Fake DID TikTokers: A Rant

My best advice would be to ignore it, maybe even try to avoid the online DID community for a while. I think the issues with the community have gotten too muddled and too focused on the "quirky" "relatable" aspects of the disorder. Misinformation is rampant and there are definitely fakers and people with psuedogenic DID out there, but I've found that focusing on other people isn't healthy. There's no hard and fast rules to tell who is faking or not. Removing myself from the larger online community and coming here to focus on my actual health was one of the best things I ever did I think

We are honestly more concerned about fakeclaming than fakers.

Honestly, it makes me very upset. It's very disappointing to see people stoop this low.

It annoys us. But doesn’t piss us off because they obviously are going through something if they feel the need to fake a serious disorder. I also just don’t understand how someone can fake something like that when we’re still in denial most of the time even with all the evidence that we most definitely have it - Lacey

It used to piss us off a lot more. Especially when all the controversies we're going on with fake-claiming. I think what changed for me though was I had a best friend I ended up telling after a lot of contemplation that I was a system (the first person I had ever told) and the first thing she did was ask me to prove it. Obviously this was a major red flag but she was my best friend so I tried to not think much of it. Later I found out she'd been laughing with other people about it behind my back because she didn't believe it was real and making posts about it on her private spam account. And that HURT. Enough so that I never wanted to tell anyone ever again and just be alone for a while. And I did that for about two years and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. What I'm trying to say is though is that it's sort of drilled in this forced empathy whenever I see people faking on TikTok. Because regardless of if they're faking or not that was some of the most awful emotional pain I'd ever been through and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. I think there are certain lines people cross, and when those lines are crossed I hope the account is deleted-- but I see a lot of witch hunting on TikTok and I know it probably hurts those people too even if they do fake it.

I completely understand I have to hide the only one who really knows about it is my partner