Editing Dissociative identity disorder (section)

===Advocacy===

Some advocates consider DID to be a form of [[neurodiversity]], leading to advocacy in recognizing 'positive plurality' and the use of plural pronouns such as "we" and "our".<ref name="DoalMedia" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Plural Association |url=https://thepluralassociation.org/ |access-date=2020-05-05 |website=The Plural Association |language=en-US}}</ref> Advocates also challenge the necessity of integration.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tori|first=Telfer|date=11 May 2015|title=Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder?|work=Vice|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/when-multiple-personalities-are-not-a-disorder-400/|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Cheryl|first=Lavin|date=30 August 1987|title=Truddi Chase|work=The Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-08-30-8703050949-story.html|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref> Timothy Baynes argues that forcing people to undergo it as a therapeutic treatment is "seriously immoral".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bayne|first1=Timothy J.|date=1 February 2002|title=Moral Status and the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder|journal=The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy|volume=27|issue=1|pages=87–105|doi=10.1076/jmep.27.1.87.2973|pmid=11961688}}</ref>

A DID Awareness Day takes place on March 5 annually, participants displaying a multicolored awareness ribbon, based on the idea of a "''crazy quilt''."<ref name="McHugh2019">{{Cite web|last=McMaugh|first=Kate|date=2019-03-08|title=Dissociative Identities Awareness Day – ISSTD News|url=https://news.isst-d.org/dissociative-identities-awareness-day/|access-date=2020-07-24|website=isst-d.org|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Broady|first=Kathy|date=2018-03-06|title=Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Awareness Day - March 5|url=https://www.discussingdissociation.com/2018/03/dissociative-identity-disorder-awareness-day-march-5/|access-date=2020-07-24|website=Discussing Dissociation|language=en-US}}</ref>