18 | Hindsight | 5/23/26
This post will delve into some heavy subject matter. If you are easily triggered by mentions of sexual harassment/assault, please skip this. It's not my intention to make anyone uncomfortable, merely to express my own experiences in an outlet that is helpful for me. Back in September of 2021, when I was 15 years old, I started dating someone online. I will refer to them as "SO" for simplicity. They were 16, roughly six months older than me. We were both around the same mental maturity. Something I did not know about at the time was that, a fact that I would discover later, I had OSDD/DID. In simple terms, this means I have multiple distinct personalities with their own preferences and memories. It's not easy to know about something like DID at a young age. It has even taken some people 40-60 years to discover it. Something I have learned about DID is that separation in preferences means that dating becomes HARD, if not straight-up impossible. As far as I remember, th...