bellaswancourse

[bellaswancourse]

if you happily join servers for both kin and introjects, and you happily mingle with spiritual kinfolk...

consider accepting systems and system members who believe their exomemories happened in a past life.

if we were not a system, we would be a spiritual kinnie with many kintypes. we believe that, to cope with our trauma, our brain formed people using our past lives as source material. due to always having this crutch of past lives to draw on, our brain is very bad at forming original folks and very good at forming copies. therefore, we sometimes form an introject that has pseudomemories instead of past life memories. we can tell the difference.

many of our ostensibly original members-- including core people who have been around since we were a small child-- have past life memories and are actually introjects of a past life. we have very few active members who are completely original to this life and not an introject of a past life.

if a singlet can be spiritual kin, so can a system. if a singlet can believe in past lives in a way that colours their identity, so can a system. to claim otherwise is to say that, in becoming a system, we lost the right to determine our own spiritual beliefs and the ability to think critically about what we believe.

if you don't believe system members can have past life memories, but you tolerate kinfolk as harmless, you need to tolerate system members with past life memories as well.

system members proselytising their spiritual beliefs to other systems is an entirely different act. do not conflate the two by calling our spirituality "misinformation"

[bellaswancourse]

like this post to remind me to find and read dell's critique of structural dissociation

[bellaswancourse]

a note for anyone who makes "how to spot a faker" lists

read kluft's 1991 paper "Clinical Presentations of Multiple Personality Disorder" and see how many of your "signs of a fake system" are documented presentations written down over 30 years ago

i'll probably end up posting a summary of it at some point but im too busy right now

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the fact that some endogenic/non-disordered systems start out their syscovery by appropriating traumagenic/disordered terminology is due to the invisibility of endogenic plurality in the public consciousness. it is not a malicious act. it is sometimes even a direct result of people saying it's impossible to be a system without a disorder.

if you know youre a system and everyone is telling you that the only possible way to be a system is to have DID/OSDD/etc, the logical conclusion to make is that you have one of those disorders.

then once you start talking about your experiences and people yell at you for spreading misinformation about DID/OSDD/etc, its like... well what do sysmeds expect? if you tell other systems that they have to be disordered or they arent real, obviously you are going to get some non-disordered systems who take your word for it and start thinking of their non-disordered experiences as disordered.

the "problem" of endogenic systems is a result of several things. mostly, it isnt the fault of sysmeds or annoyed traumagenic systems, it's due to the fact that most people dont know about any kind of plurality except DID, so a questioning plural is very unlikely to know anything else to google to find out more. in order to solve this, we need more visibility for endogenic and non-disordered plurality. we need education campaigns that inform people that plurality can be a debilitating disorder AND just the way someone is, and it depends on the person/system.

however, even though it isn't the only cause of the issue, sysmedicalism does contribute to the spread of misinformation about DID/OSDD/etc by denying the possibility of different kinds of systemhood.

imagine a world where instead of reacting to misinformation with fakeclaiming, people tell other systems to look into endogenic and healthy plurality

this is why alliance between traumagenic and endogenic systems is so important to me. we have to know about each other and accept each other so that we can redirect systems who would be happier in other spaces (this does not mean complete segregation; im a traumagenic system who is most happy in endogenic spaces)

(this post is transplanted from the replies of @rayssyscourse ; sorry for dropping an essay on an unrelated post)