Polyfragmented Questions

[clickclick4]

(05-05-2019, 06:49 AM)nats Wrote: hi clickclick4, what you describe seems a lot like our internal experience. we would consider ourselves polyfragmented based on our understanding of it, but never found a proper DID expert who could dx definitively given it's even more poorly understood than dissociation. so, perhaps just take it fwiw. there are definitely autistic traits in FOO, with at least one person formally dx'd on the spectrum, so perhaps there is some connection between autism and more complex DID traits. interesting.

Oh, thank you for the info, nats. I think we took so long to consider that we might be polyfragmented because we didn't think that it was possible to be polyfragmented and have continuous memory. We felt like, if we had more than 25 alters who could switch out, and they didn't share a memory, we would definitely not be able to function as well as we do.

I think that, due to the way autistic brains process trauma, we are more likely to have trauma related disorders in general, not just limited to dissociative disorders. I don't think a non-autistic kid would have developed OSDD or DID in my situation, even if they already had dissociative tendencies.

I also feel like autistic kids are less likely to get the support they need to process their trauma, because there's been very little research on how we recover from trauma, and most adults don't even know how much easier it is for an autistic kid to get traumatised, even by something that seems small. It makes me wonder how much of the DSM criteria for autism is actually for autism, and how much of it just describes how autistic people react to trauma. Because most of us are traumatised. It's pretty much impossible to avoid.