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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 14 y/o DD showed me a TikTok of a person with DID doing a “round Robin” taste test where all the different personalities try a new food. She asked me a few questions about DID which I didn’t know the answer to and told me that there are a lot of tweens/teens who have it and there’s a community on TikTok.

Sure enough, I did some exploring and there are dozens and dozens of young people and also adults who are “systems” and claim to have DID, with upwards of 50 different identities, from childhood trauma and I find the whole thing really disturbing. It is very clearly fake/exaggerated for most of these people. I do not know how to talk to my daughter about faking real but rare mental health conditions without being invalidating or insensitive to any of these people, whether they really have a DID diagnosis or not.

Has anyone run into anything like this? I’m at a loss.[/quote]

I wouldn’t worry about being insensitive or invalidating people you don’t know for something like this. It’s the Internet. Everything on the Internet is bullshit. Especially a platform built around people performing.[/quote]

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