Who We Are

[emmengard]

 We have DID, but we still take pride in our plurality. It is difficult to really take pride in a disorder. To us DID is really two things, it is the plurality and it is the ptsd (or cptsd) from the trauma. Ptsd and Cptsd are the worst.

But we love who we are! We love each other and being plural. We don't see ourselves as broken. We see ourselves as an adaptive and persevering crew that has overcome our shared troubles together. That's why we try to avoid the term traumagenic, because our trauma is not who we are. We are Adaptive. :)

And being an Adaptive system, I could even be proud of that.

But the cptsd and ptsd... ugh. Those are just an illnesses we are trying to recover from. They are the chains that are letting our past still control us today. One day we will break those chains. One day we won't be crippled by flashbacks or flooding emotions. We will overcome. And we will do it together, always!

-Ariadne of Emmengard