#programmed system

[perma-compulsive]

”I want to know your headcount” “I want to know who’s fronting” so do I, get in line

[deitiesinpurgatory]

A system is a collection of alters. Alters are chronically dissociated self states or ego states, with different neurological pathways that are often accompanied by a varying degree of amnesia. Dissociation is caused by stress/trauma and in many cases other mental illnesses. Alters are a byproduct of dissociating from the trauma that occurred that caused your ego states to not form into one. You can’t dissociate from trauma you do not have. You will not form DID/Parts without trauma, as the brain would not purposely sabotage itself.

You cannot be a system without trauma. Argue with your mama about it :)

[egotisticenigma]

「　REMNANTS ?!   ｣

➜ @ a term for an alter who isn’t the core/original, but rather the remains/remnants of who it was. whatever was left of the core who intergrated with fragments.

(mainly for RAMCOA/TBMC survivors)

[coining-system-terms]

This [noun] can say "fuck"

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[ghost-jester-sys]

shout out to programmed / ramcoa systems who...

- can never fully mentally mature

- were made to mature too young

- know and remember nothing or just snippets

- know and remember everything or most things

- can't currently access therapy for safety or personal reasons

- are currently in therapy

[outnumberedsins]

What "Counts" as OEA?

I saw a post that disgruntled me enough to want to talk about this, so here we are. There seems to be a heavy amount of misinformation on what "counts" as OEA, often excluding adult victims and non-programmed victims. So, within this post, we'll go over what the terms "OA, MC, and RA" mean, as well as commonly construed myths.

Organized Abuse

all-encompassing.

Organized abuse is a wide term that includes experiences of ritual abuse and mind control but is in no way exclusive to them. Often, only organized child sexual abuse is mentioned, which leaves out a lot of experiences it includes.

The most simple definition of organized abuse is "Abuse that involves a number of people doing something together in a pre-planned and/or structured way, rather than acting alone." In short terms, abuse done by multiple people in a planned way. [1]

All groups under the RAMCOA/OEA label will fall under this category. This includes, but is not limited to, Cults, Trafficking Rings, Labor Camps, "Troubled Teen" Camps, Intra-Familial Organized Abuse, and other experiences that fall under this definition. This includes victims indoctrinated into cults, trafficked, or otherwise abused as adults, as well as children born or brought into it. Location of the abuse (at home, in a church, at school, at a daycare, etc) doesn't matter, and someone does not have to go through ritual abuse or mind control to have experienced organized abuse.

Ritual Abuse

not inherently satanic.

Ritual abuse is a term often confused with SRA, or "Satanic Ritual Abuse," an outdated and often harmful label for forms of organized extreme abuse. Not all forms of organized abuse are ritual abuse.

Ritual abuse can be defined as "Abuse that occurs in a context where symbols or activities have superstitious, supernatural, or religious connotations. It is organised, often involving multiple perpetrators, and the abuse often happens as part of a rite or ceremony." Alternatively, the word 'ritual' refers to "a rite, ceremony or pseudo- religious service which involves a series of actions performed in a fixed order and/or at certain times; something that is done in the same way whenever a particular situation occurs." [1] [2]

Because of this, ritual abuse can be defined while including spiritual themes and non spiritual themes. So, many definitions include other forms of abuse that is ritualized/specifically repeated in nature, such as on a specific day or time or in a specific order.

This type of abuse is most dominated in literature by satanic overtones, once again from the term SRA. However, this is not exclusive to satanic cults. Any group based on a belief system or using other reoccurring themes/abuse can perpetrate ritual abuse. Though ritual abuse is also more commonly linked with mind control and child abuse, programming and age have no impact on if an experience is ritual abuse or not.

Survivors of ritual abuse include things like ritualistic ceremonies, games, symbols, set-ups, abuse on specific days/holidays, abuse in a specific order, etc as common experiences.

Mind Control

programming and beyond

Mind control tends to be the term that receives the most problems, as many people tend to only think of programming when hearing it. However, MC is not exclusive to programming survivors, and many types of MC have been recognized.

A good definition of MC is "Methods of thought reform to force submission or information from enemies and victims, or to indoctrinate and increase cooperation in members and captors," and is a synonym to coersive persuasion, defined as "attempts to force people to change beliefs, ideas, attitudes or behaviors using psychological pressure, undue influence, threats, anxiety, and/or intimidation." [3] [4]

Programming is an example of the far end of mind control, a severe form of conditioning. However, things such as cult and religious indoctrination, psychic driving, terrified submission, etc, are all also forms of MC that can occur within organized abuse. MC is not exclusive to child victims, as most forms of MC can be performed at any age.

Thank you for reading. If you have any questions or additions, feel free to send an ask or reply to this post. A reminder that I am not a professional, I am flawed, and I am just doing my best.

[starlitvases]

I'm so tired of joining syscord servers and seeing "fusion" and "integration" and "dormancy" on blacklists. Those terms are quite literally indicative of healing. It means I'm healing and I'm not as traumatized from being thoroughly abused. Why the fuck do I need to censor my healing? Why do I need to censor when GOOD things happen to me? Fuck syscord for having this notion that fusion, integration, and dormancy are bad things

[heavens-roses]

Octocon and RAMCOA survivors

pt: octocon and RAMCOA survivors

cw: RAMCOA, number names

Felt I should share this as I haven't really seen it talked about in system or RAMCOA spaces. When you use Octocon your parts will be attached numbers to each part based off who was created first. While it's likely due to how to code the easiest. it is important to remember that if you are a survivor who has parts who were forced to be called a number, are a survivor who was called a number collectively/bodily, forced to refer to others as numbers or has any trauma related to number names please tread carefully.

I know as a survivor it can be extremely scary not being able to control your name or having anxieties related to not being called your number too. Please know you are not forced to use Octocon just because other people are using it. If plural kit or simply plural work best for you than keep using them. You do not need to switch over and risk your own mental health. Being a survivor who was dehumanized to numbers is horrible and whether you decide to reclaim your trauma or are healing by moving away from it know your triggers are valid.

Know you are never alone in healing your trauma and note this post is for education. This is not to bash in the creators of Octocon nor is it to tell you how to feel about the app/bot. At the end of the day how you find support with yourself is for only you and your system to decide. With thet being said do not interact with this post if you are pro/neu-endo / believe in any form of "plurality" outside of being trauma based. If you are a questioning system, a cdd system who is syscourse unaligned or apathetic you are more than welcome to repost and interact.

[milo-by-the-fishtank]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if trauma plays a role in your transition that is 100% valid. If your transition is solely because of your trauma that’s valid to.

I can’t tell you how often victims of trauma (but especially sexual trauma) get their transition blame solely on our trauma. And the more I have thought about it over the years, the fact this point gets brought up to shame or neglectly depicted our transition. The more I have realized this type of gotcha to trans people is just part of transphobia and victim blaming culture.

We have been told by multiple doctors and therapists that we are only trans because of our trauma

My system is causes by trauma I know that as a fact, my system affects my identity, my gender is a part of my identity. And thus my trauma did in part cause me to be trans.

I love you, you deserve the world

[thecoffeecrew404]

SYSTEM PROFILE EVENT

We’re doing a major Simply Plural overhaul, and every reblog on this post helps us move faster. (We seriously need to get peer pressured.)

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Update a member’s emoji

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Update a member’s description

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Organize basic folders

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Add color themes and birthdays

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Upload an icon as a mask template

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Organize extra folders

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Update basic custom fields

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Complete a member’s face claims

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Update extra custom fields

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Create a member’s links if they don’t already have them (Pinterest board, playlist, Rentry page)

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• Every 20 fully completed profiles: We’ll post a small profile preview of someone

• Every 50 fully completed profiles: We’ll draw somebody a new face claim and post it

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• Only reblogs count for progress.

• Spam is allowed, but please keep reblogs to 5 or fewer per person so the post doesn’t get flagged. Make sure to add different tags each time too.

The old one got taken down for spam

[hollowandcoldanddark]

this post uses parts and alters language and touches on topics of abuse.

how much comprehension do your littles, syskids, whatever have of the world? even your normal parts? this is a step that i don't hear talked about a lot so... i am making a post about it.

in any system setting, it can be easy to forget that some alters may have very limited and warped worldviews (including hosts), but especially littles and other small parts. not understanding the world around you because of specialisation can make fronting and living terrifying. this can result in negative interactions, miscommunication and fights.

if you, as a child, had never seen a car before, or a dog, then seeing them for the first time unprepared can be super scary. on the converse, learning about new things can be enriching/freeing for alters who might have been living with constant fear based on false assumptions or things that abusers said.

moving to an oea/ramcoa/whatever - do you know how easy it is to convince a vulnerable part with limited/no life experience that you are all powerful?

my favourite example of this is the weather app. my abusers would tell parts that they were gods and all powerful and could change the weather and predict it, days before it happened. alters would be terrified when it rained because they were convinced it was an intentional sign or punishment.

this is not magic. its just deception. they didnt know about the weather app or the news, meterologists, or anything. by providing more information to parts, you can provide new context to their life experiences

same with issues such as going to school/work (do people know about the trains/buses/your car? are they scared of the road? do they know where you're going in the morning?), being sick (do people know that many people will recover from illnesses?) or trying new foods

a lot of the time, alters just dont know. and thats not their fault. and its a good place to start.

[themurdersc3ne]

ART FOR OUR SYSTEM SERVER

Our mascot! His name is Scitter and he’s a C-DID system :3

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[deitiesinpurgatory]

It is not racist to say that endos are not real. Endos appropriate eastern religions all of the time in order to fit their narrative of being a “system”

[egotisticenigma]

「　SHACKLED ?!   ｣

➜ @ a term made for two alters who were made/programmed for eachother. this is a negative term made for programmed systems/alters who have survived RAMCOA/TBMC. This relationship can be handler/programmed or two programmed alters for any type (mostly found in beta, epsilon, twin, kappa, scapeboat programming)

(RAMCOA/TBMC EXCLUSIVE)

[coining-system-terms]

This [noun] is a person not a problem. Stop trying to "fix" them.

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[ghost-jester-sys]

Shout out to...

introject heavy systems

systems with no introjects

polyfragmented systems

pw-OSDD or PDID and any other overlooked CDD system

systems with low headcounts

systems with high headcounts

RAMCOA systems

programmed systems

TBMC systems

OEA systems

systems that live in poverty

systems that have no irl or online friends

systems that need more support than their peers

cluster A systems

cluster B systems

cluster C systems

ALL systems. this list hardly encapsulates all the different systems. we should be uplifting and supporting eachother in spite of everything.