the-glade-backrooms

[the-glade-backrooms]

Jesters on stage

[the-glade-backrooms]

Just letting everyone know that we’re changing this blog to be a backup account. We don’t want to delete it, but we’re officially fixing up our main account to accommodate all of us. Our main will now be known as “glade-constellation” and this account will change to “the-glade-backrooms” <3

[the-glade-backrooms]

Have other people had a brain-made alter suddenly become an “introject”? (We’re using quotation simply because he’s not really an introject, just changed? If that makes sense.)

For explanation, we have an alter named Gremlin. He was literally just a black void creature who mimicked other alters’ voices, and rarely sometimes appearances. They’ve been that way for years. Recently, though, that changed. We started watching a show with a character that acted almost exactly like Grem. If all the characters in the show were a system, that character would have the same exact role and mannerisms as him. The character even shapeshifted and mimicked another character in the show. Grem has suddenly started appearing around our inner world as this character, and now sounds like them too. He still does what he used to, but now they have their own voice and appearance when just being themself that isn’t just a void.

To us, he’s still a brain-made alter. Very few things have changed besides appearance, so it’s not like they’re suddenly a new person. We just haven’t really heard of this happening and wanted to know if this has happened to other systems.

[the-glade-backrooms]

We’re really switchy today but Rowan was out for a good while this morning and drew a portrait of himself. They draw eyes really pretty

[the-glade-backrooms]

What media comforts you the most?

How do you record system activity?

Are you a trauma-over-sharer or a take-my-trauma-to-my-graver?

From the ask meme ^^

1.) Our comfort media tends to change based on certain things since some of us have different interests than others, but we tend to have a main few. Transformers, FNAF, and Attack on Titan are probably our longest standing pieces of comfort media, but Supernatural is another close one. Honestly kind of funny that most of our comfort media tend to have pretty heavy topics.

2.) We use both Simply Plural and Discord. While we have all of our info saved and up to date on Simply Plural, we’re far more likely to remember to log who’s fronting on Discord since we’re most active there. We have a personal discord just for keeping up with system stuff that we’ll then input into Simply Plural when one of us remembers.

3.) Definitely an over sharer. We share too much. But we honestly see it as an explanation to certain behaviors we have. It’s easier for us to let people know we’re a system, because then people aren’t questioning why we’re always acting weird or different from how we were when they met us. And people often ask to be told about icks or discomforts so they don’t accidentally cross them, and some of our boundaries are pretty specific or odd. We do know when to shut our mouth and keep things close, but we tend to be more open to speaking on our trauma than most.

[the-glade-backrooms]

hi. we read your opinion post on why adhd/autistic systems splut fictives so easily, and we have a question. what about autistics who don't mask? i never learned to mask. i tried learning in middle school, but i gave up after a week cuz it was too tiring.

in our system of 9(or 10. one alter may be dormant/fused) we have 4 introjects and 5(or 6) originals.

we just wanna hear your opinion, since your post was surrounded on neurodivergent introject heavy systems who mask their nd-ness.

no pressure to answer btw. feel free to delete it if you want to lol

Post is question

I went back and read the post and wow we really did lay heavily into masking. Our mistake, we mask almost all the time and sometimes forget not everyone does. (Before I go any farther I just want to remind people that this is our own personal opinion, not fact. It’s simply based on personal experience or things we’ve seen several other systems talk about. Also, we are currently running off of very little sleep when writing this so we’re sorry if it’s written or conveyed in a weird way.)

I’m going to point at the spot where we explained that all alters are formed through introjection. Even singlets have their fair share of introjection. It’s not just a system trait. The things with systems is that sometimes our traits don’t come from several different sources, it can come from one or a few very specific sources. People who hyperfixate or have special interests tend to be hot wired to one source of entertainment to begin with, so ADHD/Autistic system brains probably don’t think to look for traits outside of their current constant intake from one source. There’s also the fact that people with ADHD/Autism usually find comfort in their current hyperfixations or special interests, so a system might decided comfort is the best way to handle a situation and split an comfort introject.

Splitting a “comfort” introject is 100% a plausible thing that happens. If a system is under stress or is going through trauma, it’s possible that the brain decides comfort is the best way to handle it and splits an alter specifically for that. As an AuDHD system, we’ve had personal experience with comfort splits. We have a very bad habit of using our hyperfixations as escape mechanisms so when we get overly stressed or go through something traumatic our brain handles it by trying to make our hyperfixations real. Our problem with this is that our introjects then tend to be very connected to their source and it’s hard to get them source separated, but that’s for a different post.

[the-glade-backrooms]

It’s 5:30 in the morning but we can’t sleep and remembered that our inbox is a things. These asks are all probably months old but hey we’re gonna answer them because we need something to do rn

[the-glade-backrooms]

DID/OSDD1 Ask Meme But It Isn’t Just About Alters

1. How old were you when you found out you had DID/OSDD? 2. What symptom disrupts your day to day life the most? 3. What is your favorite grounding tool? 4. What has your experience with therapy been like? 5. How often do you switch? 6. What does recovery mean for you? 7. What aspect of recovering do you look forward to the most? 8. What is a day in the life of your system look like? 9. What is your external support system like? 10. How do you record system activity? 11. How does dissociation feel for you? 12. What music do you relate to your disorder? 13. What has your experience with the DID/OSDD community been like? 14. What media comforts you the most? 15. Are there any popular coping/grounding tools that don’t work for you? 16. How does DID/OSDD affect you physically? 17. What aspect of recovery are you working on right now? 18. What co-morbid conditions interact with your DID/OSDD the most? 19. Are you a trauma-over-sharer or a take-my-trauma-to-my-graver? 20. How much progress towards stability or recovery have you made since finding out about having DID/OSDD? 21. What does safety mean for you? 22. Are there any emotions you struggle with experiencing or are isolated elsewhere in the system? 23. How do you comfort distressed alters? 24. Do you prefer internal (like thought and feeling) or external (like written notes) communication with alters? 25. What makes you happy?

[the-glade-backrooms]

​Reestablishing that THE CANON IS DEFINITELY BAD REPRESENTATION!!!!!!! I do not support calling the canon representation. I just wish there was more fanon representation, because seeing them as DID/OSDD coded brings us, as a system, comfort. I’m also tired of seeing people getting attacked when they genuinely meant no harm.

This is kind of just me ranting about how a fandom treats a system-coded character and how I have a love hate relationship with it, so don’t mind it if you aren’t interested in reading about FNAF or my own personal opinions on it.

I sometimes forget the fact that the canonical version of the Daycare Attendant in FNAF: SB plays right into harmful DID/OSDD stereotypes. One, because they’re a sub-system within my system and have source memories completely different from canon. Two because I have tried over and over to figure out ways in canon that they are a system where Moon isn’t actually playing into the evil alter stereotype. It’s a comfort thing, I know, for both me and them, but in a way I feel like that’s hurting the community. So many people online say “don’t headcanon this character as having DID/OSDD or you’re a bad person for pushing harmful stereotypes”.

I myself am part of a system. I know how detrimental these types of stereotypes are. I’ve actively seen people, in real life, fear systems because of something stupid they saw in media. I don’t want to say “this is system-coded” about potentially harmful media. But at the same time, Moon Knight is the best representation we have out there. One of the only good representations I should say, and even that was dramatically overdone to keep viewers watching. When I find a piece of media that I can see as being DID/OSDD coded, I have a bad habit of latching on and not letting go because seeing that representation is just rare. So when I saw Sun and Moon I just clicked. It didn’t help that I was going through my system discovering around the games release date and it was probably the first time I saw a piece of media (outside of the movie we all hate with a passion) that had hints of DID/OSDD representation.

I am 100% on board with saying that singlets shouldn’t headcanon characters as DID/OSDD coded. I feel like that really should be true for any mental disorder. If you don’t have it, you don’t get a say in how it’s represented. But at the same time, I don’t think we should be attacking people over it when they aren’t even thinking about how Moon acted. Most people who see multiple people in one body are going to think of DID. Most people don’t even know the evil alter stereotypes exists, because they don’t engage in system spaces. I certainly didn’t, not until we started engaging in them. Being rude to people who genuinely meant no harm is just going to make us look bad. You can still say “hey, as a system, here’s why this is wrong”, but don’t start saying that you hate everyone who does it and harass them over it. If they continue to push it, that’s a different story, but most people are genuinely shocked when I explain to them that certain characters are terrible representations of DID/OSDD.

Anyways, I also hate the fact that there’s no representation of Sun and Moon being a system in the fan base either. I’ve seen several systems who claim Sun and Moon as a system for comfort reasons, but I never see them try to fix the bad part of the representation. If there was an AU where the bad parts of the representation were fixed I’d latch onto it in a heartbeat. I honestly don’t see why people don’t do that. Tell people what’s wrong, fix it, and then give them a version that they are able to actually see and understand. Make sure they don’t advertise the actual canon as having good representation, but there’s a really good AU to look into if you are looking for good representation.

This is just me rambling so idk. It’s almost 6:00 in the morning and I haven’t slept. If you read through all that mess, Sunny says have a gold star ⭐️

[the-glade-backrooms]

This is kind of just me ranting about how a fandom treats a system-coded character and how I have a love hate relationship with it, so don’t mind it if you aren’t interested in reading about FNAF or my own personal opinions on it.

I sometimes forget the fact that the canonical version of the Daycare Attendant in FNAF: SB plays right into harmful DID/OSDD stereotypes. One, because they’re a sub-system within my system and have source memories completely different from canon. Two because I have tried over and over to figure out ways in canon that they are a system where Moon isn’t actually playing into the evil alter stereotype. It’s a comfort thing, I know, for both me and them, but in a way I feel like that’s hurting the community. So many people online say “don’t headcanon this character as having DID/OSDD or you’re a bad person for pushing harmful stereotypes”.

I myself am part of a system. I know how detrimental these types of stereotypes are. I’ve actively seen people, in real life, fear systems because of something stupid they saw in media. I don’t want to say “this is system-coded” about potentially harmful media. But at the same time, Moon Knight is the best representation we have out there. One of the only good representations I should say, and even that was dramatically overdone to keep viewers watching. When I find a piece of media that I can see as being DID/OSDD coded, I have a bad habit of latching on and not letting go because seeing that representation is just rare. So when I saw Sun and Moon I just clicked. It didn’t help that I was going through my system discovering around the games release date and it was probably the first time I saw a piece of media (outside of the movie we all hate with a passion) that had hints of DID/OSDD representation.

I am 100% on board with saying that singlets shouldn’t headcanon characters as DID/OSDD coded. I feel like that really should be true for any mental disorder. If you don’t have it, you don’t get a say in how it’s represented. But at the same time, I don’t think we should be attacking people over it when they aren’t even thinking about how Moon acted. Most people who see multiple people in one body are going to think of DID. Most people don’t even know the evil alter stereotypes exists, because they don’t engage in system spaces. I certainly didn’t, not until we started engaging in them. Being rude to people who genuinely meant no harm is just going to make us look bad. You can still say “hey, as a system, here’s why this is wrong”, but don’t start saying that you hate everyone who does it and harass them over it. If they continue to push it, that’s a different story, but most people are genuinely shocked when I explain to them that certain characters are terrible representations of DID/OSDD.

Anyways, I also hate the fact that there’s no representation of Sun and Moon being a system in the fan base either. I’ve seen several systems who claim Sun and Moon as a system for comfort reasons, but I never see them try to fix the bad part of the representation. If there was an AU where the bad parts of the representation were fixed I’d latch onto it in a heartbeat. I honestly don’t see why people don’t do that. Tell people what’s wrong, fix it, and then give them a version that they are able to actually see and understand. Make sure they don’t advertise the actual canon as having good representation, but there’s a really good AU to look into if you are looking for good representation.

This is just me rambling so idk. It’s almost 6:00 in the morning and I haven’t slept. If you read through all that mess, Sunny says have a gold star ⭐️

[the-glade-backrooms]

“I think I stole all of Stevie’s he/him and she stole all my she/her.” - Tenebrous

[the-glade-backrooms]

On a funny note, the first thing I heard Eddie say when he was back in front was “oh fuck, I’m back”, and I wasn’t prepared to hear the word fuck because Sun hates cussing so I froze in utter shock

[the-glade-backrooms]

Genuine question

Why is it that when we hyperfixate on a piece of media we have introjects from, those introjects become frontstuck for the first few days of the hyperfixation? We’re hyperfixated on FNAF: SB again and Sun and Moon have been frontstuck for three days straight. No one else has been able to access the front. Eddie was pretty much just let back into front, and he’s a co-host. This happens every time. Does this happen to any other system?

[the-glade-backrooms]

can people like... not put sexual headcanons in fucking fictive tags, please?

[the-glade-backrooms]

I sometimes question if I’m a terrible person, someone who can never be seen as good and will forever been seen as an evil monster.

I remind myself that that is my trauma talking, and I am a beautiful living creature who, despite all the scarring, is thriving outside of the pain I used to feel daily.

You are not broken or cursed or damned. A seed must first crack to become the flower it was meant to be. You are simply feeling the growing pains.

[the-glade-backrooms]

Apologies to anyone who read that last post, we’re better now! We had two triggering things happen one right after the other and it was a mess but that’s for us to deal with and not you guys, sorry!

[the-glade-backrooms]

dear systems who say they have OSDD-1b but have amnesia,

I urge you to read the DSM-V diagnostic criteria for DID. if you are experiencing amnesia of any kind, you most likely have DID, not OSDD-1b. 

this is a quote directly from the DSM-V criteria:

“Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.”

it does not say that you need blackout switching amnesia, or even any kind of switching amnesia at all. do you frequently find yourself unable to clearly remember everyday events? that’s amnesia. 

and guess what? amnesia from childhood does count as dissociative amnesia! here’s another quote directly from the DSM-V:

“The dissociative amnesia of individuals with dissociative identity disorder manifests in three primary ways: as 1) gaps in remote memory of personal life events (e.g., periods of childhood or adolescence; some important life events, such as the death of a grandparent, getting married, giving birth) …”

this means that, yes, amnesia from your childhood (that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting) is dissociative amnesia.

still think that your amnesia isn’t bad enough? check out this quote which is - you guessed it - also from the DSM-V:

“Individuals with dissociative identity disorder vary in their awareness and attitude toward their amnesias. It is common for these individuals to minimize their amnestic symptoms.”

it’s all too common for people to minimize their symptoms, and amnesia is yet another symptom that is commonly minimized. 

lastly, I’d like to show you the DSM-V’s definition of OSDD-1:

“Chronic and recurrent syndromes of mixed dissociative symptoms: This category includes identity disturbance associated with less-than-marked discontinuities in sense of self and agency, or alterations of identity or episodes of possession in an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia.”

I have underlined the part that refers to OSDD-1b. you’ll note that it doesn’t say “an individual who reports a little bit of dissociative amnesia”. it says “an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia.”

therefore, if you are experiencing dissociative amnesia, you more than likely have DID. it’s okay if your amnesia isn’t “severe” or if you don’t have blackout amnesia - that doesn’t mean you don’t have DID.

sincerely,

a DID system that used to think he was a OSDD-1b system but then realized that, oh shit, not remembering anything before you’re 10 is actually not normal, and neither is having your memories of recent events being super blurry and difficult if not impossible to recall. whoops.

⚠ this post was created by an anti-endo system. endos can reblog, but do not clown. this post is about DID and OSDD-1b, not non-disordered systems. ⚠