that kind of thing really upsets me too.

i was questioning that diagnosis myself for a few years and went back and forth about it but didn't flaunt it or talk about it much with many people (and no one in person that i recall). it was terrifying and confusing to me, and i just thought i was making it all up and was just crazy. but then i did get a confirmed diagnosis. i just had a lot of stuff to go on to come to the conclusion on my own before an actual diagnosis but definitely didn't want to make a circus act out of it.

what also upsets me though is people who think they have something and others go along with it and assume it is what they have instead of telling them to seek professional help and/or letting them know that things can look similar and be any number of things. i see it a lot on mental health forums/chats.

but yes, the ones who outright fake things irritate me a lot.

the other thing is jokes people make. i have teen nieces, and one posted something on FB about multiple personalities and some joke about it. their mother doesn't know i have DID, so i wasn't about to say something about it but didn't find it amusing at all. i let it slide just because they are teens, and i know they don't have the capacity to understand the impact of things like that. their brother also once years ago joked about self harm, and he got in crap for it (by my stepdad), so i think that set him straight about that.

it is hard at times to not get upset about things like that. we are the ones who have to live with it all everyday, and it's not often fun or funny and is definitely not easy at all.

and DID is something that is still so misunderstood. even more is the spectrum of it which can make things confusing as well. and having jokes made about it or people thinking it's fun to pretend to have it is just so ignorant.