whiteraven
MyPTSD Pro
Ok, I am looking for ideas or suggestions for explaining DID/fragmented selves to people without actually saying it's DID.
Backstory: I am going to be doing a thing at church in the near future (I am a member of the UU and pagan), a kind of "membership moment" - why I became a member. I may end up declining (or just lying), but I really would like to speak as close to the truth as I can. I don't want to reveal a history of DID because some other folks don't know about it.
The DID is directly related to my joining this church. We had a bit of a spiritual crisis, where one wanted to convert to Judaism and one wanted to covert to Catholicism, so I looked for a place that would accept all of us. I found the UU and, surprisingly, everyone was in agreement. When I am at church, I go by a name that includes us all, our system name. It works; the name is pagan-ish, and when people talk to me, they are talking to all of us, so it didn't matter who showed up.
I get LOTS of questions about the name, and my go-to is either "I'll tell you that story sometime," or "It's a pagan thing." Neither of which answer the question.
So, how can I be true to the story and NOT explicitly reveal the diagnosis?
Backstory: I am going to be doing a thing at church in the near future (I am a member of the UU and pagan), a kind of "membership moment" - why I became a member. I may end up declining (or just lying), but I really would like to speak as close to the truth as I can. I don't want to reveal a history of DID because some other folks don't know about it.
The DID is directly related to my joining this church. We had a bit of a spiritual crisis, where one wanted to convert to Judaism and one wanted to covert to Catholicism, so I looked for a place that would accept all of us. I found the UU and, surprisingly, everyone was in agreement. When I am at church, I go by a name that includes us all, our system name. It works; the name is pagan-ish, and when people talk to me, they are talking to all of us, so it didn't matter who showed up.
I get LOTS of questions about the name, and my go-to is either "I'll tell you that story sometime," or "It's a pagan thing." Neither of which answer the question.
So, how can I be true to the story and NOT explicitly reveal the diagnosis?