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A similar one I just became aware of is Dissociative Identity Disorder, or multiple personality disorder. There seems to be a huge surge of people doing TikToks etc showing themselves going through identity changes (often "rapid switching"), some with hundreds of thousands or millions of views and seemingly a lot of supporters. There's a whole huge sort of jargon/ontology to this intersecting with other ideas and people identify as a "system" e.g:

Systems, Collectives, and/or Plurals are those who experience being more than one entity in one physical body [1]. Systems are under the neurodivergent umbrella, and are not inherently LGBT+, but being plural can impact sexuality, romantic orientation, attraction, identities, and/or gender (such as with systemfluid). Systems can also commonly intersect with LGBT+ experiences[2]. The experiences may overlap to the point of ones queer identities being a large part of headmates, such as within queergenic systems.

I am not quite sure what to make of all this, but we live in interesting times.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rapid+switching

https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/System

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dissociative-identity-disor...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-did-influencers-of...

parent themgt 5 years ago

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