u/InfamousDig5189

I've looked into the disorder, at people actually disgnosed, looked at her behavior and what she posts, and I'm like 99% sure she doesn't have it. She hasn't shown any symptoms, no amnesia and no changes in personality. She's always present as herself. She's supposedly got 20+ "alters" which are all seperate completely different people. Almost all of them are fictional characters from media she's consumed within the last couple of years, mostly roblox characters and a couple cartoon characters. She also says that she herself is one of these characters, that she's a "fictionkin". She put them all on this website called pronouns cc. They all have little descriptions explaining their personality and pronouns. I also am 100% sure she's never experienced any severe trauma which is a requirement for the disorder to form. I'm her older sister, I grew up right next to her. She never went somewhere unsupervised where someone could've done anything to her. My childhood was 100% worse than hers ever was because mom and dad suddenly straightened out their parenting "for the last kid because she's the baby" but I still haven't experienced anything nearly severe enough to cause DID to form so I know she hasn't. She never got spanked, yelled at, insulted, none of it. I don't know what I should do, or if I should even do anything about it. She's even asked mom and dad via a note with a cutesy doodle in it to see a therapist because she "has DID". I have no idea how to approach her about this because she's so sensitive and will cry if you just calmly tell her that something she did was wrong, she'll even cry if you tell her she needs to do something and she doesn't want to do it.

TW for self harm mentioned.

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I need opinions/help with my little sister's situation. I am 20F and my sister is 14. Yes i struggled with self harm myself, for several years, I understand doing it when you're hurting. I've seen some cuts on her legs and arms. It seems like it started recently, but she immediately had the fresh cuts out in the open in front of family and in public. They were in easily coverable spots, upper thighs and arms, but it seems she intentionally wore short shorts and sleeves so they'd be visible. When we had an outing for our older sister's birthday at a restaurant, I watched her change out of clothes that covered them and were perfectly suitable for the weather into clothes that showed them. This made me take a look at her social media accounts, and it looks like she reposts/posts things that kind of normalize/romanticize self harm, which is making me thing she's doing it for some sort of trend. She reposts things about having trauma as well, but I know she doesn't have any. I only moved out a few months ago, and before that we were practically always together so I would've known if something happened to her. She also reposts about having trauma from parents, which I also know firsthand that she doesn't have. I probably do because they were kind of shitty parents, I've been yelled at and insulted and spanked and hit many times. But not her, they flipped a switch and parented her different, they wanted to "do it right because she's the last kid". She got proper, emotionally available parents. Never spanked or insulted or yelled at. She was even spoiled a bit, I'd get in trouble often for getting upset at her when she broke my things, she could "do no wrong". To me, it looks like she's trying to cosplay being mentally ill or something. She also has a profile on this website called pronouns cc, stating she "has DID" and she has more than 20 "alters" listed on there. Almost all of them are fictional characters. I did some looking at the disorder, and I know for a fact she doesn't have it. She hasn't gone through a bad enough trauma to form alters, nor does DID even typically present in this way with a bunch of seperate whole identities, nor have I ever observed her behaving any differently or being concerned about forgetting anything. I don't know how to talk to her, I don't know what to do, I don't know how to address these issues. I don't know anything that could be contributing to her "mental illness" besides just consuming that kind of media online, she's done only online school for the last few years and doesn't have friends that I know of unless she's secretly talking to people online. I literally can't think of any reason she'd have mental illness like this besides her seeing it online and wanting to have it.