It is absolutely a spectrum, and people have questioned the DID diagnosis. It is real alright, but it is only the tip of an iceberg. There are no statistics from the new manual but going by the old one, only 40 % of the dissociatives had a specific dissociative diagnosis, and 60 % had a non specified one. Which is a failure to understand what dissociation is like. So at least half of the dissociatives do not live up to DID or any of the other specific diagnoses. Makes me wonder if there should be a specific diagnoses for others and more looking into what makes up their issues.