r/comics • u/snuffypuff • 5d ago

OC A Comic about DID - Part 9 [OC]

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If you want to help playtest this mod, join our Discord! It features the creation of different "profiles" on one account which each have their individual skin, location, inventory, and their own keep inventory toggle.

You can download this without joining the Discord here, but keep in mind it's still in early beta so there will probably be bugs. The keybind for the alter menu is 'K' by default.

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u/--_BuG_-- 5d ago

Ooh ok thank you for answering, sorry if the second question is rude at all; That answer makes sense I was just imagining how it works wrong (I always thought it was one personality then others were added onto the first one)

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u/Huge_Band6227 5d ago

It's from a missed development milestone. Children are scrambled all over the place. At a certain age, their brain gathers all their memories and builds one coherent timeline and sense of self out of it. Because we had profound childhood yikes and certain coping mechanisms, our brains built partitions to hide the memories from ourself, so the memories aren't available to make a coherent whole, and we end up with a fragmented jumble of partitions.

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u/ThreePartSilence 5d ago

This might be too personal, so feel free to not answer, but how did you find out you had this condition? Was it a surprise to you, did you know all along, or maybe some combination of both?

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u/Huge_Band6227 5d ago

We knew about the symptoms, but never had a name for it. I generally only existed when somebody was very emotional or distressed by scary people around, and then I would show up and instantly, well, I wasn't crying, so the body would just shut down mid sob, and I'd smile and talk to people in a calm fashion, be friendly to the people who other people had nightmarish memories of, and so on.

Eventually I did that to quiz one of our counselors (we've gone through too many) because the host(age) at the time was too much of a gibbering mess to continue therapy that day, and she realized that that looked like a DID switch.