Anonymous Coward · 7d
Dunno if you have any input on this but, for the past year I’ve been more open about my OSDD with my buddies. Recently another friend from the same group opened up about it and we ended up answering a ton of questions from others + bonding a bit over our childhood trauma. Issue is, we now have like 5 people from the same group who have suddenly declared that they have DID based off of myself and my bud’s experiences. We’ve both been like “hey, our trauma is our own, you can’t claim you have this debilitating mental illness based off of our experiences alone” but they seem to be…sensationalizing and romanticizing it regardless. I know you’re not The God Emperor of traumagenic dissociative disorders but like, how do we approach this delicately? Or is this a “let people do what they want” situation?
personally I think in situations like this you either need to make your peace with it happening by just ignoring it or not addressing it, or determining whether or not you are comfortable continuing to be friends with them
you don't even need to fakeclaim them or make any statements about what they believe they are going through. your experiences just may not be compatible and for whatever reasons you/they have changed in ways that make the friendship difficult. that's a thing that happens in relationships sometimes.
if you don't feel respected in a friendship you're allowed to just sort of taper off hanging out with them as much
