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"It's all crackpot nonsense" isn't a very good argument when it comes to the human brain, now is it? That sounds like the same class of garbage argument that tr

"It's all crackpot nonsense" isn't a very good argument when it comes to the human brain, now is it? That sounds like the same class of garbage argument that transphobes use to claim trans people aren't real. You can call it whatever you want, but DID is indeed recognized in the DSM-5 and fits the OP story, and the disorder vs neurodiversity argument is largely tangential to the question of whether the condition exists at all, which it clearly does. "Science" in general has a terrible track record when it comes to the human brain, because we still have no idea how most of it works and you can't exactly attach a JTAG debugger to someone's head. So saying psychological conditions "aren't science" is unscientific, because a proper scientist in the field would accept the limitations of the field, and be open to consistent phenomena (which telepathy isn't with the hard sciences, but multiplicity is).

tsimionescu 6y ago
> DID is indeed recognized in the DSM-5 and fits the OP story I'm not sure that it fits the OP story, though, at least at is told. As far as I understand, DID would be recognizable to others, it would not be purely perceived as a hallucination by the patient. Even if she were not aware of this, her husband or others around her would have reported behavioral changes, presumably. Otherwise, I tend to agree with what you are saying.
- marcan_42 6y ago
  The thing is fitting psychological conditions into neat little boxes is just a convenient diagnosis mechanism; human brains don't have on/off switches for different conditions, and actual presentations vary. So it's entirely reasonable that her behavioral changes (which could be as minor as looking up certain things on the internet) were not noticeable to others.