#nonverbal alter discourse

[syscourse-confessions]

"If a headmate has an experience the body doesn't, then that's based on what the brain knows of it." if a headmate cannot speak no matter how hard they try, and they struggle with formulating words and are simply not verbal at all then what other words should they use besides "non verbal"?

of course nonverbal headmate experiences are going to be different than bodily nonverbal singlets, and a system with only one nonverbal headmate is going to experience something different than a system who has many or all nonverbal headmates / experiences a physical condition that causes the nonverbal-nature, but like…

that does not invalidate the fact that the headmate cannot speak, and trying to force them to speak or take away the mots known word that means "cannot speak verbally / with their mouth" just feels weird.

also, to say that people shouldn't use those words but not give alternatives is frustrating. what other terms are there for nonverbal headmates to use?

(also it feels weird to say that nonverbal experiences are exclusively a body thing, as there's a lot of conditions (physical and mental) that may affect verbality, and i would not be shocked if plurality (especially DID) was one of them)

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[sophieinwonderland]

u have a v distinct way of doing things and i am v aware of it so i play by ur methods. i will take this excessively diplomatically so no one can possibly misconstrue my words

i made the original post ab this whole thing. in spite of having been labeled as anti endo (and a singlet for some reason) i’m not rly. i have been involved in the plural community long before my DID dx and my last bf was a veritbonder. i have seen the endo community from the inside and don’t have issues w it.

my problem is the disingenuous nature of many syscoursers, and you are not excluded from this. i could do the same thing as you have done and explain why i think PNES should just be called regular seizures and they’re exactly the same now. there are many sources where they have been called seizures for years and years. but language changes, and i know you know this. it is one of your whole arguments as to why you are for the use of tulpa. to you, that word means something different than its origins.

to me, as a bodily semiverbal person, these terms mean something different. these words have evolved within the community that they were applied to. the system community, both endogenic and traumagenic, is dissociated (ha) from the semi/nonverbal community at large. you don’t know how we use these words because you literally do not participate in our community or culture. just like someone who commented on one of your other posts said, this is exactly like when verbal autistics who lose speech insist that saying “go nonverbal” doesn’t hurt nonverbal people.

as i said in my original post, and yet people somehow become unable to read for one sentence, if one headmate fronts for a significant amount of time that you could be considered semiverbal as one body, then you can do that. you are very disingenuous with your “bodily experiences” post, even though i am very sure you understand what people mean by that. my entire body regardless of any headmate fronting will always be semiverbal or nonverbal as my brain damage progresses. i use these words to tell people that as a body i cannot speak how you speak. if i had some headmates that couldn’t talk i would just say that. those specific ones can’t talk. my body is verbal overall.

if you go into our communities, we will hear you say “i am nonverbal” and will assume that your body does not and cannot speak. we will defer to you and seek to uplift your voice as one of the most disabled members of our society. our community is based around intersectionality and understanding that there are people more disabled than you. it is the job of verbal people to listen to me, and it is my job to listen to nonverbal people.

if you use these terms just for yourself. just between you and your therapist. between you and your friends. then no, it doesn’t matter. it was never about that. it is about the community and community implications of people who are objectively less disabled taking a word for people who are more so.

headmates can be people, they can do that, but a single body exists. you can’t just ignore that. i don’t become white when my white headmate fronts. i don’t gain the ability to walk unaided when abled headmates front. i don’t become less disabled in any way. i don’t become verbal.

and if you want to counter with abled systems can have alters that can’t walk, because i know you just want to, we don’t call it paralysis. we call it functional, somatic, or psychogenic paralysis. it works differently in the body just the same. you can’t insert yourself into semi/nonverbal spaces any more than you can insert yourself into a SCI support group.

i could do the same thing as you have done and explain why i think PNES should just be called regular seizures and they’re exactly the same now. there are many sources where they have been called seizures for years and years. but language changes, and i know you know this.

I'm already lost...

Is there some sort of discourse claiming that you can't call psychogenic non-epileptic seizures... seizures?

and if you want to counter with abled systems can have alters that can’t walk, because i know you just want to, we don’t call it paralysis. we call it functional, somatic, or psychogenic paralysis.

Or that psychogenic paralysis isn't a valid type of paralysis?

The cause may be different, but there are a ton of different causes for various conditions.

Someone blinded by an eye disease is blind. Someone blinded by their eyes being physically damaged is blind. Someone who experiences psychogenic blindness is blind.

Likewise, psychogenic paralysis IS paralysis. And a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure IS a seizure. You can add a qualifier to that... but it's not necessary.

if you go into our communities, we will hear you say “i am nonverbal” and will assume that your body does not and cannot speak.

That could be a fair assumption with no context. Although I... frankly doubt this happens often, or is a mistake that lasts long without being corrected.

If someone hears me say "I'm a cis woman" without context, I'm sure they would wrongfully assume I mean that the body is AFAB.

Obviously, it's important to try to mitigate miscommunications like these. But I assume that if you're dealing with a system with nonverbal headmates, you'll realize shortly the error. Unless that nonverbal headmate is the host or is otherwise fronting all or most of the time, in which case... maybe the miscommunication isn't as important as you think it is. 🤷‍♀️

our community is based around intersectionality and understanding that there are people more disabled than you. it is the job of verbal people to listen to me, and it is my job to listen to nonverbal people.

And this, I think is a mistake. At least when taken to the extremes I see here.

First... I'm really not comfortable with the idea of "more disabled" here. Sure, you can kind of apply this in specific contexts to try to say recurrent symptoms aren't as bad because they don't happen as often... but having your legs randomly give out while crossing the street might be more harmful than being a fulltime wheelchair user who wouldn't have been in that situation.

I'm also not comfortable with this thought in this specific case as it suggests that the nonverbal singlet is "more disabled" than the traumagenic DID system with severe memory loss and c-PTSD who has nonverbal headmates, and therefore gets a right to police their terms.

But let's say for the sake of argument this has merit and DID systems with nonverbal headmates are "less disabled" than nonverbal singlets:

Yes, you should absolutely listen to people with disabilities. Especially severe ones. But...

Dysphoric transgender people are technically more disabled (in that specific context) than non-dysphoric ones.

The same logic you're using could just as easily be used to support transmedicalists over non-dysphoric transgender people. Actually, the same logic HAS been used this way. Repeatedly. It's one of the main talking points employed by transmeds to garner sympathy.

There HAS to be more critical thought put into these issues than just "listen to the most disabled people in the room," which in this context really feels more like "accept what the most vocal members of a group say on a given platform without question."

This is also the logic sysmeds use against endogenic and non-disordered systems.

"We're disabled trauma survivors, so therefore you're supposed to listen to us when we claim this other marginalized group of people aren't real and their experiences aren't valid, and they aren't allowed to use terms we claim are ours regardless of whether those terms originally were or not. If you disagree with us then you're ableist."

We cannot afford to normalize this sort of exclusionism and gatekeeping.

[arquaticdreamer]

Hello my name is Arquatic of The Hasted Tonberries

🌧 My name is Jules Cloud. I am 15-8 year old syskid/systeen alter | I am a proud SFW wolf furry, am pup gender & autigender| I Run this nonspeaking advocate blog also is SFW padded agere blog.

🫐 We are a Polyfragmented C-DID system 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 over 100+ OA survivor || Body is 29 y/o chronologically but due to severe lifelong trauma and borderline ID is cognitively a forever kid 🌧️ Main fronters: Julian Cloud (Host, Age-Slider), Mason Baumann (1st Co-host, EP, Traumaholder), Damian Brooks (2nd Co-host, EP, traumaholder), Paul Leskowitz (ESA =Emotional support alter, Comfort Alter). If it’s not Julian posting it’s either Mason, Damian or Paul and will specify in post tags and description. 🌧️

🫐 Multiply Disabled || Physically disabled || Full-time mobility aid user 🩼 || Ambulatory wheelchair user ♿️ Severe Dyspraxia, Apraxia, Ataxia, Aphasia, Asthma, FND, Mixed ARFID and ME/CFS, POTS.

🫐 High Support Needs Level 3 Autistic ♾️

🫐 Fully Nonverbal/Nonspeaking 🔇Full-Time AAC User (All our alters are Nonverbal) We are HoH. We use some ASL and made up hand gestures, i.e. "Home signs" due to motor issues

🫐 Continued late Autism regression, Autistic catatonia, Borderline ID, and Possibly suspect mild IDD, suspect agoraphobia

🫐 Typing is hard for Cloud, so Cloud sometimes types in 3rd person. Please be patient with me. We always have a hard time understanding everything typed to us.

🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧🌧

Tags I use always:

#nonspeaking #nonverbal #actually disabled #autistic system #level 3 autism #high support needs #actuallynonspeaking #actuallynonverbal #fully nonverbal #fully nonspeaking #nonverbalcommunity

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🫧 ArquaticAutistic = my unique tag for who it is.

🫧 Arquatic Damian = Any posts by Damian

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DNI: If you're kink or pro shipper, anti-furry, minors, ddlg/abdl/, map, or no map (you're a gross P3d0 so stay away from me), anti-religious, anti-spirituality, homophobic, transphobic, aphobic or anti-aspec, ED blog (this does not include ARFID related) or otherwise NSFW blog so no gross prn images. DO NOT talk to us about anything s*x related, or anything NSFW or anything political. DO NOT ASK FOR DONATIONS! Cloud lives below poverty line and only gets so much money for self. And do not ask any of us to participate in political discourse, we are mentally incapable of understanding all of the nuances to those things due to our IDD. This is a strictly SFW agere blog and Agere should only be SFW. if you kink agere you're honestly gross of a person so just please stay away and leave us the hell alone.

[fluffyvoidbee]

Alright, time for us to do a proper intro.

Hey! This is our main blog/account! We are a system (likely Osdd-1b, due to us lacking amnesia, but unsure; we're undiagnosed). We are also Autistic, ADHD, and a myriad of other things, as well as having physical disabilities. Accommodation-wise, we use a cane, and also sometimes use emojis and cards to communicate (we sometimes go nonverbal, and other times go nonscribal as well). We also do use tone tags frequently and would prefer if they are used when speaking to us.

We also have rather severe social anxiety, so may not post much or may not say much.

To set some basic "this is who we are" stuff: We are trans/nonbinary, use neopronouns/xenopronouns and xenogenders, we are (as previously stated) neurodivergent and disabled, we are plural, we are otherkin/therian (mostly through nonhuman alters), we age regress and pet regress (however, we have a side blog/account for that), we are a furry (furries?) and more, but that's all that comes to mind rn. We are those things and, therefor, pro those things. :]

We do try to stay out of inner-community discourse, but we do sort of have opinions. It's hard for us to have confident opinions on it, mostly due to our hyper-empathy, but that's all I'll say, as I'd prefer to stay away from the topic.

Anyways, onto the actual intros!

Collectively, we go by many names, but most often either go by Bee or Moth. Our (recently decided on) system name is The Beehive Mosaic (also sometimes called The Beehive Collective or The Beehive System).

Onto alter intros. (We are a system of 40, so this will be a bit long.)

The Host and Co-Host:

Default—The system Host, gatekeeper, and more.

Fronts near constantly, sometimes forgets to tag posts/stuff as theirs bc they see themself as the 'Default' or the body, hence the name.

Pronouns: He/they/it and any neo/xenopronouns

Uses neutral terms usually, masculine terms sometimes, and feminine terms rarely.

Signs off with 👍

Mask—The 'Co-host' of the system, also technically a gatekeeper. Most often fronts when we're in public, they are our masking front. Maybe considered a ANP?

Fronts when we feel the need to socially change behaviors and mask, so may not post on here much.

Pronouns: He/they

Uses neutral and masculine terms.

Signs off with ���

Fictives

Spiral—Fictive of The Spiral/Michael the Distortion from The Magnus Archives.

Randomly fronts, usually when looking at content abt their source or things he enjoys, so may show up at any point and leave at any point.

Pronouns: They/he/it/that/that thing/creature/distortion/spiral/confuse/odd/corridor/lie/door/💛/🍭/🫗/🌀/🚪/❓️/🔄

Uses neutral and sometimes masculine terms. Also, likes confusion based terms (if that makes sense).

Signs off with 🍭

Luna/Nightmare Moon—Fictive of Princess Luna and somewhat Nightmare Moon from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Also fronts at random intervals, often when interacting with source material or things she enjoys.

Pronouns: She/they/luna/lunar/moon/star/🌙 (mainly she/they)

Uses feminine terms but doesn't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with 🌙

Bloodmoon/Bloody—Fictive of one of the Bloodmoon twins from The Sun and Moon Show. (Is partly sourced from fan-content, so it isn't the same as the Bloodmoon in source).

Tends to front a bit often, but may not be allowed to interact online much (they can be a bit rude to ppl). Often fronts when talking about fangs source, or listening to music they like (mostly either ICP or anything emo).

Pronouns: He/they/it/claw/fang/blood/red/🩸

Uses masculine, neutral, and nonhuman terms

Signs off with 🩸

Sebastian—Fictive of Sebastian Solace from Pressure (He is significantly different from source, though)

Doesn't really front much, but is pretty chill when he does. Mostly fronts when we interact with stuff he likes (fav aesthetics or music).

Pronouns: He/they (mostly He/him)

Uses masculine terms

Signs off with 🐍🧬

Lunar—Fictive of Lunar from The Sun and Moon Show (specifically from earlier in the show, but he's also majorly different from source and mostly sourced from fan content).

Fronts pretty often, but won't be allowed on here much bc his source trauma made him kinda...rlly freaky. :P

Pronouns: He/they/⭐️

Uses masculine terms, but is also content with neutral terms

Signs off with ⭐️

Subsystems

Inhuman—A shapeshifter subsystem, who has an unknown amount of forms/alters. So far, I know they've been a slime, a wooden doll, a beetle, a spider, a mannequin, and I think a demon.

Fronts randomly with whatever form they current are, usually triggered by something that creature enjoys. (Ex. Seeing a bug plushie triggers beetle, seeing Lethal Company coil-head triggers wooden doll or mannequin, etc)

Collective pronouns: It/thing/that thing/that/anomaly/[redacted]/creature/entity/👁/🪽/🐾/🎪/🖼/🎭/☎️/📺/☢️/☣️/they (may prefer others depending on who it is)

Uses neutral and nonhuman terms.

Signs off with 🖼

Swoon—Unsure what they are? They find a certain character we're fixated on/relate to and temporarily become a fictive of that character, but then just...stops later? Idrk

Fronts whenever latching onto a character, so usually when we're looking at content of our fixations.

Pronouns depend on who it is. Otherwise, we'd just recommend using they/them or their name.

Terms also depend. Neutral is the default here.

Signs off with 💖

The Dragons

Dragon—May have fragmented into the other dragons, or was the first dragon at least. Is a feral dragon with non-bodily memories and trauma. Doesn't act very human and has very significant nonhuman urges and wants.

Fronts when triggered (either by things they enjoy, content about dragons, or things that remind them of their trauma).

Pronouns: It/he/dragon/wyvern/wing/claw/paw/gem/draco/they

Uses neutral and nonhuman/dragon terms, but doesn't mind masculine terms.

Signs off with 🦷

Forrest—A wood dragon made of wood who used to protect a forest (non-bodily memories).

Doesn't front very often, but may when Dragon is discussing their memories, because Forrest was likely fragmented from gems older memories, or when discussing lots about nature and preservation of land.

Pronouns: Unsure, likely it/he/they, or simply its name.

Uses neutral and dragon terms, but likely wouldn't mind masculine terms.

Signs off with 🌲

Frost—A fluffy, feathered, snow dragon who's rather solitary.

Doesn't front super often, usually when it's snowy out or when listening to Christmas music/looking at Christmas stuff.

Pronouns: She/they/it (and maybe some neo/xenopronouns, but she never quite decided what other pronouns she uses)

Uses feminine, neutral, and sometimes dragon terms.

Signs off with ❄️

Ocean—A water wyvern who is sometimes human and loves tropical aesthetics and gyaru.

Fronts a bit more frequently than the other dragons, but most particularly around summertime.

Pronouns: It/she/they/draco/water/wyvern/ocean/sea/wing/fin/🌊 (when more draconic)

Pronouns: She/they/it/water/ocean/coral/🐚/🪼/🍹/🌊 (when human)

Uses feminine terms, and dragon terms when draconic, but doesn't mind neutral terms either way.

Signs off with 🌊

Semi-introjects

Weirdkin—A weirdcore creature who's looks may have come from a character in a Roblox game (I can't remember the game or character name). Has a typing quirk that may be hard to read (L1k3 s0).

Doesn't front very often, but thrives when interacting with weirdcore content or 2020 aesthetic content.

Pronouns: It/they/he/thing/that thing/that/creature/0dd/eye/t00th/👁/🦷

Uses neutral and nonhuman terms, but doesn't mind masculine terms.

Signs off with 👁

Tism—Symptom holder? We are collectively autistic, but Tism has those traits a lot more noticeably and excessively. Also, they're sometimes tbhcreaturekin (as in, they are the tbh/autism/yippee creature).

Fronts often in autism-friendly spaces and when interacting with stimboards, but otherwise isn't the most frequent fronter.

Pronouns: He/it/they/boing/bop/vwoop/bonk/stim/wag/yip/yippee/paw/thing/X3/🍬/🌈/🎉/♾️/🦈/🪸/🐠/🫧/🪼

Uses neutral and masculine terms.

Signs off with 🎉

Cozy—A sleepy, comfy catboy who is an absolute loverboy and hopeless romantic. Dunno if this counts as a Semi-introject, but they're an omega (don't think too hard abt it), so I figured that counts as coming from an outside source. Has a sort of typing quirk that elongates words and uses '~' without reason (Likeee thiiissssss~).

Fronts semi-often when comfortable or listening to love songs.

Pronouns: They/he/love/cozy/omega/fluff/sleep/💕/🩷

Uses masculine and neutral terms.

Signs off with 💕

Protector and Caretaker

Nightmare—A shadow polymorph who's very spooky and not very nice (most of us are). Likely a protector, because he's very protective and more comfortable being rude than most of us are.

Fronts infrequently, sometimes a lot, sometimes not very much.

Pronouns: It/he/they/that/that thing/fear/shade/teeth/Nightmare/dark/fang/abyss/shadow/creature/🦷/🦴/👁/🫀/🌑/🖤/🩸

Uses masculine, neutral, and nonhuman terms.

Signs off with 🦴

Sunny—Our caretaker, who associates with 1950s housewives and loves bees, honey, dresses, and tea.

Fronts rather frequently, helping us to take care of the body and the house we live in. She will usually not front if there's a stressful situation, however, because she's very sensitive to negativity.

Pronouns: She/they/sunshine/fun/🔆/🌻 (Mainly she/they)

Uses feminine terms but doesn't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with ☀️

Other Conceptkin alters

Gore: An alter formed from our fear of/trauma from gore that enjoys and embodies it (ANY POSTS BY THEM WILL BE PROPERLY TAGGED AND HOPEFULLY CENSORED APROPRIATELY)

Fronts rather rarely, usually only when we indulge in harsh horror content, which is uncommon due to our severe paranoia.

Pronouns: Gore/blood/bone/flesh/rot/🧠/🫀/🫁/🦷/🦴/👁/🪱/🪲/🪰/🍄/🍖/🥩/🩸/🩻/☣️/it/they

Uses neutral and nonhuman terms.

Signs off with 🫀

Toony—Cartoonkin goofy lil guy.

Doesn't full front often unless watching cartoons/animations, but comes to front a lot when listening to music.

Pronouns: He/it/they/boom/whizz/toon/cartoon/silly/boing/bonk/💥/✨️/🎉/❗️

Uses masculine and neutral terms.

Signs off with 💥

Spooky/Hallow—Halloweenkin, chill person.

Doesn't front much until Halloween time comes around, then they front a *lot*.

Pronouns: He/she/it/they/spook/pumpkin/hallow/Halloween/horror/candy/vamp/bat/🧡/🖤/💜/👻/🕷/🕸/🍬/🌑/🌖/🌘/🎃/🐈‍⬛/🍁

Uses mostly neutral terms, but also uses masculine and feminine terms.

Signs off with 🎃

Neon—Very sensory seeking alter. Likes everything loud and bright and stuff. Also likes leds and bioluminescense.

Partially fronts and gives passive influence frequently, but doesn't full-front very often.

Pronouns: They/it/neon/bright/glow/rainbow/💖/🩷/❤️/🧡/💛/💚/💙/🩵/💜/💫/⭐️/🛸/🦋/🪼/🫧/🩻/🎉/🎨/🚦/🌈/🍭/🛼

Uses neutral terms.

Signs off with 🌈

Jester—The idea of a silly, evil lil jester personified. Also heavily influenced one of my OCs, and then became a partial introject of it.

Didn't used to front much, but is becoming a bit more frequent.

Pronouns: He/they/it/jester/fool/jingle/🃏/🎭

Uses neutral and masculine terms.

Signs off with 🃏

Fragments

Read—A fragment surrounding reading detailed stories and feeling in the story (sometimes in a derealizion/maladaptive daydreaming way)

Very rarely fronts unless reading a story, then getting very invested in said story. Then their front is very short-lived.

Pronouns: Unsure, use they/them for now

Unsure of terms, use neutral for now.

Signs off with 📖

Masc—The personification of our masculinity, coming from a transmasculine perspective. A fragment.

Rarely fronts, but has a couple front triggers that'll make them front for a lil bit.

Pronouns: He/they with a preference for he/him.

Uses masculine terms, but doesn't totally mind neutral terms.

Signs off with ♂️

Mogai—A fragment formed when working on a pride flag-centric project. We barely know anything about them.

Extremely rare front, but may front if working with pride flags, neo/xenopronouns, and xenogenders.

Pronouns: Unsure, default to they/them

Unsure of terms, default to neutral.

Signs off with ⚧️

Craft King—A fragment that works on crafts and art.

They rarely front unless I'm crafting or making kandi.

Pronouns unsure, default to they/them.

Terms unsure, default to neutral.

Signs off with 🌻

Hollow—A fragment and symptom holder for lack of empathy/emotions when dissociated.

Fronts rarely and only when we're feeling dissociated and kind of blurry.

Pronouns: they/them

Uses neutral terms.

Signs off with 🌫

Spaced Out—A fragment and symptom holder who fronts when we're feeling dissociated and spaced out.

Fronts rarely, but more often than Hollow.

Pronouns: They/them + maybe he/she/star/space/cosmo

Uses any terms, but mainly neutral.

Signs off with 🌌

Plush—A fragment who loves plushies and collecting (mostly collecting plushies).

Doesn't front much unless involving plushies or collecting things.

Pronouns: Unsure, default to they/them

Terms unsure, default to neutral.

Signs off with 🧸

Persecutor?

Panic—Persecutor(?)/emotion holder that personifies our mental unwellness and hopelessness.

Fronts when doing unwell and when spiraling, whether due to paranoia, anxiety, depression, etc.

Pronouns: It/they/he + maybe ⚠️/‼️

Uses neutral and masculine terms.

Signs off with ‼️

Other alters (bc we can't think of more categories)

Adventurer—A human alter with non-bodily memories and trauma. Likes mushrooms, moss, and forests.

Doesn't front super often, but also isn't quite rare. Often fronts when in nature or discussing nature-based topics.

Pronouns: He/him + maybe 🪶/🦋/🌱/🪷/🌲/🌳/🌿/🍂/☘️/🧭/🌄/🌙/🌧/they

Uses masculine terms, but doesn't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with 🌱

Auto—A robot alter with vauge non-bodily memories who has had many different bodies over time (in reference to memories).

Fronts semi-frequently, most often when interacting with robot/computer content.

Pronouns: It/tech/cyber/wire/robo/screen/synth/neon/static/auto/=]/=p/🦾/⚙️/🔲/📺/🔌/🖥️/they/he

Uses neutral and robotic terms, but doesn't mind masculine terms.

Signs off with ⚙️

Bimbo—Sexual alter. Has most of our hypersexual tendencies (hypersexuality is the result of mild trauma with us). Is not allowed to post much online due to us being bodily a minor. Also, she likes pink, dressing pretty, and McBling aesthetics. Also also, she sometimes bunny-regresses, but rather rare, and it makes her personality rather different.

She fronts rather frequently, especially as of recent, but her posting/online interacting is being limited/restricted by our host/gatekeeper for the previously mentioned reasons.

Pronouns: She/they/love/pink/heart/rose/💖/🩷/🎀/👛/💕/❤️‍🔥 + sometimes he/it (rose is genderfluid)

Uses mainly feminine terms, but doesn't mind other terms. Mostly depends on what her gender feels like at the time.

Signs off with ❤️‍🔥

Gamer—Another human alter who likes gaming, especially minecraft, and is a bit of a geek.

Fronts sometimes frequently, sometimes not for a while. Usually fronts most when we get fixated on a video game.

Pronouns: He/it + maybe they/🎮/🖥

Uses masculine terms, but doesn't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with 🎮

Kitty—The other sexual alter. Kitty also sometimes pet-regresses, however.

Fronts semi-frequently, but will also likely be restricted from posting much, if at all.

Pronouns: It/they/he/she/kitty/puppy/paw/meow/woof/💜/🐾/🎀

Uses neutral terms mostly, but is also fine with masculine and feminine terms.

Signs off with 🎀

King—Another human alter. Her name is slightly misleading. She's just very confident and feels powerful (may be considered an emotion protector of sorts).

Fronts rather often, usually when feeling empowered by things like music. Also stays fronting for a while due to listening to music or getting dressed up (her style fits the current fashion norms a bit more than the rest of us, but she also loves the boujee aesthetic).

Pronouns: She/they + maybe some neos/xenos

They use feminine terms mainly, but don't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with 👑

Little—The system little/age-regressor.

Fronts semi-frequently, but has a separate blog that he'll post on more (blogs kept separate to not make any agere blogs uncomfortable with our other alters' stuff).

Pronouns: He/they/bub/plush/doodle/🍼/🧸/🫧/🔆/🩵

Uses masculine and neutral terms.

Signs off with 🍼

Mikael—An angel, specifically a seraphim. We are not Christian, but he is based on biblical descriptions to an extent and wears Christian symbols.

Fronts infrequently. Sometimes shows up a lot, sometimes not a lot at all.

Pronouns: Seraph/seraphim/light/dove/[redacted]/{angel}/☁️/🌧/🦢/🤍/⬜️/❔️/⚪️/💫/⭐️/aer/silk/hir/he/they + sometimes she/her

Uses neutral and masculine terms, but sometimes doesn't mind feminine terms.

Signs off with 🕊

Poet—A human alter that loves poetry and theatre. Also quite loves academia aesthetics.

Usually fronts frequently, but sometimes doesn't show up for a while.

Pronouns: He/they/poet/poetry/🌙/🎭/🖊

Uses masculine terms, but doesn't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with 🎭

Pup—The system pet-regressor, often cofronts with Little. Is usually a puppy regressor, but occasionally other animals.

Fronts rather frequently, but also will mostly be on Little's blog rather than here.

Pronouns: Pup/paw/kit/meow/woof/bark/wag/fluff/🐶/🐱/🐾/he/it/they

Uses masculine, neutral, and animal terms.

Signs off with 🐾

Researcher—A human alter who loves studying and researching things. Has a 'mad scientist' aesthetic but is rather chill and doesn't act that way.

Fronts semi-frequently, usually when we're researching a topic we enjoy or when interacting with the previously mentioned 'mad scientist' aesthetic.

Pronouns: He/chem/lab/🥽/🥼/🧪/🖋/🩻/🔬/🩺/they

Uses masculine terms, but doesn't mind neutral terms.

Signs off with 🖋

Scene Qween—A alter that is very scene and loves older-webcore content and animation memes. Also, has a typing quirk (L00kz l1k3 th1z usu4lly!! X3)

Fronts infrequently, sometimes a lot, sometimes not a lot.

Pronouns:He/she/they/it/Rawr/XD/X3/:3/:D/X]/:]/X0/:0/xe/nyan/kandi/🌈/🎶/💜

Uses any terms.

Signs off with 🎵

That should be everybody for now. This is a lot to read, so thank you if you actually did. It was a lot for me to write. Hopefully, when certain alters front, they may make posts detailing more about themselves, but I can't confirm that or speak for them. Anyways, I hope to post on this account a bit and just have fun. :] -👍

[gillipop-plus]

my stances and stuff:

pro endo/thoughtforms, MOGIA/LGTQIA2+, self diagnosis, BLM/ACAB, ed/sh/paraphilia recovery, mspec monos, contradictory labels

don't want to get involved in: shipcourse, tulpamancy as a plural term, bodily white systems with POC alters/verbal systems with nonverbal alters, any discourse around what's RAMCOA exclusive, shi/hir and fae/faer pronoun discourse

anti radqueer, contact (pedo/zoo), harassment/death threats/suibaiting, fakeclaiming

DNI bigot, mogai exclusionist, radqueer, safequeer, MAP/MAA, pro/complex contact zoo (or think it's a valid stance). anti endos on thin ice. If you interact with me and I'm on your DNI I'll take that as an invitation to break said DNI

interact only on anon if you post gore/horror/nsfw on your blog.

extended DNI under cut for if you're still unsure if you're on it. cw for dogwhisels

DNI bigot, MAGA, TERF, gender critical, anti transgenderism, anti gay, anti gay agenda, pro traditional family values, MAP/MAA, pedophile, pedosexual, pro/complex contact zoophile (or think it's a valid stance), zoosexual. interact only on anon if you post gore/horror/nsfw on your blog. (so no likes, comments or reblogs.) anti endos may interact but if you're really vocal and mean about it I may block.

x x x

[mellowcaty]

INTRO POSTING! (Will contain alter intros)

⭐DNI and Boundaries⭐

Interact 🌄- Doubles, Source Mates (Not c/arg! Wilbur or the Green Fucker™️), LGBTQIAA+, Therians/FictionKin/Otherhearted People/Otherkin, SFW agere/petre or agedre/petdre, Disabled/Neurodivergent people, Systems, Small Content Creators, SFW Objectum, POSIC+, andddd anyone who doesn't fall into the DNI list!

Do Not Interact 🚩- Any kind of Dream introjects please bug off, C!/ARG!Wilbur Soot Introjects, MAP/Pedo, Zoos, Transids, Trans-Racial folks, Trans Age people, Fake-Claimers, Anti Therian/Furry/Otherkin, Anti Agere/Petre, NSFW blogs/k1nk accounts, Anti introject/Fictive/Factive, anti-xenogender, proshippers (and any variants), Poppy TWT people, fetishizers, "your source memories aren't real" mfs (gtfo of here 💀)

Alright, if you fall under DNI criteria, FUCK OFF PAST THIS POINT.

If you don't fall under DNI criteria, it's free real estate, fellas./nf

Alright, now that we've weeded out the *weirdos*, leut's get moving!

🩹Intros🩹

📀🍄 - C!Tommy/Sparrow

Age: 16-19

Labels: Transmasculine, Apothisexual/Sex Repulsed, MLM/MLNBM, Devilgender, Poglexic, Buggender

Pronouns: (He/Pog/It/Red/Cat/Disc/Xir/Devil)

Roles: Symptom Holder, Trauma Holder, Co-Host

Facts/Interests: BIRDS/Ornithology, Loves Music, Learning to Crochet(poorly), Always making things, Dating C!Tubbo/Nuke and C!Ranboo, photography

Boundaries - SFW INTERACTION ONLY, use tone tags, don't baby vent posts, don't treat me like I'm your "favourite character/Comfort character come to life", I'm a real person just like you, no source dating, don't mention or talk about Dream at all, ask before you souce talk

☀️🐞 - CC!Tommy/Tom/Tom-Toms

Age: 16-20

Labels: Transmasculine, Bisexual

Pronouns: (He/It/Record/Leaf/Racoon/Pup)

Roles: Idiot ™️/Pos, Emotional - Processor, symptom holder

Facts/Interests: Dating CC!Ran and CC!Tubbo, wants a person chicken, Enjoys music (duh), constantly doing a bit/hsrs, photography

Boundaries: Don't ask about irl content creator discourse, Dream supporters dni, swf only, ask me about my source; I love talking about it! Poppy twt bitches *points to a cliff* there's the door/srs

🌼📍- Cc!Winnona (MtF cc!Tommy)

Age: 19

Labels: Big ol lesbian, Transfemme

Pronouns: (She/Bug/Fae)

Roles: Caretaker, Boundary-Protector

Facts/Interests: wants to learn the drums, wants to also learn another language, actually can cook (kinda), Dating Molly (duhh), flowers are really cool

Boundaries: Sfw interaction only, don't be a creepy weirdo, dont bring up irl content creator discourseee

🦷💿- Theseus/Exile!Tommy

Age: 13-16

Lables: Rotboy, deadboy, transmasc, apothi-aroace

Pronouns: (It/he/rot/disc/dead/corpse/xir)

Roles: Trauma holder, symptom holder, urge holder, source negative, pain hooder

Facts/Interests: very fragile, amputee (left arm at shoulder and right leg at ankle), missing his left eye

Boundaries: do not mention Dream or the smiley face in any way, do not feed his intrusive thoughts, do not bring up anything about his source, trigger things like s3lf h4rm/eating disorders/ s/a (at best, don't mention it), be gentle with him, no nsfw interaction (you will be blocked), use tone tags

🌊🌀 - ARG!Innit/Ocean

Age: 16

Labels: Corpseic, deadbolt, rotic, aro-ace, unlabeled

Pronouns: (Rot/Dig/Drop/It/They/Snow)

Roles: Symptom holder, trauma holder

Fun Facts/Interests: Always dirty, cold, or slightly wet, hates taking baths, dislikes phone-calls/ringing sounds, mostly nonverbal

Boundaries: don't mention the Halloween cricket crew stream or ARG!Bur, don't ask about source, don't be a creep, sfw only

Alright fellas, that's about the end! I wish you all a lovely day 🌹

C!Tommy/Sparrow [🍄📀]

[cutemotes]

Dogpound sys speaking!!

Requests are: CLOSED

Dni: Meanies!!

Just be kind! Please don’t trace, copy, reference or claim my emotes as yours!

What we do!

Character, Oc, Alter emotes!

Sfw emotes!

Agere emotes!

Maybe text emotes!

Nonverbal emotes!

What we don’t do!

N/S/F/W! We are bodily a minor and we will not be doing these. Perhaps in the future on a separate blog.

Discourse!! Syscourse, shipping discourse, mogai discourse, both make us super uncomfortable! None of that please.

Hateful stuff! (Duh)

Full on art pieces! Commission us for that!

Dsmp, enstars, and things that are personal triggers! We will ALWAYS let you know!

Thats it!

Or rather, idk what else to put…

So just follow these rules and it’s all good!

discord: here

[postmoderntongues]

SO apparently my old diagnosis of DDNOES isnt used anymore and I would be considered OSDD so I just thought that I (we?) would say a little hello to the community.  I AM professionally diagnosed and my new therapist thinks it might help me a little bit to actually acknowledge my alters instead of my last therapists advice which was not to give in to it.  

Sarah is my adult fronter (Im 30 but I feel like shes more 21-25 which is around the age i detransitioned).  She is very sexual, likes to dress in lingerie (specifically babydoll style), the only one in the system who responds positively to male sexual attention, the only one in the system who masterbates (sorry if that is TMI).  She is also the only one in the system with the ability to do makeup.  She loves VC Andrews and poetry and fancy smelling soap.  Her favorite music is stuff like Xiu Xiu, The Mountain Goats, radiohead, Nicole Dollanganger, Ginger Bronson, and Hole.  She does non-contact online sex work and is a bit of a compulsive spender.   She collects Precious Moments figurines. We are all autistic but Sarah is the highest functioning.  Sarah is recovering from EDNOES/Bulimia/Atypical Anorexia.  She likes benzos, opiates, and ecstasy and is my most social alter.  She has a slight southern accent.

My second alter is Syd.  Syd identifies as male and is roughly 15 years old.  He likes rough sex, is a recovering cutter, is an insufferable edgelord who is fascinated by gore and autistically into horror.  He holds most of my wrath toward the world.  He’s my second most common fronting alter.  He likes MCR, The Used, Smashing Pumpkins, and Three Days Grace.  He loves to read splatterpunk and transgressive fiction.  He is a reckless drug user and will get high on anything from benadryl to cough medication to the air in the whipped cream can and is a compulsive stoner.  His preferred high is psychedelic.  He prefers the company of other boys and doesnt have a lot in common with most girls.  He is very dysphoric about his chest and the most likely to get caught up in drama and discourse because he doesnt separate negative and positive attention.  He collects horror merch.  He has the most severe case of BPD and NPD out of the system members and also has the most noticeable tic (sharply exhaling through the nose).  He uses a lot of slang circa-2011 and has the strongest eastern accent out of the three.

My most common fronting alter and also my lowest functioning is Ash, my “little” (age 2-5).  She loves to color, likes early Melanie Martinez, collects squishmellows, and is terrified of “mushy” textures.  She is very emotionally dependent on our partner and gets severe separation anxiety.  She is the most capable of caring for children out of the three because she understands their needs, being a child herself.  She is a severe trauma holder with CPTSD and often nonverbal.  She is completely asexual and terrified of male attention.  She is friendly to everybody to a fault and easily manipulated by false kindness.  She is the only one in the system without body dysmorphia.  She likes weed because it makes the overstimulation calm down a little bit and did NOT like acid when i did it while she was fronting.  She is obsessed with receiving praise from authority.  She enjoys more lighthearted media like comedy and eats too much candy.  She has a higher pitched voice than the other two.  

I sometimes dissociate to a robot/void state when overstimulated but I slip between alters with little to no interruption or chunks of missing time (well that may or may not be true i have a very bad memory) and have some control over “who” is fronting its not completely involuntary (like i can push Syd and Sarah down if they try to front at work) but my therapist was pretty confident in the diagnosis.  So thats pretty much it, Im open to more questions if anybody has any but that is pretty much “us”.  

[syscourse-confessions]

Before I start- we actually bodily are nonverbal!

The pervasive policing of who can use what term is disgusting. I'm not harmed by nonspeaking headmates in a bodily verbal system calling themselves nonverbal. It's a descriptor. It doesn't need policed like it is. I see this in other words too, and it seems pointless. It would be better if people put less energy into term policing and more into other areas of syscourse.

.

[sophieinwonderland]

"You can't use the word nonverbal for alters!" Wait, people seriously gatekeep actual dictionary words now? I might understand it when it comes to plurality terms, but gatekeeping literally dictionary words? Come on...

I mean, a lot of plurality terms are also dictionary words.

A "system" is just a bunch of different things working together. It's never been a super specific medical term.

Plurality became the alternative to multiple because people were gatekeeping that back in the day. Of course, that's less gatekeeping a term than gatekeeping an entire set of experiences. But it does seem like the term was gatekept too.

But I too find this discourse... strange... to say the least.

I'm not really comfortable with the idea that a group of people can pick a random existing word in the dictionary, popularize it for their community, and then start gatekeeping anyone else from using that word with its original definition.

Nonverbal has a long history in reference to nonverbal communication predating it being used to describe individuals.

And as I covered before, literal psychiatrists have referred to individual alters as non-verbal.

Stepping back to the gatekeeping of system terms for a moment, I really wouldn't be surprised if in a universe where DID had still been named MPD, modern sysmeds would be claiming that "personality" was an MPD-exclusive term that nobody else could use.

[neptunecreek]

How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse

Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.

It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks to the migration of discourse to online platforms) and in kind, whether that's the rise of nonverbal elements in our written discourse (emojis, memes, ASCII art and emoticons) or the kinds of online harassment and brigading campaigns that have grown with the Internet.

A common explanation for the change in our discourse is that the biggest tech platforms use surveillance, data-collection, and machine learning to manipulate us, either to increase "engagement" (and thus pageviews and thus advertising revenues) or to persuade us of things that aren't true, for example, to convince us to buy something we don't want or support a politician we would otherwise oppose.

There's a simple story about that relationship: by gathering a lot of data about us, and by applying self-modifying machine-learning algorithms to that data, Big Tech can target us with messages that slip past our critical faculties, changing our minds not with reason, but with a kind of technological mesmerism.

This story originates with Big Tech itself. Marketing claims for programmatic advertising and targeted marketing (including political marketing) promise prospective clients that they can buy audiences for their ideas through Big Tech, which will mix its vast data-repositories with machine learning and overwhelm our cognitive defenses to convert us into customers for products or ideas.

We should always be skeptical of marketing claims. These aren't peer-reviewed journal articles, they're commercial puffery. The fact that the claims convince marketers to give billions of dollars to Big Tech is no guarantee that the claims are true. After all, powerful decision-makers in business have a long history of believing things that turned out to be false.

It's clear that our discourse is changing. Ideas that were on the fringe for years have gained new centrality. Some of these ideas are ones that we like (gender inclusivity, racial justice, anti-monopolistic sentiment) and some are ideas we dislike (xenophobia, conspiracy theories, and denial of the science of climate change and vaccines).

Our world is also dominated by technology, so any change to our world probably involves technology. Untangling the causal relationships between technology and discourse is a thorny problem, but it's an important one.

It's possible that Big Tech has invented a high-tech form of mesmerism, but whether you believe in that or not, there are many less controversial, more obvious ways in which Big Tech is influencing (and distorting) our discourse.

Locating Precise Audiences

Obviously, Big Tech is incredibly good at targeting precise audiences, this being value proposition of the whole ad-tech industry. Do you need to reach overseas students from the Pacific Rim doing graduate studies in Physics or Chemistry in the midwest? No problem. Advertisers value this feature, but so does anyone hoping to influence our discourse.

Locating people goes beyond "buying an audience" for an ad. Activists who want to reach people who care about their issues can use this feature to mobilize them in support of their causes. Queer people who don't know anyone who is out can find online communities to help them understand and develop their own identities. People living with chronic diseases can talk about their illnesses with others who share their problems.

This precision is good for anyone who's got a view that outside of the mainstream, including people who have views we don't agree with or causes we oppose. Big Tech can help you find people to cooperate with you on racist or sexist harassment campaigns, or to foment hateful political movements.

A discourse requires participants: if you can't find anyone interesting in discussing an esoteric subject with you, you can't discuss it. Big Tech has radically altered our discourse by making it easy for people who want to talk about obscure subjects to find discussants, enabling conversations that literally never could have happened otherwise. Sometimes that's good and sometimes it's terrible, but it's absolutely different from any other time.

Secrecy

Some conversations are risky. Talking about your queer sexuality in an intolerant culture can get you ostracized or subject you to harassment and violence. Talking about your affinity for cannabis in a place where it isn't legal to consume can get you fired or even imprisoned.

The fact that many online conversations take place in private spaces means that people can say things they would otherwise keep to themselves for fear of retribution.

Not all of these things are good. Being caught producing deceptive political ads can get you in trouble with an election regulator and also send supporters to your opponents. Advertising that your business discriminates on the basis of race or gender or sexuality can get you boycotted or sued, but if you can find loopholes that allow you to target certain groups that agree with your discriminatory agenda, you can win their business.

Secrecy allows people to say both illegal and socially unacceptable things to people who agree with them, greatly reducing the consequences for such speech. This is why private speech is essential for social progress, and it’s why private speech is beneficial to people fomenting hatred and violence. We believe in private speech and have fought for it for 30 years because we believe in its benefits—but we don't deny its costs.

Combined with targeting, secrecy allows for a very persuasive form of discourse, not just because you can commit immoral acts with impunity, but also because disfavored minorities can whisper ideas that are too dangerous to speak aloud.

Lying and/or Being Wrong

The concentration of the tech industry has produced a monoculture of answers. For many people, Google is an oracle, and its answers— the top search results—are definitive.

There's a good reason for that: Google is almost always right. Type "How long is the Brooklyn Bridge" into the search box and you'll get an answer that accords with both Wikipedia, and its underlying source, the 1967 report of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Sometimes, though, Google is tricked into lying by people who want to push falsehoods onto the rest of us. By systematically exploring Google's search-ranking system (a system bathed in secrecy and subjected to constant analysis by the Search Engine Optimization industry), bad actors can and do change the top results on Google, tricking the system into returning misinformation (and sometimes, it's just a stupid mistake).

This can be a very effective means of shifting our discourse. False answers from a reliable source are naturally taken at face value, especially when the false answer is plausible (adding or removing a few yards from the Brooklyn Bridge's length), or where the questioner doesn't really have any idea what the answer should be (adding tens of thousands of miles per second to the speed of light).

Even when Google isn't deliberately tricked into giving wrong answers, it can still give wrong answers. For example, when a quote is widely misattributed and later corrected, Google can take months or even years to stop serving up the misattribution in its top results. Indeed, sometimes Google never gets it right in cases like this, because the people who get the wrong answer from Google repeat it on their own posts, increasing the number of sources where Google finds the wrong answer.

This isn't limited to just Google, either. The narrow search verticals that Google doesn't control—dating sites, professional networking sites, some online marketplaces—generally dominate their fields, and are likewise relied upon by searchers who treat them as infallible, even though they might acknowledge that it's always wise to do so.

The upshot is that what we talk about, and how we talk about it, is heavily dependent on what Google tells us when we ask it questions. But this doesn't rely on Google changing our existing beliefs: if you know exactly what the speed of light is, or how long the Brooklyn Bridge is, a bad Google search result won't change your mind. Rather, this is about Google filling a void in our knowledge.

There's a secondary, related problem of "distinctive, disjunct idioms." Searching for "climate hoax" yields different results from searching for "climate crisis" and different results still from "climate change." Though all three refer to the same underlying phenomenon, they reflect very different beliefs about it. The term you use to initiate your search will lead you into a different collection of resources.

This is a longstanding problem in discourse, but it is exacerbated by the digital world.

"Sort by Controversial"

Ad-supported websites make their money from pageviews. The more pages they serve to you, the more ads they can show you and the more likely it is that they will show you an ad that you will click on. Ads aren't very effective, even when they're highly targeted, and the more ads you see, the more inured you become to their pitches, so it takes a lot of pageviews to generate a sustaining volume of clicks, and the number of pageviews needed to maintain steady revenue tends to go up over time.

Increasing the number of pageviews is hard: people have fixed time-budgets. Platforms can increase your "engagement" by giving you suggestions for things that will please you, but this is hard (think of Netflix's recommendation engine).

But platforms can also increase engagement by making you angry, anxious, or outraged, and these emotions are much easier to engender with automated processes. Injecting enervating comments, shocking images, or outlandish claims into your online sessions may turn you off in the long term, but in the short term, these are a reliable source of excess clicks.

This has an obvious impact on our discourse, magnifying the natural human tendency to want to weigh in on controversies about subjects that matter to you. It promotes angry, unproductive discussions. It's not mind control—people can choose to ignore these "recommendations" or step away from controversy—but platforms that deploy this tactic often take on a discordant, angry character.

Deliberate Censorship

Content moderation is very hard. Anyone who's ever attempted to create rules for what can and can't be posted quickly discovers that these rules can never be complete—for example, if you class certain conduct as "harassment," then you may discover that conduct that is just a little less severe than you've specified is also experienced as harassment by people on its receiving end.

As hard as this is, it gets much harder at scale, particularly when services cross-cultural and linguistic lines: as hard as it is to decide whether someone crosses the line when that person is from the same culture as you and is speaking your native language, it's much harder to interpret contributions from people of differing backgrounds, and language barriers add another layer of incredible complexity.

The rise of monolithic platforms with hundreds of millions (or even billions) of users means that a substantial portion of our public discourse is conducted under the shadow of moderation policies that are not—and cannot— be complete or well-administered.

Even if these policies have extremely low error rates—even if only one in a thousand deleted comments or posts is the victim of overzealous enforcement— systems with billions of users generate hundreds of billions of posts per day, and that adds up to many millions of acts of censorship every day.

Of course, not all moderation policies are good, and sometimes, moderation policies are worsened by bad legal regimes. For example, SESTA/FOSTA, a bill notionally aimed at ending human sexual trafficking, was overbroad and vague to begin with, and the moderation policies it has spawned have all but ended certain kinds of discussions of human sexuality in public forums, including some that achieved SESTA/FOSTA's nominal aim of improving safety for sex workers (for example, forums where sex workers kept lists of dangerous potential clients). These subjects were always subject to arbitrary moderation standards, but SESTA/FOSTA made the already difficult job of talking about sexuality virtually impossible.

Likewise, the Communications Decency Act's requirement for blacklists of adult materials on federally subsidized Internet connections (such as those in public schools and libraries) has foreclosed on access to a wealth of legitimate materials, including websites that offer information on sexual health and wellbeing, and on dealing with sexual harassment and assault.

Accidental Censorship

In addition to badly considered moderation policies, platforms are also prone to badly executed enforcement errors, in other words. Famously, Tumblr installed an automatic filter intended to block all "adult content" and this filter blocked innumerable innocuous images, from images of suggestive root vegetables to Tumblr's own examples of images that contained nudity but did not constitute adult content and would thus be ignored by its filters. Errors are made by both human and automated content moderators.

Sometimes, errors are random and weird, but some topics are more likely to give rise to accidental censorship than others: human sexuality, discussions by survivors of abuse and violence (especially sexual violence), and even people whose names or homes sound or look like words that have been banned by filters (Vietnamese people named Phuc were plagued by AOL's chat-filters, as were Britons who lived in Scunthorpe).

The systematic nature of this accidental censorship means that whole fields of discourse are hard or even impossible to undertake on digital platforms. These topics are the victims of a kind of machine superstition, a computer gone haywire that has banned them without the approval or intent of its human programmers, whose oversights, frailties and shortsightedness caused them to program in a bad rule, after which they simply disappeared from the scene, leaving the machine behind to repeat their error at scale.

Third-Party Censorship

Since the earliest days of digital networks, world governments have struggled with when and whether online services should be liable for what their users do. Depending on which country an online provider serves, they may be expected to block, or pre-emptively remove, copyright infringement, nudity, sexually explicit material, material that insults the royal family, libel, hate speech, harassment, incitements to terrorism or sectarian violence, plans to commit crimes, blasphemy, heresy, and a host of other difficult to define forms of communication.

These policies are hard for moderation teams to enforce consistently and correctly, but that job is made much, much harder by deliberate attempts by third parties to harass or silence others by making false claims about them.

In the simplest case, would-be censors merely submit false reports to platforms in hopes of slipping past a lazy or tired or confused moderator in order to get someone barred or speech removed.

However, as platforms institute ever-finer-grained rules about what is, and is not, grounds for removal or deletion, trolls gain a new weapon: an encyclopedic knowledge of these rules.

People who want to use platforms for good-faith discussions are at a disadvantage relative to "rules lawyers" who want to disrupt this discourse. The former have interests and jobs about which they want to communicate. The latter's interest and job is disrupting the discourse.

The more complex the rules become, the easier it is for bad-faith actors to find in them a reason to report their opponents, and the harder it is for good-faith actors to avoid crossing one of the ruleset's myriad lines.

Conclusion

The idea that Big Tech can mold discourse through bypassing our critical faculties by spying on and analyzing us is both self-serving (inasmuch as it helps Big Tech sell ads and influence services) and implausible, and should be viewed with extreme skepticism.

But you don't have to accept extraordinary claims to find ways in which Big Tech is distorting and degrading our public discourse. The scale of Big Tech makes it opaque and error-prone, even as it makes the job of maintaining a civil and productive space for discussion and debate impossible.

Big Tech's monopolies—with their attendant lock-in mechanisms that hold users' data and social relations hostage—remove any accountability that might come from the fear that unhappy users might switch to competitors.

The emphasis on curbing Big Tech's manipulation tactics through regulatory measures has the paradoxical effect of making it more expensive and difficult to enter the market with a Big Tech competitor. A regulation designed to curb Big Tech will come with costs that little tech can't possibly afford, and becomes a license to dominate the digital world disguised as a regulatory punishment for lax standards.

The scale—and dominance— of tech firms results in unequivocal, obvious, toxic public discourse. The good news is that we have tools to deal with this: breakups, merger scrutiny, limits on vertical integration. Perhaps after Big Tech has been cut down to size, we'll still find that there's some kind of machine-learning mesmerism that we'll have to address, but if that's the case, our job will be infinitely easier when Big Tech has been stripped of the monopoly rents it uses to defend itself from attempts to alter its conduct through policy and law.

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[finalgradecalc9-blog]

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New perspective of the godawful nonverbal alter discourse:

Nonverbal is the word people recognize to mean 'this person cannot speak'- that and 'mute'. The layman understands this, therapists understand this, they may use these for alters that cannot speak regardless of what us discoursers on the internet think.

Maybe im just Not Online Enough For This Discourse, but I feel like its worth taking into account the fact that this is just what. Its colloquially called.

We are all painted with the same cloth and maybe its worth understanding that nonverbal has colloquial meaning and has for awhile of being in a state of Not Being Able To Speak.

If you want every therapist to stop calling anyone but singlets who have never spoken nonverbal, great! Thats sure a position. But yelling at people on the internet using it colloquially the way culturally its used to mean other people who are Not Able To Speak isnt going to achieve that.

Its rearranging deck chairs on the titanic here, just like the 'stupid is a slur' discourse and the 'immature is a slur' discourse. We have bigger fish to fry than a word that CURRENTLY binds all those who experience being in a state of Not Being Able To Speak.

Also side note- every person being all 'your alters cant be nonverbal' has a different opinion on what words ARE ok. One will say 'mute isnt for you this is scientifically true!' another will say 'mute is what you should say'. One will say 'nonspeaking is fine' another will say 'nonspeaking is not for you this is scientifically true!'. Get your stories straight before you pitch it!

I think I will take the side of critical thinking outside of just automatically bowing to randos on the internet who cant even agree with each other and feel like they are just breaking the solidarity I felt with everyone who wasn't able to speak some or all of the time being united under one word in 2016 apart.

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what it is with some systems and being allergic to using a slightly different word

nonverbal people ask to not use the word nonverbal for individual headmates and it's "you're denying us personhood" (read: disabled people are making a very easy to follow request and you're throwing a fit about it)

people of colour ask to not use the word tulpa and it's "you're trying to tear the tulpa community apart" (read: people of colour are making a very easy to follow request and you're throwing a fit about it)

i promise you you'll live if you use one of the 50 alternatives presented to you instead of the ONE term marginalised people don't really want you to use

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We have been in the community for over a decade. These last few years, it's become a trend to fake that your headmates are nonverbal. This also means they'll be communicating in nothing but emojis on Discord, and it's so embarrassing to witness. At least some systems are aware enough to understand that nonverbal =/= being unable to express yourself through writing, and call it "nonscribal" instead, but even then... if you can't communicate through writing, why are you in a PLACE WHERE YOU COMMUNICATE THROUGH WRITING???

We are so tired of the community trends. Right now it's being nonverbal/scribal and inventing 3838 labels a week. We almost miss the school shooter factive trend of 2012, because it was legit less exhausting to deal with.

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It is honestly quite telling of how well someone listens to disabled people if they believe that the conversation around the term nonverbal is just a syscourse thing.

It is such a commonly discussed topic in the disabled community how people will misuse and water down terms that are not for them. The best example I can think of is hyperfixation. Hyperfixation is an ADHD specific term, where someone (for brief periods of time) becomes completely immersed in one singular focus. Hyperfixations last for a few seconds to a few hours. It is a specific term to describe a very specific experience. But people have watered it down to mean any sort of intense interest someone has for a couple of months. They have redefined and twisted an important term.

In fact, we see this sort of conversation regularly in the DID community! Essentially all of our terms have been co-opted by plurals who do not have DID or OSDD. System, alter, switch, the list goes on. It does do the thing disabled people want co-opting of terms to be avoided for, it redefines important terms to describe specific experiences. It also creates a lot of confusion around what the fuck people are talking about, whether system means someone with DID or someone who feels plural or what. I don't care to start an argument over if you think that people have a right to these terms or not, I ultimately do not believe it is an argument worth having. If you have DID/OSDD you are entitled to your opinion and I respect that, if you don't I know damn well you do not respect disabled people enough to listen when we say it harms us and I am done trying to convince people to care.

But essentially, it doesn't surprise me at all to hear that nonverbal has a specific meaning and belongs to a specific group, and that its meaning has been watered down by a bunch of assholes co-opting it. In fact, it made me remember years ago people talking about how 'going nonverbal' isn't a thing, how that term is not for you to use just because you can't speak sometimes.

The impact of you stealing words disabled people use and twisting their meanings is not just a plural issue. It is not people being mean to you for being plural. It is disabled people begging you to not make it harder for them to communicate their experiences and find community with others who have those same experiences. In particular with nonverbal people, who often times also are nonscribal, that's real fucking important in my opinion to not do. What? Do you expect them to craft a whole new word and community surrounding it to be able to explain their experiences and find those who share them? Just so you can use the 'nonverbal alter' instead of 'alter who can't talk'?

Fucking ridiculous seeing people acting like this is 'pluralphobia' or about people not viewing them as individual people. Not everything is about you. This is about the harm you are causing to nonverbal people because you just can't be fucked to say three extra words instead of nonverbal, or can't be fucked to say something like wordless alter.

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