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I think part of me got the idea from doing past research on youth in foster care. Rarely would any be screened for childhood DID, though screenings for dissociation are available for some jurisdictions, I'm sure.
If justice was served to youth who were removed from their abusive homes, and if youth in foster care received therapy, then maybe their chances of getting DID decreased (or at least their stages of development were corrected in time to reduce and/or decrease DID, but maybe not dissociation). It's just a thought.
There are many adult survivors of childhood maltreatment who were never in the child welfare/foster care system, which means that we never received justice for the parental crimes committed against us, we never received the treatment we needed or we never received the proper treatment we needed in mental health, we were trapped in a life of continuous traumatic stress, and our development comprised many stages of trauma that infiltrated our growing brains.
When I consider my paternal half-siblings (same father, different mothers), they were all involved in either foster care or adoption. My father was unfit, and so he should have been unfit with my sister and I (but my parents evaded child welfare somehow, didn't get my social security card until I was 2 years old, which the SSA confirmed with me). I wound up growing up with a life of pain, but there were many times my father was good, too. It's so confusing. Still, the majority of my half-siblings have PTSD or other related illnesses, save two who were given up for adoption at birth and wound up being without any mental disorders, which says something AGAINST heredity when it comes to trauma-related disorders being caused by trauma (and without the trauma, no disorders would ever have been present - at least not from childhood). And one of my dad's children who were adopted with his sister (they're twins) was in the Army - no PTSD from service either. I swear, my entire siblings could be studied (I have 16 total in all, plus me and my sister, which makes 18), and I wound up being the most defective. I'm also the only female in my family who ever enlisted in the military, and the only person in my family to enlist in the Marines (everyone else - males only - in my family is either Air Force or Army).
And I'm the only one with DID, with maybe the exception of a half-sibling (my dad's first child), who passed away from unknown causes in her 60s. She spent the most time with our father, apart from my sister and me. She visited us when I was 13 years old, and she seemed to switch personalities, but it was hard to tell. I had only met her once, and we only hung out for a day. If anyone else had multiple personalities, it would have been her.
I just don't understand why I was the only one. My only guess is (a) the silence and (b) the lack of justice that children receive when being removed - albeit traumatically separated - from their home of origin.
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