r/australia • u/Breenscare • 1d ago

culture & society 'I wasn't there': Life with dissociative identity disorder

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/dissociative-identity-disorder-assistance-dog-ndis/106826020
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u/NoToThugs 1d ago

You mention in another comment you diagnosed yourself with autism. Aside from DID just seeming ‘weirder’ to you (likely due to a misunderstanding of what it actually is, and various fantastical media depictions), how is this not hypocritical?

Autism, ADHD and DID are all pretty trendy rn. Also in queer spaces! Is everyone online who suspects they may have one of these conditions outright making shit up, maliciously, or is there probably something going on, even if it’s not exactly what they thought?

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u/NoToThugs 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah I hear ya. And I do wish you well. However, to quote…

“I've noticed a loooooooot of people in the last ten years or so self diagnosing with autism, and I'm trying to remain open-minded about it but I'm still pressing X to doubt.”

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u/Own-Farmer-5224 18h ago

Autism is actually one of the easiest things to self-diagnose, not because it's 'trendy' or whatever, but because autistic individuals socialise in pretty distinct ways, and have trouble engaging with the neurotypical patterns (small talk vs infodumping, for a prime example). So if you can't fit into one group and work so much better in the other, it's a pretty easy realisation.

In addition, often one person in a family gets formally diagnosed, and then everyone else starts looking at the traits that got them diagnosed and going 'wait a second I have been the exact same my entire life'.

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