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...
There's something I'm surprised I forgot to mention and somehow haven't thought about for years, which affected my opinion on the issue.
My best friend had a tulpa when we were in our yearly twenties way before it became a 4chan thing. One day after being kicked out of the university and before reapplying he got sort kicked in the ribs by anime girl that appeared inside his head. Since then she was a big part of his life until started appearing less and less when he settled down with a girl.
Sounds like an extremely cringe thing only the most unhinged anime nerd would come up with, right? But here is a kicker, he was one of the most well-adjusted people I've know. Intelligent, athletic, attractive, popular among both the dudes and the girls and more importantly humble, so not the type that would lie about the kind of thing. The few of us that he told about it just took it on faith...
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Does what he had come off as DID/OSDD? He only heard the voice and felt the presence, outside of very rare somatic things like feeling being pushed. The "alter" never actually "fronted" so to speak. My cursory look at the community on twitter seems to reveal that many people with headmates are rather "hearing voices" than something closer to DID...
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