DID is believing you have multiple people living inside of their system (their mind). Furries do not believe there is a cartoon character living inside of them.
The closest bridge between furry and DID is the tulpa community, which is more of an anime community generally.
>Heavens no. That would be absurd.
Absurd or not that's what DID is. DID used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder, but got renamed. A furry doesn't have multiple people living inside of them. They might RP as a character or characters, but if that is DID so is Dungeons and Dragons.
It's easy to misunderstand psychological disorders from a description, so I don't blame the confusion.
Also "having multiple personalities" is not in and of itself sufficient for a dissociative identity disorder diagnosis.
So you're approaching fractally wrong here in a way that's really quite offensive to a lot of people, and I'm afraid negative reactions are largely going to be inevitable as a result.
And, I believe that the distinction with what was mentioned is akin to, say, an actor on stage embracing or embodying the role of a character they are about to perform.
The person I was replying to stated:
>I know a significant percentage of furries where their fursona is considered a real second personality.
That's what I was referring to, not furries as a whole but the people they know.
So, eg, if DID causes memory compartmentalization, that is a disadvantage so that alone can qualify DID as a disorder.