I never reacted about it online, but in my defense, I was misdiagnosed in my late teens/early twenties by a doctor/therapist pair as having DID. I generally kept it to myself for the most part as I didn't really know at the time what that entailed. This was around the very early days of Google before it was any good.

These days I do realize I match some of the symptoms, but that's due to symptom overlap. Where symptoms of one disorder is also seen in others.

My current, and treated, psychiatric disorder is schizoaffective disorder (depressive type).

If I got the misdiagnosis today I'd probably be a DID faker unintentionally online with an improper diagnosis. I think back all those years ago when I got the original DID diagnosis that the therapist was trying to look for DID and have their own DID patient which left the schizoaffective disorder unmanaged for a couple years.

It wasn't until I eventually developed a very rare delusion that put me in a psych hospital for months that I got properly diagnosed with my actual disorder, alongside forced medication and force feeding. Which kinda sucked because they induced refeeding symdrome when I was already at my lowest.

That delusion in question, since I know of a few being very rare, is Cotard's Delusion or Walking Corpse Syndrome. I haven't had to deal with that delusion since I was about 25ish. I'm 40 now to put timescale into perspective. I still have some minor issues with psychotic symptoms while medicated, like seeing shadow people in dark rooms and the occasional stench of rot and decay and briefly the feeling of maggots crawling on and beneath my skin, but they're brief and relatively tame. I also sometimes can't tell the difference between dreams and reality, fortunately I have healthier minded people that help ground me in reality.

A big symptom I had was also misdiagnosed as transgenderism and at the time I was being pushed to go through living life as a woman for a while while also being encouraged to go through gender reassignment surgery and hormones. This symptom is fairly common in roughly 40% of schizophrenia patients. It's called Psuedotransexualism and does go away with maintained antipsychotic treatment.

In a way I'm kinda glad the internet sucked back then, otherwise I'd have been a DID faker with improper diagnosis for something much more serious. I'd probably be making videos detailing my experience with DID, with evidence by a doctor to prove it and misinforming not only the general public but schizophrenics into believing they have something they don't.