Stumbled on someone decrying TikTok "multiplicity kids" on twitter, but not sure how I feel about this thing and there's no wikipedia article which is usually the limit of my research.

On one hand DID and OSDD are real things, though some people say it's a culture specific disorder.

On the other kids having calling themselves "we", claiming to be piloted by Harry Potter characters, real-life serial killer and Minecraft YouTubers seems to silly to not be just good clean fun.

On the third hand is you told someone thirty years ago about gender spectrum, genderfluidity, xenogenders, bi lesbians, autism spectrum, they'll probably think you're insane. Maybe there is a subclinical version of DID, like Asperger's to autism, so to speak? I dunno...

  • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]
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    3 years ago

    We have this idea that we each have a single, unified “soul” or “mind”, but what we think of as our conscious experience really contains a lot of systems that interact and sometimes conflict with each other.

    Very true, and to add to this there's a fair bit of research suggesting that our conscious awareness (in the moment, at least. Harder to design experiments for long term planning, learning, and behavior changes.) is more of an apologist for deeper neural decision-making processes, separately perceiving what we seem to be doing and creating rationalizations out of whole cloth for what we're doing and why we're doing it. I don't have references off-hand, but I'm thinking of studies on split-brain subjects (subjects who have had the main structure connecting the right and left hemispheres of the brain severed, often as a last resort procedure for severe epilepsy or sometimes via brain injury) and studies investigating brain signals that immediately precede motor behavior.

    If there’s a movement to make it more mainstream to talk about human minds like this and to develop a vocabulary for talking about ourselves that goes beyond treating people as singular, unified selves, that might be a positive thing.

    That would be a very cool and interesting result.