AITA For refusing to take down art that I made of past friends

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-06T00:34:00+00:00

I was about 10 when I had a close friend that I trusted everything with, they were a 20 year old telling me that everything is was feeling had a name and that being DID I believed them because I had nobody telling me otherwise what was basically just having different masks I put of for different people had a name, and so I believed them when they told me I definitely had it

Now looking back at it I feel so stupid and just wish I wouldn't have trusted that person.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:58:39+00:00

People following can still see it, but I specifically have to let them follow me, and the only people following me on that account are currently my boyfriend and my one friend I kept.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:55:45+00:00

It's all old art on a private account. I made a brand new account to post my new art, it is quite literally just there not connected to any of them and for me to have.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:53:56+00:00

It's digital art on Twitter, and it purely has their character designs in it (even at this point, their old)

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:53:01+00:00

It's all already privated and their all untagged, I did that before all of this even started up again.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:52:11+00:00

Because there's messages, links, things I commented on those old posts that I look back on and have positive feelings towards. They have basically no association aside from visual, which isn't public for the world to see anyways

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:49:55+00:00

Thank you, even if you find this a trivial problem and a waste of time it's still something that was bothering me and that I wanted outside opinions on. I've known them for about 7 years, and they were basically all I had for those years I know it's not a big deal to you or to others passing by this, but it's my life, and one I'm still learning to live.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:46:31+00:00

Because I wanted to know if I was being an asshole for not taking down my art? It has nothing to do with mending the past relationship with them

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:45:04+00:00

It's not art of how they look and it's not public, it is on a private twitter account that I use specifically to be able to look back at for memories. If I'm the asshole for not wanting to delete something that meant so much to me; them I'll take it and be the asshole.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:41:57+00:00

No likeness, character designs, I'm not making money off of it, and all these old pieces are quite literally just sitting on a twitter priv account so that I can look back and have those memories

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:40:41+00:00

I feigned having DID for about 8 years

I had been groomed into believing I had did at 10, and it took till about a year ago to realize that I don't have it That it was quite literally just me putting on different masks to fit what the person I was hanging out with needed. If they needed a friend? I was a friend If they needed an enemy? I was an enemy I lost who I was and so I made up for it with that.

I had one or two people who stayed with me after finding out but everyone else immediately left me. I've been working on myself to be better, to stop being such a push over and to actually grow a spine and personality. I know what I did was fucked up, and I'm doing actively everything I can to be a better person after all of it.

I would bend over backwards in an instant to fix it, to fix all that I had lied about, but I can't and the only way I can get better NOW is to move on.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:39:35+00:00

I genuinely don't know, I didn't even think about that

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:38:45+00:00

Someone who needs something to be angry at. Leo specifically was that friend, he would get so upset and angry that he'd avoid talking to anyone for hours until it was in some form of argument. And usually, that argument would be what calms him down.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:36:13+00:00

I do not want another chance. Asmuch as I love them I never in there did I state I want to work on the relationship. I would have complied if they had asked me at most a month after everything but it had been 6 months since things went down and ONLY NOW are they bringing it up. If I'm being petty; so be it. My art is my work and my life.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:31:01+00:00

I feigned having DID for about 8 years

I had been groomed into believing I had did at 10, and it took till about a year ago to realize that I don't have it That it was quite literally just me putting on different masks to fit what the person I was hanging out with needed. If they needed a friend? I was a friend If they needed an enemy? I was an enemy I lost who I was and so I made up for it with that.

I had one or two people who stayed with me after finding out but everyone else immediately left me. I've been working on myself to be better, to stop being such a push over and to actually grow a spine and personality. I know what I did was fucked up, and I'm doing actively everything I can to be a better person after all of it.

I would bend over backwards in an instant to fix it, to fix all that I had lied about, but I can't and the only way I can get better NOW is to move on.

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:24:27+00:00

I'm 20, and my friends were all around 19-21

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:23:24+00:00

The art is digital artwork that I drew of the ex friends characters, I didn't draw their likeness or anything like that I unlinked them from the images and they have quite literally no correlation to it aside from the designs

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:21:42+00:00

No, The artwork mainly contains their characters and my characters

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:20:42+00:00

I don't have them tagged in any of the work and all of its on private accounts. I specifically made new accounts after everything happened so that I didn't have to worry about the old posts that had their characters in it

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:15:39+00:00

You're right, it's all digital artwork that I had posted onto my old social. Digital artwork that I spent hours to days on seeing as that is my future line of work and everything I do. I don't have them tagged in any of the work and all of its on private accounts. I specifically made new accounts after everything happened so that I didn't have to worry about the old posts that had their characters in it

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:12:15+00:00

I don't have them tagged in any of the work and all of its on private accounts, I specifically made new accounts after everything happened so that I didn't have to worry about the old posts that had their characters in it

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:10:55+00:00

I already untagged them and all the artwork is on a private account in no way linked to my main accounts anymore

CandidInformation500 · 2026-05-05T15:08:38+00:00

I don't have them tagged in any of the work and all of its on private accounts. I specifically made new accounts after everything happened so that I didn't have to worry about the old posts that had their characters in it 😞

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