proudly proclaim that you "know who's faking".

Hey, people lie on the internet all of the time (about everything!), but fakeclaiming and the whole mindset of "I need to know who is lying or wrong" is not helping anyone and it is inevitably going to hurt the people who DO have a CDD.

Like, yeah, okay, "not everyone online who says they have DID has DID", but have you considered we don't care (because, again, people lie about shit online all of the time), and we've also realised that filtering through the community through the lense of "I need to know who is faking/lying" is unproductive?

[sophieinwonderland]

Answer for chartreusechaos from a pro-endo system who is neither endogenic nor traumagenic, and has a fairly good understanding of the typical sysmed answer to their question.

Basically sysmeds don't believe a system can be partially traumagenic. Systems exist because of early childhood trauma that caused their brain to not integrate properly into a singular person and causes them to split alters. It doesn't matter if an alter doesn't seem tied to a particular trauma. All alters exist because of the traumatic childhood and the CDD. So option 1 is that you're a fully traumagenic system that is confused and has been fed misinformation by the pro-endo community.

Option 2 is that you're not a system at all. What you believe to be alters are a symptom of other disorders, and you've been misled into believing they are really alters. You're not lying. But you're mislabelling your symptoms and probably making them worse by indulging in your delusions instead of connecting to reality. You sharing your "system" experiences online only serves to confuse yourself and others. You probably need therapy and should get off Tumblr for the sake of your mental health and to prevent spreading further misinformation.

And of course, there's always option 3 which is that you're lying and your alters are just OCs that you pretend to have no control over because you've fallen into some sort of DID online trend. In which case whatever you claim to experience doesn't matter because it's considered to be mostly or entirely fabricated to get attention online.

All the above are what we've heard from sysmeds and anti-endos, as another system that falls between the lines sysmeds like to draw in the sand. These are not our own beliefs. We believe you. We believe that every system should get to identify themselves and their origins however they want without judgment or exclusion. Hopefully this gives some of the insight you were looking for.

This is all totally accurate from the sysmeds I've seen.