This is okay, but I have a couple of issues with it. The first is that MPD/DID is the fracturing of the child's personality to protect her/himself from abuse. The second is that the 90s spread of MPD is not the same as the trans social contagion of the last decade. Similarly to bulimia when that was given a name, magazines and the like reporting on this new disorder was what caused it to spread, as a semantic contagion. Social contagion as we've seen among trans-identifying individuals is the spread between friend groups, and tends to predominantly affect teenaged girls.
This is okay, but I have a couple of issues with it. The first is that MPD/DID is the fracturing of the child's personality to protect her/himself from abuse. The second is that the 90s spread of MPD is not the same as the trans social contagion of the last decade. Similarly to bulimia when that was given a name, magazines and the like reporting on this new disorder was what caused it to spread, as a semantic contagion. Social contagion as we've seen among trans-identifying individuals is the spread between friend groups, and tends to predominantly affect teenaged girls.