#i'd rather include a million people who turn out to be faking on purpose

[seasidewanderers]

controversial take maybe but. seeing all those "endos are delusional" makes me wonder... why does it matter? what is the difference between a delusion of being plural, and "actually being plural", whatever that means?

delusions are reality for the person experiencing them. my delusions to me are as real as my alters are. it's like saying someone experiencing somatic pain isn't in actual pain, therefore their pain is fake until they can provide a complete list of sources that prove somatic pain exists.

if you believe endos are traumagenics in denial, insisting they're actually just psychotic is a real fucking weird way of going "I don't think psychotics deserve autonomy and I don't think they are capable of knowing what they're actually going through"

if you believe endos are fake, I don't know what to tell you man. lots of people think you are fake too, lots of people think I am fake. it's quite literally your word against theirs. and until you are their psychotherapist you have no credit going around telling them they're fake. no not even a psychotherapist is enough, if they're not your patient, you have as much credit as I do

I don't know. maybe calling everyone you don't like delusional as a way to discredit what they're going through, belittle them and their reality, and shame them into shutting up, is not the fight for acceptance you'd want to be having.