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OC A Comic about DID - Part 9 [OC]

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/Neutral_Path 4d ago

How does DID affect password and account management ? (Also knowing that your body is not fully your own must be a surreal fucking feeling (unless I'm misunderstanding DID))

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u/th3b0n3z0n3 4d ago edited 4d ago

Edit: not op

I literally don't know most of my passwords. My partner keeps up with them better than me. Different alters have different body dysmorphia too. Like I've been gone for maybe 10 years so it has been a shock to me that my body is so much older and different now. But then there's one who doesn't care at all and then one who is a girl (the only one) who doesn't like how masculine it is.

I call it "the vessel" rather than my body but if I'm not thinking too much about it I'm okay just getting by, but the one girl won't leave the house sometimes.

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u/TheDarkDoctor17 4d ago

"the vessel" is some badass terminology.

Do you or any of your vessel-mates happen to be fans of Delta Rune?

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u/th3b0n3z0n3 4d ago

No! But a little bit by association, I'm into Undertale.

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u/Fit-Reputation-9983 4d ago

I do not have DID or any other diagnosed mental disorder, but I once tripped super hard and didn’t go to sleep.

Thought my trip was over the next morning cause I hadn’t really experienced anything abnormal in a while (my sense of normal was probably pretty fried at that point) so I went to get breakfast in hopes of filling myself on pancakes and going to sleep.

Anyways, smoked a fat bong and started walking. Not 5 minutes later I’m feeling real fuckin strange again.

For whatever reason I’m just walking around and my brain keeps telling me “this is my vessel. This is my vessel” in reference to myself. At this point I’m like watching myself walk and looking at my hands because it felt like I was separate from my body. Not visually separate, like I wasn’t looking at myself, no out of body stuff. But I just felt like a pilot of a meat suit and not a holistic person where the body & brain are in natural harmony - as seems to be default/normal.

So I just went back to my apartment and came down from the high. Eventually I went and got lunch instead.

Interesting that someone else has referred to their body as their vessel before. Glad I’m not alone in the strangeness! Psychedelics provided me with a lot of empathy for those who suffer from mental disorders that I did not previously hold. Reality is a fragile thing.

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u/gladiolust1 4d ago

The idea of it being cool and badass is exactly why you mostly find people pretending to have DID in this way.