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you are not too much when requesting other plurals and systems to provide image identification and to translate their typing quirks. your needs are important and deserve to be met without a fuss.

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when eating breakfast upsets your stomach but not eating breakfast upsets your stomach

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unfortunately my trauma didn’t make me batman and i think that’s really unfair and i should get a refund

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I hate that thing where you can feel a new headmate wandering around the system but you can only describe how they feel, like this "new" bitch feels like spindly if that makes any sense (I know it doesn't) but I have no other way to describe it

-anon

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peers at you… ‼️‼️‼️/nf

PLURAL ASK GAME!! ⋆˙⟡

⊹ ࣪ ˖͙͘͡★ the randomest and silliest questions :3

!! this post is for everybody! u may use this regardless of origin/beliefs, just remember to follow ur own dni

🌸 - if ur system had a theme song, what would it be?

🍃 - if ur whole system got stranded on an island, who would survive the longest?

🌷 - do u have any alters with an oddly specific role/purpose?

🍏 - what’s one experience u look back on from before u knew u were a system and go “oh my god, it’s so obvious i was plural!”

🪷 - what’s ur most obscure/unusual introject source?

🍀 - what’s the weirdest thing u have overheard another alter say?

💞 - which one of ur headmates would u trust the least with the task of babysitting?

🍬 - do u have any in-sys relationships? if so, which one(s) is the most iconic/important?

🌱 - if u had to assign each of ur alters an energy drink flavor to describe them, what would they be?

🌺 - do u have any belongings that are owned by a specific alter? if so, what are they?

🍡 - which one of ur alters would u think would be the best president?

🧩 - does ur system have any nonhuman alters? if so, what’s the silliest creature u have?

💗 - do u have any rivalries in ur system? lighthearted or otherwise!

🌿 - what’s the most oddly specific front trigger u have?

🎀 - who was the first alter u discovered in ur system?

🥝 - which one of ur headmates is the most likely to participate in stupid internet trends? (e.g. cinnamon challenge, tide pod challenge, etc)

💓 - if ur system had a dance-off, who would be the champion?

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Who do you let your little alters around, and why?

hey there~! sorry for such a late response! one of us meant to answer this ask a little while back, but we ended up having to postpone it due to real life obligations!

for us, we only let little alters hang around (with supervision) with those we not only know extremely well, but has also known us as a system long enough and respects our boundaries 2!

ofc not everyone will agree, but if the majority of our protectors give the go, then we’ll try introducing things kinda slowly, and we’ll slowly expose them more!

generally we don’t rlly let our littles interact with others without supervision tho, and absolutely not around strangers, esp on the internet!

hope this answers ur question!

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Hey fuckers, I'm one of the few persecutors who are actually allowed outside, and boy are our headmates ashamed of us. Alas, we still get some time, albeit quite limited to by our extremely sensitive system, but thus- I raise my hand. I am one of many persecutors, most of which who are locked away and shamed for existing. It's quite ironic, honestly.

not enough unapologetic persecutors on here. wonder if that's because of shame or limitations by their hosts.

let's get this post maintagged. like if you're a persecutor or smth silly like that. let's see a show of hands of how many of us are actually allowed out front -🩷

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•The experiences of alterhumans of color get almost zero representation in the wider alterhuman community and that's really something that needs to change. This sounds like one of those pandering posts, though it really is not. My experience as an indigenous otherkind identifying individual is vastly different than the experiences of white alterhumans, due to my connection with my indigenous culture and because of my involvement in irl indigenous spaces, though documentation of experiences like mine are practically non-existent in the alterhuman community. Essays and discussions of non-white otherkin experiences often get no traction or are just buried between tons of other posts. This, coupled with the fact that mostly white spaces can sometimes be intimidating for people of color (myself included!) to talk about non-white experiences in, presents a serious problem. Being an ally to alterhumans of color often stops when it's personally inconvenient for someone, and that gets absolutely exhausting to deal with.

•Indigenous alterhumans are so fragmented across the alterhuman community, for example. There is almost nothing in indigenous otherkin tags, either because our experiences aren't seen or because ignorant people have forced us into silence. We don't have our own spaces, we don't get to discuss our experiences without a bodily white person in the community saying something like "I'm 1/10th cherokee, ya bro I feel you there". Even talking about discrimination we face can get us into an argument if we don't phrase ourself in a perfect way. Indigenous alterhumans being so fragmented across the alterhuman community is part of why I'm starting a digital powwow for indigenous alterhumans to share their experiences, though I don't want to be the only one sharing my experiences with being indigenous and otherkin. I really want this community to get to a point where indigenous alterhumans feel safe to talk about their experiences without fear of judgement or the fear of facing ignorance. I want to see panels about the experiences of alterhumans of color other than the ones I've hosted myself, our experiences are important to be heard in the community!

•In spite of being minorities in our own community and in spite of everything else though, I really do want to encourage my fellow alterhumans of color to share their unique experiences with the community. Our voices deserve to be heard and appreciated, even if we are so fragmented across the community. If you do face ignorance from anyone, try not to let it stop you from sharing your experiences and expressing yourself. I really want to see more essays from alterhumans of color, I want to see indigenous alterhuman experiences being brought into the spotlight, it's even important to discuss the challenges of feeling alone in a mostly white community. I mean hell, there's only one other indigenous maya person I know throughout the entire alterhuman community. Try not to let ignorance or fear discourage you from being your authentic self in this community. We shouldn't be suppressed nor fragmented in our own communities!

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As someone who has consistently been threatened, belittled, and been told directly to my face that I am psychotic, delusional, and an insult to ‘people who actually have DID’, including those I’ve confided into who are in the medical field, I agree that it is absolutely disgusting to see.

I am a person who cannot receive the help I need, otherwise I will be threatened and mocked and hurt by the people who I am meant to call my family, and it is gross how much I’ve gone from being open about my experiences to being terrified to even utter anything about plurality near anyone, or, hell, even reading literature on the topic!

Even if you do get a competent psychologist who believes you, they want to make you ‘normal again’. In my experience, I have only met those who couldn’t give a flying shit about anyone in our system, actively shaming alters who won’t cooperate or think differently which has only caused their actions and mental state to worsen, and could care less about what we feel, because we just need to be ‘fixed’, treated like an object and tossed around until they eventually find the solution. And if they don’t, they toss us aside and bury the topic six feet below the ground and never acknowledge it again.

Blatant and normalized pluralphobia has always disgusted me, and it’s even more disgusting how accepted and widespread it is- even expected to some extent, and yet those who are plural are ‘ableist’ for not wanting to get better, even if plurality has made their lives better or when they’re actively pushing us away from the help we need. They don’t want to help us, they want us to be normal.

Sometimes I want to use this blog to talk about pluralphobia but like. Where do I even begin.

Almost every system I've ever talked to has at least one story about being mocked/shamed/hated or worse for their plural traits. So many of us deal with those we're close to treating us like serial killers in waiting due to how media portrays us. Fandom spaces treat us like hypotheticals and act disgusted when you tell them their "totally Weird™ and Random™ prompt" is some people's lived reality. Medical professionals dehumanize us and marginalized communities follow in their footsteps to deny us any language or space to talk about ourselves, because how dare we say we're similar to them, how dare we treat our individual selves as individuals and not party tricks that need to be put away when we are having Serious Discussions. People will claim to support us, but in order to support us, they simply must insult us, fakeclaim us, send us gore and threats and suicide bait, threaten to make false reports of tax fraud against us (yes, this is a real thing that happened to me once), openly wish for our deaths, use any and every excuse they can to delegitimize us, compare us to slave owners and Nazis, demonize the tools we made for ourselves while using them for themselves or even claiming credit for their creation, mock our terminology, run us off emergency hotlines, even get us institutionalized – don't you know that's what "support" looks like, you silly little blogger that we will spin into either a helpless, manipulated child that must publicly admit every trauma they've ever endured to justify their existence online, or an evil, manipulative bigot that denies the latest science (no matter what those articles actually say), depending on whatever suits our latest narrative?

I know plurals personally who have had to choose between being open + receiving help they need... and remaining housed. Remaining fed. Remaining safe. And we can't even point out that a character is plural representation because then people clamber over each other about how plurality in media is never anything more than a metaphor – unless, of course, it's from a horror franchise. Then, at least, we might get an admission that they're sorta almost similar to DID, except totally not, so don't worry about it, there's nothing more to see here.

Where do you even begin when there's so much to talk about and yet just calling pluralphobia "systemic" causes people to start spitting out denials and dismissals and erasure at the speed of light?

I am an optimist because I have to be but oh my gosh it is fucking hard to be sometimes.

(Not looking for cheering up on this post. Please keep any reblogs on-topic regarding pluralphobia and erasure.)

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tw: implied discrimination, internal discourse, emotional abuse(?)

hearing another headmate shaming u for existing hurts a lot bc we’re supposed to be working together. just bc u and me don’t share the same views doesn’t make it ok for u to talk behind my back and tell the ppl around u that u hate me 4 being alive.

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Taken from reddit

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i dont get it when people get mad at systems being happy or talking about mundane or silly parts of plurality. that doesnt discount the difficulties (and yes, it can cause difficulties even if your plurality wasnt caused by trauma) and some people just dont like talking about their issues online to a bunch of strangers. just because someone doesnt constantly talk about their suffering doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

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WAIT BECAUSE WHY DID I JUST REALIZE THAT SIMPLY PLURAL HAS THAT LOGO BECAUSE ITS AN & MEANING AND. THATS SO COOL WHAT??

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:-)

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trying to unlearn misinfo and beliefs brought upon us from our abusers is by far one of the hardest things that we’ve ever had to do for our recovery, but we’re progressing.

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UPDATE ON THE CRUSH SITCH????

HAHAHA, yeah, still going strong. been working up the courage to confess n such, trying to still figure out if they like me back and all things. also wanting to make sure we’re both ready for a relationship because that’s super important!

trying my best to learn about them and both pros and cons will come along with them and how i can help resolve things or support them in either case! because hey, we aren’t pissed to be friends for awhile longer, getting to know them a bit more before finally coming to the conclusion whether it’s just infatuation or genuine love is always great! :)

so id say it’s going pretty well, actually. thanks for the ask!