So my fiance knows my diagnosis, this thread is a spinoff from another thread in the abuse forum but i was hoping to get advice from those with DID on here... so my fiance knows about my DID but i think im explaining it wrong or something. He doesnt understand it. His experience with memtal illness is his ADHD and his grandpas mania, thats it. And the only abuse he's encountered is on tv or the news. So i try to explain DID and why i was given the diagnosis but i must be doing it wrong. He says i just think too much, that its normal not to remember everything. I try to explain its not remembering thats the problem its blacking out, but he doesnt get it. He just doesnt understand the diagnosis and basically believes its what they say it is in the movies.
any advice on how to help him understand this? Anyone have any success on explaining it to someone else and they didnt think you were crazy?