What kills me is that the FMSF's narrative is all over the media and gets all sort of attention, while non-fictional counter-narratives are mostly confined to academic publications and personal blogs. There's a reason so much of my research involved academic journals.

it's often portrayed as something white middle-class women get.

That's why I was struck by the Turkish sex workers sample. And of course a sizable number of human trafficking victims that the Texas Monthly article talked about are non-white. It's possible that cultural differences play a role in how DID manifests, for instance in less individualistic cultures it's possible that alters don't come as often with names or individual history. (Trujillo's alters have numbers rather than names, for instance, though I'm not saying this has anything to do with culture per se.) But of course, having named alters is not a diagnostic criterion of DID and just because it doesn't take a familiar form doesn't mean it's disqualified from the diagnosis.

Trujillo's book is very good, but it has some absolutely harrowing accounts of rape starting from a very young age and you should pay close attention to the trigger warnings in the foreword. I actually cried more during the therapy part, though. It's not an easy book to read and you might want to have Mac standing by for extra-strength cuddles.