I have DID. Most people with complex dissociative disorders don’t use we/us unless in a very safe and understanding environment because of the sheer amount of ignorance and ableist sentiment surrounding our disorder.

yeah this is a totally fair point.

Even then some people don’t like to and most of the time people switch back and forth using “I” for what that one alter/part did and “we” for something many or all did.

yeah, I'm familiar, having lived with someone who has DID. I just didn't want this discussion to become "we/us pronouns are invalid", because they're not. they're just first-person.

And yeah I agree it would cause confusion to add them. Especially because we don’t want to equate being trans with having a mental illness.

honestly, after having a number of people bring this comparison up to me - bring it. everyone deserves to have their humanity respected, people with mental illnesses (as constructed as that category is) included. I'm deeply tired of the idea that mental illness is a reason any of us even need to entertain as for why a cis person might justify stripping us of our identities.

to be completely clear, my objection to we/us as flaired pronouns is not that DID is classified as a mental illness - it's that I don't think we should teach cis people that pronoun flairs are okay to ignore because there's a possibility that they might not be intended for use as references.