The lines between registers of interaction (e.g. who you are at work, who you are at home, who you are down the pub), stage personas, and multiple personalities are extremely blurry.

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.

Not always: https://meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/ though that’s going a bit off-topic.

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.

That's a good link I've bookmarked for later. Looks interesting.

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.

Having multiple personalities or identities is not, per se, a disorder in itself. It requires dissociation and a lack of control of your personality to be a disorder.

Technically, to qualify as a psychological disorder it must cause a disadvantage to the sufferer.

So, eg, if DID causes memory compartmentalization, that is a disadvantage so that alone can qualify DID as a disorder.