#tw ableist term

[aspd-culture]

would it be strange if i reclaimed psychopath if i was armchair diagnosed as a kid? + i do have aspd traits but not particularly in a situation where i can get a psych eval

Being armchair diagnosed, especially as a child, is not enough to know if you have ASPD. We’re perfectly cool with self-diagnosis here, but it needs to be well researched. One thing you’ll find in the process of that research is why that “as a child” is a problem. ASPD cannot be diagnosed as a child for a reason: because under the age of 18 the traits are not able to be differentiated between normal stressed teenage behavior and in children younger than that, there is a high potential they will not go on to develop ASPD despite having traits of it.

There is quite a high threshold of things that need to go awry in neurological development for someone to end up with a trauma based personality disorder. ASPD in particular comes with a strong potential to avoid the traits becoming the PD if a child or honestly even a teenager is introduced to the support system they need and given reason to trust it.

And even as an adult, you can have some traits without having the disorder. I would definitely do some research, starting with but not exclusively reading the current DSM (DSM V-TR) entry on ASPD, and not just what’s posted in my bio, that’s the criteria but none of the important surrounding information in the ASPD section. That’ll go over a lot of info, and from there you wanna go through both scholarly stuff (articles & research papers - many of which will be stigmatized but it’s important to read because somewhere in there they hide some good info), and anecdotal stuff like this blog but not just this blog. Take in as much information as you can, learn about what it is and what it isn’t, and especially learn about the things that are similar to ASPD but are not ASPD. There are other disorders that look similar, but have key differences.

I suggest all this because unlike some disorders that are either easy to self diagnose (panic disorder - the main thing you need to know is if you have panic attacks, and if you have panic attacks about the fear of having a panic attack) or at least much more straightforward than self diagnosing a personality disorder. PDs are in fact some of the most complicated disorders to categorize and diagnose - even professionally - because when something is affecting every facet of someone’s personality, it’s not going to be easy to figure out what’s a symptom vs what’s situational. They usually require a long rapport with the diagnosing professional because they have to be persistent and consistent across time and situations. That means that it’s not something you can look into quickly and decide, you’ll need to keep watching for the symptoms once you know them and see if you are responding that way across the board or if something is triggering that response in only certain situations.

I can’t stop you from using that term, but I can say that being armchair diagnosed as a child is not a good way to figure out if you have something as complicated as a personality disorder. Honestly, a big reason that I say to people that they need to look at other anecdotal sources from other places too is because someone I’m very close with who has known me for over 10 years at this point and lives with me has BPD and thought I did too, like was 100% certain. In fact they directly thought I had the hyper-empathy of BPD - and so did my ex who knew me for much less time but also has BPD. Even having the disorder yourself and knowing someone for a long time doesn’t mean you can accurately armchair diagnose them. Like I said, these are complicated to diagnose.

For reference, it took me at least a year of fairly constant research (bc I have mental health as a special interest, I was researching something about ASPD or its differential diagnoses for at least a couple hours per week at that time), probably longer, to feel secure self diagnosing with ASPD. While it doesn’t need to necessarily take that long, it does take some effort to understand a disorder like this.

Plain text below the cut:

Being armchair diagnosed, especially as a child, is not enough to know if you have ASPD. We’re perfectly cool with self-diagnosis here, but it needs to be well researched. One thing you’ll find in the process of that research is why that “as a child” is a problem. ASPD cannot be diagnosed as a child for a reason: because under the age of 18 the traits are not able to be differentiated between normal stressed teenage behavior and in children younger than that, there is a high potential they will not go on to develop ASPD despite having traits of it.

There is quite a high threshold of things that need to go awry in neurological development for someone to end up with a trauma based personality disorder. ASPD in particular comes with a strong potential to avoid the traits becoming the PD if a child or honestly even a teenager is introduced to the support system they need and given reason to trust it.

And even as an adult, you can have some traits without having the disorder. I would definitely do some research, starting with but not exclusively reading the current DSM (DSM V-TR) entry on ASPD, and not just what’s posted in my bio, that’s the criteria but none of the important surrounding information in the ASPD section. That’ll go over a lot of info, and from there you wanna go through both scholarly stuff (articles & research papers - many of which will be stigmatized but it’s important to read because somewhere in there they hide some good info), and anecdotal stuff like this blog but not just this blog. Take in as much information as you can, learn about what it is and what it isn’t, and especially learn about the things that are similar to ASPD but are not ASPD. There are other disorders that look similar, but have key differences.

I suggest all this because unlike some disorders that are either easy to self diagnose (panic disorder - the main thing you need to know is if you have panic attacks, and if you have panic attacks about the fear of having a panic attack) or at least much more straightforward than self diagnosing a personality disorder. PDs are in fact some of the most complicated disorders to categorize and diagnose - even professionally - because when something is affecting every facet of someone’s personality, it’s not going to be easy to figure out what’s a symptom vs what’s situational. They usually require a long rapport with the diagnosing professional because they have to be persistent and consistent across time and situations. That means that it’s not something you can look into quickly and decide, you’ll need to keep watching for the symptoms once you know them and see if you are responding that way across the board or if something is triggering that response in only certain situations.

I can’t stop you from using that term, but I can say that being armchair diagnosed as a child is not a good way to figure out if you have something as complicated as a personality disorder. Honestly, a big reason that I say to people that they need to look at other anecdotal sources from other places too is because someone I’m very close with who has known me for over 10 years at this point and lives with me has BPD and thought I did too, like was 100% certain. In fact they directly thought I had the hyper-empathy of BPD - and so did my ex who knew me for much less time but also has BPD. Even having the disorder yourself and knowing someone for a long time doesn’t mean you can accurately armchair diagnose them. Like I said, these are complicated to diagnose.

For reference, it took me at least a year of fairly constant research (bc I have mental health as a special interest, I was researching something about ASPD or its differential diagnoses for at least a couple hours per week at that time), probably longer, to feel secure self diagnosing with ASPD. While it doesn’t need to necessarily take that long, it does take some effort to understand a disorder like this.

[thatonegaybrit]

" haha that .. lowkey sounds like you're delusiona- "

; YOU HAVE JUST REVEALED TO ME YOU ARE !!! NOT NORMAL ABOUT !!!! PEOPLE WITH DELUSIONS 1!!! GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT ABLEISM !!!!!

[steamedbuncollective]

// disordered eating TW

Can you coin a term/role for an alter who's job is to make sure the system eats/eats and it stays down? Specifically in a system with an ED? Either by doing the eating themselves, or staying in front to act as a stabilizer/encouragement? —🕰🖼 anon (claim? maybe? also no pressure to make this!)

ED SUPPRESSOR FLAG

An ED suppressor is an alter who makes sure the system is eating healthily, either by physically eating themselves or encouraging the other alters to do so.

The red, orange and yellow are all there as they stimulate the brains appetite. The lilac has a double meaning, both symbolizing ED awareness and it is placed at the bottom to show that the alter is suppressing the eating disorder.

The lilac ribbon is used as lilac ribbons are used for eating disorder awareness day.

(also, we have no issues with anons claiming sign offs! we hope you enjoy this anon.)

no credit needed to use this flag/term!

endos do not interact. make ur own flag/term.

[anti-ao3]

i know fanfiction doesn't need to be completely accurate, but i think that if you decide to write about, say, a marginalized disorder like schizophrenia, and not bother to do any research about it (nor hear from actual schizophrenic ppl) is pretty shitty.

[alarrytale]

I get using ableist language when calling out other groups of fans of HL because they are nothing more than gaslighted and unable to understand that their idols are lying to them on purpose to keep their images and narratives. But honestly I can´t help myself when it comes to H´s fakegirlfriends.

Because what are the exceptions for someone who is using someone´s closet to gain her own popularity, to get headlines in tabloids and pretend she´s living that wet dream fantasy of those who believe H is straight/bi and H is semi-god of s*x? Yes, some women related to H were better than others and watching H doing a pap walk/ wannabe organic spotting was annoying but could be much worse if they´d on purpose try for pda with H. But how would you excuse women like TS or OW who hurt not only H but Louis as well with their behaviour? If we believe H is closeted against his will, that if it was up to him, he´d much rather just stay single and "unlucky with love" than to awkwardly pretend he´s into women because big bosses at S*ny aren´t able to understand H´s much more interesting as he is rather than who he publicaly dates and even doing the TS´s method of relating his songs to the past woman-of-the-year (K*nd*ll, TS, C*m*lle, OW). What I kind of hate is that while during the 1D days he put much bigger afford against how sexualized he was and this whole womanizerTM nonsense but now he´s just playing along this game because it gives him at least some freedom to show who he really is.

So maybe I am a terrible person but I just can´t help myself with ableist language with it come to this group of people profiting of someone who´s closeted against his will no matter how mutual their stunt deal was and H agreed to everything for an exchange to do something gay.

Hi, anon!

The thing is, when you're using ableist language to hurt a celebrity, the person you're really hurting is a person with disabilities. Because you're using their disability in a derogatory manner. It's incredibly hurtful for them. It's way less hurtful for the able celebrity who you're trying to hurt, than the person with the disability you're using.

Also, not using other people's disabilities as a derogatory term to hurt able persons, doesn’t mean you can’t call them derogatory names at all. There are many unflattering comparisons and unflattering personality traits that can be used to describe someone, that are not only more accurate, but also doesn’t hurt people with disablilites.

For example you can call someone a vulture, a snake, a low-life, manipulative, inconsiderate, greedy or fake, which are all derogatory terms, but are not ableist terms.

Using derogatory terms to describe someone will of course contribute to heightened conflict level and will piss off the people who you're calling names, but at least you aren’t hurting an innoncent third party in the process and make them feel even more inferior due to their disability.

So derogatory language? Fair game. Ableist language? Nope.

[angelfacemjj]

“Be delusional” Girlies, we can do better than that, seriously........

[likeburningcoal]

I work with older people who constantly make jokes about “being too ADD to have any distractions while working” and “oh I looked at my phone while working, I’m so ADD”. You know the kind.

Meanwhile, I, who am actively looking into diagnosis for ADHD because I’m 99% sure I have it, am listening to and singing along to FOB at 1.5x speed while writing paperwork because that is sometimes the only way to stimulate my brain enough to get it to focus on said paperwork.

[t4tdanvis]

The term delulu makes me want to bite people. I know the term delusional isn’t exclusive to just people having actual delusions with the way it’s used in (for a lack of a better word) everyday talk but like still don’t make a silly/cutesy term for it. Even when it’s not someone having actual delusions, you shouldn’t think it’s funny when like,, your friend’s boyfriend treats her like shit and is very obviously cheating and she just doesn’t want to believe that he is.

Might not be the best example but I’ve seen that specific scenario SO many times w the people using delulu.

Plus you shouldn't be mislabeling regular experiences as "delusions" because delusions are a specific thing that really harms the person experiencing them. Like that person said, "you are not "delusional" you are just in love". Watering down the word portrays delusions as some cutesy fun thing when it's 100% not. Sure, some delusions can be mostly harmless, but by definition they negatively impact the person's life. They shouldn't be treated like some silly quirky thing, and definitely shouldn't have a cutesy nickname like "delulu".

[aspd-culture]

hey I have a question about aspd because I’ve been hearing mixed things. Are sociopathy and psychopathy the same thing?

CW/TW: ableist language (no worries anon, I know it wasn’t intentional)

Caught a new ask in the ask box and trying to avoid dumping brand new ones (if the poll votes to clear the box), plus this is important.

So, despite the insistence of some people, neither of those words are medical terms. Instead, they are ableist terms that some consider slurs (in a similar vein to the r slur). They are generally targeted at pwASPD and NPD with various incorrect “definitions” given.

Both of those terms are used against people with these disorders as a way of demonizing us and their most common use outside of insults is in media - fiction and non-fiction - or in court.

Some pwASPD have chosen to reclaim the word soci*path for themselves, but it still should not be used to refer to anyone who hasn’t explicitly said that is the word they prefer you use.

Plain text (including uncensored ableist term) below the cut:

CW/TW: ableist language (no worries anon, I know it wasn’t intentional)

Caught a new ask in the ask box and trying to avoid dumping brand new ones (if the poll votes to clear the box), plus this is important.

So, despite the insistence of some people, neither of those words are medical terms. Instead, they are ableist terms that some consider slurs (in a similar vein to the r slur). They are generally targeted at pwASPD and NPD with various incorrect “definitions” given.

Both of those terms are used against people with these disorders as a way of demonizing us and their most common use outside of insults is in media - fiction and non-fiction - or in court.

Some pwASPD have chosen to reclaim the word sociopath for themselves, but it still should not be used to refer to anyone who hasn’t explicitly said that is the word they prefer you use.

[themogaidragon]

I wanna collect every OCD gender there is, is there more OCD genders around?

OCDgenders Masterlist Part One

[TW abuse, sanism, obsessions, compulsions]

Xumgender: the state of never being satisfied with ones gender, no matter how well it fits, due to self-doubt or identity issues. This causes one to compulsively search and seek out something that fits even better though one will never because of one's neurotype and/or because words will never be able to describe one's gender and/or because one's gender is paradoxical. This inability to find a "one true gender" frequent causes anxiety and doubt and can even cause the label xumgender to feel imperfect to the individual. This term is exclusive to neurodivergent people. It was specifically coined with people with anxiety disorders, OCD, and OCPD in mind.

O-gender: a gender that is affected by one’s obsessions.

C-Gender: a neurogender heavily influenced or defined by one’s compulsions due to their OCD.

OC-gender: a gender that is affected by both one’s compulsions and obsessions.

OCDgender: a neurogender which can only be understood in the context of having OCD or when one's OCD greatly affects one's gender or how one experiences gender. It is not OCD as a gender, but is a gender that is so heavily influenced by OCD that one's OCD and one's experience of gender cannot be unlinked.

OCDniac: an identity that describes someone whose queer experience is affected by having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Obsecompridix: a gender related to being proud of one’s ocd and that pride affecting how their gender feels.

Obsic: A gender related to one’s obsession.

Vexillobsic: A neurogender related to one’s obsession with vexillology.

OCDBiting: a gender influenced by ones OCD and biting an ableist.

FluttershyOCDic: a gender related to Fluttershy and having OCD.

PinkieOCDpieic: a gender related to Pinkie Pie and having OCD.

Categohoarder: a genderhoarder microlabel for people who feel like their genders MUST be in some sort of order whenever they show them off (carrd.co, pronouns.page, etc.), it could be their color scheme, themes, alphabetical order or more.

Pattordean: a gender related to putting things in order or in a pattern. This can be connected to ocd compulsions and be used as a neurogender, but it doesn't have to be.

Loudheadgender: a neurogender where the noise in your head prevents you from understanding your gender to some extent. Only to be used by people who experience brain noise/ loudness in the head. So like ADHD, racing thoughts, OCD, BPD, etc.

StarlightglimOCDic: a gender related to Starlight Glimmer and having OCD.

TrixielamoonOCDic: a gender related to Trixie Lulamoon and having OCD.

OCDcompuliac: a fluid neurogender influenced by OCD compulsions in which ones gender identity changes when they speak what gender identity they have due to an OCD compulsion, whether permanently or temporarily.

PrettyBoyObsessive: a gender relating to being a Pretty Boy with OCD and breaking the stigma surrounding OCD were ableists sees you as a (ableist) threat but you having psychological facts to ruin them and their social life is your threat and you're not afraid to stand up others with stimazed disorders like NPD, AvPD, ASPD, BPD, PPD, OCPD, [etc] for an example.

OCDLOVERBOY: a neurogender influenced by a man/boy's OCD, often see as an monster and beliefs he doesn't deserve love due to his OCD due to trauma, but has found love and feels less like a monster due to his boyfriend(s)/Partner(s) loving him regardless of his OCD, and very supportive of him and understands every subtype of OCD, even POCD and loves him anyway regardless of his OCD.

ObsessiveYandere: a term for PwOCD and being a Yandere.

Ocdvictim: A gender identity influence by having OCD and being a victim.

OBSEURiA: a gender that is the embodiment of one's obsessive compulsive disorder.

OCDfreak: a gender related to having OCD and being a freak.

OCDrage: a gender related to the anger/angry symptoms of OCD.

Utapulsix: a gender related to the compulsion/having the compulsion to find, compile, and organize information.

Utafpulsix: a gender related to the compulsion/having the compulsion to find, compile, and organize information, as well as the actions themselves.

BoyCreaturaticFreak: a gender that feels infected, misunderstood, falsely framed, often see as a creepy, worn out, tired, weak, hurt, dirty, and disgusting, freak of nature, emotionless, lack of emotional empathy, feels like needles sticked in your back and barbed wire around your throat, and held down to control the person, which is all influence by ones OCD and influenced by trauma of having ones OCD be used against them to hurt them, often seen as a freak due to their OCD and society views on OCD, which one turns into being a freak into a positive thing and embrace being different, embrace being a Freak, as an act of self-love and acceptance of one's self. Deep down this gender is kind, loving, sweet, wholesome, deserving of love and care. This gender is both masculine and agender/nothing at the same time. It is also althuman. The gender is also held together by safety pins, sawing needles, hello kitty bandaids and the gender, also carries a stuffed animal wolf or a stuffed animal black cat for comfort and someone to call a best friend.

Dianeticsobsic: a gender related to being obsessed with the belief system of Dianetics.

HidingTraumgender: a gender for when ones gender are a hiding from one’s abuser, stemming from the paranoia of ones abuser, watching the user constantly, believing one's abuser would emotionally harm the user again & again, a fearing a never ending loop of emotional and mental torture, viewing ones abuser as emotionally contaminated and is paranoid regardless of anyone due to user's trauma and the user's OCD being used a sick “justification” for the trauma the user want through.

OCDtoxic: a gender related to chemically toxic OCD, OCD disolving in toxic chemicals, and/or OCD mixing with toxic substances.

OCDBEiNG: A genderabeing subtype. A gender connected to having obsessive compulsive disorder and being that of a being ; An OCDbeing.

Unrealobsic: an O-Gender related to one's obessions being based in unreality. This could be things like obsessing over the idea that one is not real. Or that one is not perceiving reality in the way it really is.

NoempaOCDic: a gender related to having OCD and little to no empathy.

Fearobsic/Phobiaobsic: an O-Gender related to one's obsessions being based upon their fears/phobias. An example could be being thalassophobic and having obsessions about the ocean. Or fearing the dark and having obsessions about it

BoyPOCDic: a gender that is a boy dealing with P-OCD.

Countiobsic/Numeralobsic: an O-Gender related to one's compulsive counting, or number-based compulsions/obsessions.

InsomniOCDgendrix: a gender influenced by ones OCD, it feels like OCD is their whole identity and gender. It feels like all it is is controlled by one's OCD. This gender feels scary, terrifying, "wrong", anxiety inducing, exhausted, and like an insomniac.

Anxiobsic: an O-Gender related to the anxiety one's obsessions causes them.

IsolateOCDic: a gender related to having OCD and never fitting in with others, feeling left out, unwanted, and alone.

[imsosocold]

Guys if you disagree with my posts there’s no need to be ableist and use slurs, especially ones than vilify already demonized groups.

[rotshop]

can someone tell me why the new cool word to say is skitzo. can someone tell me why non schizophrenics suddenly love saying they're schizoposting. can someone tell me why there arent more bmws crashing into homes and exploding.

[anti-ao3]

i just wanted to know the definition of dog whistling and...

[ID: google search result that answers the question "What does it mean when a narcissist says dog whistling?". The following text says, "Have you heard of "dog whistling?". It's when a toxic partner sets you up in public to make you look hysterical by triggering you with a word or an issue that you both know is related to you. It seemingly is innocent and unrelated to anything, but you know that it's really actually a dig to you". It's dated from September 30th , 2022, and it's actually a TikTok. /End ID]

stuff like this makes me want to abolish tiktok /half serious

[delphientropy]

friendly reminder that narcissistic abuse isnt real, no matter what you think it means

abuse isnt categorized by mental illness or personality traits, its categorized by what type of damage it does (physical, emotional, sexual, etc.)

the term narcissistic abuse was coined by a misogynistic, ableist rape apologist who believed that all people with NPD were monsters and were inherently abusive.

stop. using. the term.

and good lord to that one system whos trying to justify it by saying that its their trauma and "part of being a system." its not called narcissistic abuse. please fucking listen to the people with the disorder.

edit: sam vaknin is the person who coined the term narcissistic abuse and apparently he created it to blame his abusive tendencies on his narcissism (which im honestly not sure he even has). below is a post that details more into who he is and all of the disgusting shit hes done and claimed, do please read into it

[pluraldeepdive]

Let's Fact Check: Was MPD renamed to DID for Harmful Reasons?

(Disclaimer: This post contains descriptions of ableism and disbelief in plurality. I do not condone any hatred towards any person mentioned on this post. If you see anyone attacking them, please report them for harassment! This post was made to spread awareness, not negativity.)

In this post, we will be investigating the claim that multiple personality disorder (MPD) was renamed to dissociative identity disorder (DID) for harmful reasons.

Origins of the claim

This claim most likely originated from a (now privatized) wordpress blog post made in 2019.

Click here for an archive of the blog post.

In this post, the author is discussing a blog post they found that's written by Allen J. Frances, the chairman of an outdated edition of the DSM. After reading his blog post, they came to the conclusion that Frances renamed MPD to DID out of malicious intent towards people with MPD because his blog post states that he does not believe in MPD.

This wordpress post was later linked on Twitter, where many users began repeating the claim. As it spread across Twitter and other social media platforms, the claim has adopted several variations. Some people claim that Frances attempted to get rid of MPD entirely, some claim that he renamed it as a scheme to erase all plurality, and some claim that “DID” is an ableist or offensive diagnosis because of all of this. It seems like most of the people spreading these claims do not have DID themselves, however.

Click here for a link to an imgur folder showing examples of this claim in online plural spaces.

The post by Frances

Now, let's look at the blog post that was cited as proof that MPD was renamed to DID for harmful reasons.

Click here to read his post (TW for fakeclaiming and ableism).

This post was written in 2014. In it, Frances is expressing how he doesn’t believe in what he calls MPD. He personally adheres to the debunked skeptical models which suggest DID is created through therapeutic suggestion or is a “fad”. He talks about how he wished he could remove MPD from the DSM-IV, but couldn’t do so. The next best thing, to him, was to allow controversial statements to be injected into the manual. These statements were removed in the current edition of the DSM.

Frances does not mention anything about the diagnosis's name change.

Addressing bias & concerning behavior

First of all, it’s important to look into the author of the wordpress blog to understand how reliable their word is. The author is a median system who I found out, from the blog, is @/multi_sapphire on Twitter. She also runs the blog @/acting-nt on Tumblr, which is a fact known by many in the online community.

At the time of making her blog post, she did not identify as having DID. She is openly anti-psychiatry, as well. While I don't want to make this a big focus, this system also has a history in the plural community of being very hateful towards the DID label. I have had to make a PSA about them before for posting hatred in the DID tags (source). They are the coiner of the term "traumascum" among other things (source). Many, many PSAs have been made about her by other systems about various concerning behavior (source).

Frances’ post can be easily triggering to anyone with DID, OSDD, or plurality. It’s understandable how a system, who was already unfavorable towards psychiatry, came to think that all of the changes made to DID in the DSM-IV were done out of malicious intent. Let's investigate that next.

Addressing how the DSM is made & who coins names

For anyone who doesn't know, "DSM" stands for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is a handbook used by clinicians to diagnose mental disorders.

The DSM-IV is an outdated edition that is no longer in use. It was published in 1994 and was replaced by the DSM-5 in 2013. While Frances was the chairman of the DSM-IV, he was kicked off the taskforce and has nothing to do with the current DSM. Most of the changes he made were completely reversed in the current manual.

The DSM taskforce is run by many people. Diagnoses are divided across different work groups who receive input and data from researchers that specifically research and work with people with those disorders. Suggestions are proposed from the researchers to the work groups, who then analyze this, conduct field trials, and propose changes that should be made to the DSM (source).

While Frances oversaw the taskforce, he is not listed as a member of any work group or researcher in the DSM-IV. This means he did not come up with any of the proposed changes to the DSM-IV.

Why MPD was renamed to DID

All of the dissociative disorders were renamed at the same time! All of them, except for DPDR, were changed to have the word “dissociation” in them. Researchers explain that they proposed this change in order to make the dissociative nature of these disorders more understandable.

Psychogenic amnesia was renamed to dissociative amnesia.

Psychogenic fugue was renamed to dissociative fugue.

Multiple personality disorder was renamed to dissociative identity disorder.

Atypical dissociative disorder was renamed to dissociative disorder not otherwise specified.

When it comes to DID in particular, there are two main reasons for the shift from multiple personalities to dissociative identities. Hersen et al. states the one of these reasons is that the term 'personality' defines "the characteristic pattern of thoughts, feelings, moods, and behaviors" of the whole brain (source). This is what makes alters identities rather than personalities. According to this definition of personality, having multiple personalities would mean having multiple brains! The second reason is that the older term emphasized the alters over the dissociation (same source).

In my opinion, refocusing on the dissociation rather than the alters allows people with DID to have the full spectrum of their symptoms recognized, and helps distance plurality from disorders. Many plural systems don't view their systems as the problem. Many systems don't have DID, either. The shift in this diagnostic language has made it much easier for that distinction to be made! It's very unfortunate that false claims have been made about this, casting more stigma onto both DID and non-DID systems.

Summary

To summarize everything:

The claim that MPD was renamed to DID for harmful reasons most likely originated from a 2019 blog post.

The author of the blog post was reasonably concerned about a figure of authority being ableist. However, their own biases against the DID label likely influenced their claim that the DID label was created by said figure of authority.

In actuality, that guy did not come up with the name "DID." Researchers are the ones who did.

MPD was renamed to DID in order to make it more understandable and put an emphasis on dissociation.

All dissociative disorders were renamed along with DID to include the word "dissociation" in them.

[uhyjigftkl]

A small list of things I have seen anti endos say over the last few months.

TW for mentions of grooming, suicide / death threats, ableism, armchair diagnosing, r/fakedisordercringe, and slur usage (it is redacted to not upset anyone). If there are any triggers I failed to add, please let me know.

•Anyone diagnosed with a CDD can interact, except endos who are diagnosed. They aren't real, so their diagnosis is fake •Are you fucking [redacted]? Don't use a slur against people who do not consent to the word being directed at them. That is ableism. I'm not ableist, I'm allowed to reclaim it so thus I can use it to insult you. Stop being chronically online. •Being an endo "system" is the system equivalent of a white person doing blackface •Bullying endos / pro-endos because pseudoscience is dumb and so are they •Call us a [redacted] like you actually mean it. (directed at an endo) •I want to start my own "build an alter" blog so I can scam those dumbasses who think you can build alters •Endos are delusional and would be put in mental asylums if they told their therapists about their "system" •"Endos" are inherently ableist, so they deserve a taste of their own medicine. •Endos aren't disabled, so you can't be ableist towards them since you can't be ableist towards a nondisabled person •Endos just have undiagnosed schizophrenia, and if they got offline, their "alters" would disappear •Endos need to fucking kill themselves, they're fucking worthless pieces of shit and nobody loves them •Endogenic rhetoric is the reason people get kidnapped and tortured and killed •Genuinely hate seing pro-endo shit on my dash. I want memes and community experiences, not your bullshit propaganda •I wish I was endo so I could ctrl-alt-del these fucking loonies in here •I'm allowed to send death threats to endos because it destresses me, and it doesn't hurt anyone because endos aren't real •No real system would support endos, and any that do are being groomed and abused by endos into thinking their trauma isn't enough •r/Fakedisordercringe is bad, but I think endos need to start getting posted there more often because it'll break them out of their attention seeking delusions •Singlets need to research shit before they form their beliefs! Okay, well I'm a singlet and I did a lot of research before I became pro-endo, because I couldn't find anything that outright said its impossible. No, you're fucking lazy and your "inclusivity" is disgusting. You need to form your own beliefs, instead of falling for "endo propaganda." •Someone I used to follow became pro-endo. Can't believe I thought that fucking ableist cared about actual disabled people. •The endogenic phrase of "the future is plural" is a grooming tactic, and endos are using it to groom kids into faking a serious disorder •The future isn't plural, and anyone who thinks it is or should be should go jump off a cliff •This endo "system" made a term that is very similar to yours, so they are obviously stealing from you. Lets add that to the list of why I fucking hate endos. •We all know endos systems are 12yos with superiority complexes •Why don't endos just say they're fictionkins or that they want to roleplay instead of faking a disorder? •You are ableist, disgusting, vile, sorry excuses for humans. You are failures. You don't deserve sympathy or love. You don't deserve support. You deserve hell and suffering. - sincerely, an alter in a REAL system, what you freaks call "sysmed"

Any anti-endos still want to try and say that endos are the ableist ones?