We agree... exploring our system and enjoying our plurality allowed it to develop into a very safe, loving, and controlled system—we embraced and welcomed everything that we needed in order to survive and be happy as individuals.
We strive to become as individual as possible... but would never leave the others and our system. We want to be distinct, but not separate. So becoming separate bodies altogether or fully fusing are both things that we don't want. We want this happy medium.
We don't even want to integrate. We keep our dissociative barriers because they make us feel more like individuals; like the memories we make are ours alone, and we have private lives, even from each other, even though it also makes up one shared life. We are comfortable with this because we make it into something calming and comforting, rather than an obstacle to be worked around.
Do we have DID, the disorder? Absolutely, yes... but we didn't even know it was a disorder for years because it feels so much more like self-exploration of identity (or identities, as it may be), similar to how Logan became otherkin shortly before we became plural.
And bad things have happened to and within our system, of course... disordered things have happened that caused us issues... but it's worth it for the plurality and for our own lives, we wouldn't ever want to give it up. We just love who we are too much... we are exactly who we want to be.
The bad symptoms are signs of the disorder, but they make us complete. We wouldn't be us if we didn't have forced switches, dormancy, or dissociation. If anything, losing those things would make us miss them.
Not everyone goes quite as far as we do, but we're also disappointed that more people don't recognize this. Plurality can be very positive, just like being otherkin or transgender... it's all so related!