I feel I need to say something...

I live with DID. I've been quite judged in my life on many levels. I don't deal with "judgments" well today, and try with everything I have not to judge others, or their experience. If I can believe my own experiences, certainly I can believe that others can have just as "different and wild" an experience...if not the same. My truths aren't necessarily the same as others... I try to relate, and pick out any relation...not further separate my own experience. That's a lonely place to be in.

It makes me sad that survivors of abuse have their realities questioned and continue to have to fight for validation. Where, and when, does it end? It should end here...in this forum. This should be a place of no judgment, or response to judgment; a place of acceptance. Survival, in the ways that we had to, is very creative and individualized.

Let's please remember to be accepting. If we feel that we can't be, then don't respond, and please don't judge what you don't experience or understand. It doesn't mean it's not real for the person posting. It really can be that simple.

Let's rise above and share the wonderment of survival against all odds. Let's please stick with posting that brings us together, not further separates. We've dealt with too much of that in our lives. Let's concentrate on our similarities and learning more.

With much love and respect to all who survived and did whatever they had to to do it,

KD