I was reading
Good Morning Monster earlier this week. It's a collection of stories about people this psychologist saw during her practice and how she feels they are heroic. Very well written, five stars.
One of the stories was about a
very intelligent young woman who had been horrificly abused be her psychopathic (the dude had a Ted Bundy fan club ffs), pedo father.
During the course of her therapy this young woman would make comments about periods of nothingness. The doctor didn’t think much of it one day until her patient showed up with no appointment, forgot where to turn to go the doctor's office, and used words/gestures/tones of voice
completely unlike usual.
Two weeks later her patient shows up for an appointment, apologizes for not having been there for a few weeks and said she had no recollection of showing up unannounced when told she had been there.
The doctor wondered if Alana had DID, this is what she determined about the disorder after much research. (Highlighted portion most relevant)
Does any of that sound like Fong? Or
any of the freaks that claim to be plural?
When pressed on the subject Alana said she did have alters that she created, but that they only played scripts in her head. But she was breaking up with her girlfriend (incidentally a trans woman, an old school one) and it got too be too much.
Even with this doctor observing the incident in question, even with all of her research, even with the patient saying she had created people to help her cope with the voice of her dad in her brain, after all that the doctor
still refused to say Alana definitely had DID. At the end of the therapy, or maybe a follow up years later when this book was getting written, Alana said she never heard from all but one of her alters anymore. Even so
no definite diagnosis.
The doctor goes on to say that Alana was the only person who
might have this disorder in her twenty-five years of practice with
thousands of patients.
If this doctor
still hedges on what happened with one patient out of thousands then it's fair to say all these retards are larping. Which we already knew, but it was nice to see an actual professional who likely experienced this irl say maybe, I dunno, possibly could be.