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i just don't think that people should have to disclose their deepest and most life-ruining traumas as a requirement to write about sensitive topics

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being plural is weird. youll come out one way and be super confident in it and then realize youre actually like 50 people and well "im trans" is usually an easier pill for people to swallow then "i am several people of varying identities, here's a glossary of words you need to know" so... well i mean. hey. being trans is also a known reason to dislike being reffered to with your legal name and not liking your body or whatever... so i guess it worked out. sorta

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We sharing anaesthetic stories?? I had to have dental surgery when i was in middle school.

According to my mom and sister the very first thing i did upon waking up was BOLT upright and proceed to try and shove my ENTIRE fist in my mouth as fast as possible.

I had to be physically stopped, and i proceeded to sob my eyes out for the next 20 minutes. Somehow, i didnt damage anything 🤣

sorry that imagery is so vivid i just..

?????LOL

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had the random thought of "what if mcgucket got dental surgery" (as one does) and immediately pictured this

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Hoping off the last ninja turtle one, fictive culture is having multiple of the same character in your head but different iterations, shout out to my homies Raphael from the 1987, 2012, and 2018 shows

Post being referenced ^

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Fictive culture is being tired of getting people acting like they can flirt with you or talk about canon events as if it's all a joke or you're a toy to them. I'm [character] yeah but I'm not for your entertainment.

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I've got the easy-going, go-with-the-flow mentality, best suited for Nature. And we've got the angry scared Resist Fight Resist Fuck the Oppressors Fight Resist RESIST- mentality, best suited for Bad Societal Systems. And we've got the rigid Must Follow through Rules or I and the World Will Explode mentality, best suited for Good-Neutral Societal Systems.

I love you mentalities that got me through life. I love you egos that led me through strife. I love you parts of me that I kept locked away. I love you parts of me that see light everyday.

I love you apathy, for you've let me bear life. I love you passion, for you've made life worth it. I love you silence, for in you I can hear. I love you music, for you make life clear. I love you somberness, for you've given me compassion. I love you joy, for you to make life worth living.

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People tend to forget the human mind is complicated and some people experience pluraity for other reasons (eg neurodivergency, spiritual practices).

I, for one, am very prone to being detached from the world from constant escapism and daydreaming. And I HAVE technically “created” people in my head before when I channeled people from my DR (reality shifting things). I also tend to really get into personas I made online, and was also fictionkin.

As such, it created this weird lapse in my head where I didn’t I identify with the body I was inhabiting sometimes. And though I was singlet, I was pretty much capable enough of voluntarily making a new alter ego in my head with a mind of its own.

I can’t say it was from trauma. Though, I can’t deny that it is there.

So uh, yeah. Sometimes plurality doesn’t really come from trauma. Sometimes it just happened that way. Normalise that.

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Absolutely ice cold take that is still somehow, somewhere controversial:

People with Tourette’s deserve to be able to go to movie theatres, libraries, church and any other place where you’re expected to be quiet.

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Fakeclaimers: so you’re going to need to fit in this tiny box.

Me: there is no way my fat ass is fitting in that tiny box.

Fakeclaimers: well, all real systems would be able to fit into that tiny box so you must not be a valid system.

Me: no, it’s just your idea of systemhood is very cut off because you have yet to accept that plurality comes in all different shapes and sizes.

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labelling yourself as system is the internet equivalent to wearing a 'kick me' sign because ableists don't know or care about the difference between "real" and "fake" system when "degenerate" suits us all just as well in their eyes

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When you find the most relatable-yet-funny post about DID and then realize it's made by an anti endo

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no friendship like a New Guy going through The Horrors™️ for the first time and the alter who’s experienced it all

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I present to you: the Endo Dragon

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btw 'syscourse' and plural infighting isn't accomplishing anything. back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the only communities and resources for plurals that were widely available were for and by non-traumagenic systems. the only people who were advocating for normalizing and accepting plurality on a large scale were non-traumagenic systems. if you did research into plurality 10 - 15 years ago, most of the results that came up would have been experiences written by spiritual and natural plurals.

many people at the time were expressing their dislike of forcing every single plural to identify as if they had trauma- many found this insulting to themselves, and rightfully so! no one should be forced to identify in a way they don't agree with just to rightfully be a part of a community they already occupy. this obsession with "you can only be plural if you have trauma" has only come about extremely recently. i found out about plurality through the otherkin community. i was actually told about DID by someone in the spiritual plurality community. people don't seem to understand that most non-traumagenic systems have respect for traumagenic systems and don't gatekeep their spaces to prevent us from entering.

older plural spaces on the web like healthymultiplicity accepted all plurals. the goal of the community was to show that you can live as plural and not have it be a tragedy or something to "fix". if anything, folks with dissociative disorders owe a LOT to non-traumagenic systems for pushing to normalize plurality without implying that we HAVE to integrate our headmates and try to stop being plural. a huge part of the early online plural community was there to push that plurals can and do live happy lives and shouldn't view their plurality as a bad thing

it's not going to make singlet society see us in a better light. it's not going to get people to understand plurality better. it's not going to get us better mental health resources. it's not going to improve the quality of care for dissociative and traumagenic systems. all you're doing is bullying someone else that you don't understand simply because you don't agree with them.

you're not going to recover from your trauma or understand your own plurality better by denying the existence of other types of plurality. you're not "making the community safer" by gatekeeping. telling other people how their brains work is policing their identities. whether or not you want to accept it, if you forcefully kick endos out of plural spaces, you are the cop you claim to hate.

fighting with people on your own team will never net you a victory. to every other dissociative and traumagenic system: endos are on your side. you are wearing the same jersey. you are made of the same flesh and blood. enough. come together to share your similarities instead of fighting over differences. celebrate the diversity that plurality offers. don't take someone else's identity personally. someone can share the space with you without having to match exactly how you identify. diversity is what makes a community thrive.