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{I'm going to post this as it's own thing as well, since I'm pretty proud of it. This is in response to "The Future is Plural" and those who respond with The Future is Singlet. This entire thing is aimed at anti-endos, and I think is an important read for them. I also wanted it to reach my normal audiance as well, since a lot of you probably have some of the tags I tagged the original as blocked.}

"The future is singlet" goes back to what I reblogged earlier, which I doubt y’all would see since it’s a pro-endo post. Nobody is asking for there to be more abused kids. If they are, they probably aren’t speaking in good faith on this argument or they have something else they need to work through.

Let’s say that we know, 100% for a fact, the only way to be a system is through trauma. There is still use for you in that phrase. The point of “the future is plural” is not what it says on the tin, as you've shown. We’re not asking for there to be more systems, if we’re thinking strictly in your terms. We’re asking for it to be believed; for it to be taken seriously. We want it to be normalized in the way where if someone says “hey I’m plural” we believe them. We want there to be more understanding and less hate. We want to ensure that those ahead of us don’t have to face what we have, and that what those before us have done was not in vain.

You know why it’s not okay for clinicians to abuse their patients with DID? It’s not because they woke up one day and decided “maybe we shouldn’t be treating our patients like this.” It’s because activists before us did their job. Back in the ‘80s there were so many fucked up practices being done to those with DID, named MPD at that time. Which I must include because it is pertinent to the history of our disorder. Law suits have been brought to court and have been won over these practices. Now, while we are quite a bit better in terms of clinicians that specialize in DID, we aren’t in terms of the general population. They may still believe we are voilent and scary. They may still believe that it’s not a real disorder. They may still believe that it’s just like what they see on TV. Which, as everyone here knows, it isn’t.

We want to make sure they understand that we are humans, too. While we may be many, we aren’t terrible or lying or any number of things others who have no experience with DID think. We, as a community, deserve better. We deserve to be believed. We deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

And so, I bring it back to one of my first points. Even if we were arguing for there to be more systems, it’s not in the way you desperately want to believe. It’s not begging for more traumatized children. It’s not through pain and suffering. Its a call for pride on all sides. It’s also recognition of the systems that just happen, it’s to celebrate the beauty of those who found their plurality and aren’t traumatized like you or I. You can believe that systems and dissociation ONLY form from trauma, but you wouldn’t be right. To the end where even Dr. Collin A. Ross, one of, if not THE leading researcher in the field, outright states that there are those out there who have been diagnosed with DID and who struggle with dissociation who have no trauma history. He himself has said that there are even people who are multiple that would not fit the criteria or don’t have the difficulty that those with DID must to experience for it to be the disorder it is. (Thanks sysmedsaresexist!)

If you won’t listen to those who experience endogenic plurality, if you won’t listen to those who have done research and have still come to this conclusion, if you won’t listen to those leading in the field of trauma and dissociation, then who will you listen to? How will you be able to make sure you’re not spreading the same misinformation and hate that the phrase “The future is plural” is a desperate plea to combat? How are you better than the endogenic systems you want to demonize so badly?

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Don’t give up! Keep going! Keep vibing! Keep learning and growing together! Keep exploring your plurality and living your authentic lives as systems! ALL systems belong in the plural community! ALL systems deserve to be supported and uplifted!

(And yes this means you, endogenic systems, questioning systems, mixed origins systems, xeno origins systems, and systems who don’t use any labels at all! And you, traumatized systems who don’t perfectly fit the mold of DID/OSDD! And you, systems with unique ways of living and presenting your plurality! We love you we love you we love you!!!)

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In light of all the anti-endos coming out of the woodwork, I made a blinkie for people to show support for all systems! Feel free to use it wherever so long as you're genuinely supportive.

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we say the future is plural,

that there will be widespread acceptance for systems of all kinds.

this future would be kind to all

if it is,

every day, plurals would work alongside singlets and not be seen differently

every plural formed from trauma would get the help they need

those who abuse plurals would get more consequences

every friend loving and accepting

every doctor is kind and considerate of all

every priest sees it as an expression of spiritual strength

everyone to see plurals as fellow humans

every water will help you stay afloat

our future is a dream, a wish for acceptance and understanding

i hope the future is full of acceptance for all

i hope the future is full of love for plurals and those who love them

i hope the future is plural.

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sorry for the syscourse on this blog over the past day or so, I'm just sick to the back teeth of anti-endos and Ass-pen fans waving around sui-bait and death threats like it's nothing.

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"The Future is Plural"

"The Future is Plural" People could want this Yall want people I would love to be the lucky ones Headmates for fun! We like having introjects in this headspace everyday Endos need to be here with us

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After seeing a post or two about "the future is singlet not plural" and a few other criticisms of the phrase, I wanted to toss my confused two cents in to ask for clarification.

I thought "the future is plural" was meant for like. DID & OSDD awareness to destigmatize the disorders.

That it was about how the future should allow for systems to seek healthcare as they need, and allowing the idea that final fusion and functional multiplicity can coexist as options for systems.

I don't think anyone should be traumatized to make the future plural. For us, The Future is Plural is about accepting systems and multiples that already exist and will form anyway and fighting for space in the world.

For example, when I told my friend I was trans she went "oh cool, so do you have a preferred name?"

When I told her I was a system, she became very uncomfortable. She was worried and didn't want to talk to others. She said it was okay as long as they didn't talk to her and I was the "original."

Seeing as I am not the original host or personality, but I have been our host and for several years now, this experience fucking sucked. It took a lot of trust to open up to her about this fact only for her to immediately jump to conclusions and show her biases.

I would have much preferred if she had just said "oh cool, so what's your name? Or is it the same?"

The future is plural to me means that saying "I have DID" isn't met with horror. Sympathy and pity, sure, the same way someone would if you said you had PTSD. It sucks to be a system sometimes and it sucks [understatement] to be traumatized to the point of splitting. But i don't want people to be scared of us/angry at us for existing.

We deserve to exist without being afraid.

Being told the future is plural is reassuring because it promises research and community and hope. Spreading trauma is not the point, and we honestly don't know what to think of the idea that it was ever intended as the point.

Am I misunderstanding this?

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Make no mistake, the future IS plural!

Even if steps forward feel small and incremental at times, we're making those steps together.

We're seeing more research into endogenic plurality with each passing year. As we gain more support, anti-endos continue to lose ground.

Right here on Tumblr, there's been a pretty massive shift in syscourse over the past few years where most anti-endos have abandoned origin discourse entirely.

Bit by bit, we're winning, even if it doesn't always seem like it. And every single one of you out there are helping just by being yourselves.

We are not going to be ignored.

We are not going to be silenced.

The future is plural, and it will be ours to seize!

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Shout out to systems that are constantly harassed by ableists.

Shout out to systems that are used as a 'gotcha' for being different.

Shout out to systems that have trouble with empathy.

Shout out to systems that experience psychosis.

Shout out to systems that have delusions.

Shout out to systems that can't tell what is and isn't real.

You're a part of this community too.

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Just a reminder that endogenic systems as a whole are NOT your enemy. Sure, there are a few bad apples among them, but they're not who we should be against.

Rather, we should be against the people that demonise systems, that treat us like we're delusional or don't exist. That call our communities "groomers" for being true to ourselves. That makes mockeries of us to reinforce their own beliefs.

... To be honest, all of that reminds me of something... OH YEAH, those are all things that sysmeds and other anti-endos have said and done.

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i swear our memory is only getting worse. Where the hell did our ability to rember go? Also I'm low-key not feeling great bc mum got pissed at us because we misunderstood a bunch of stuff and I'm currently just <:(

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>:3

as soon as we get money in this back account it's over for you cunts

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as soon as we get money in this back account it's over for you cunts

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helloooo hi. wanted to make a positivity post for systems that relates to. gender.

— shoutout to systems who are trans as part of their collective identity or masking identity!

— shoutout to systems where most alters have different genders!

— shoutout to alters whos perception of their gender doesn't match their outerworld body!

— shoutout to levian/eclian/azlian alters!

— shoutout to introjects with different gender than their source!

— shoutout to alters who showed up identifying as one gender, but later identified as another, for any reason at all!

— shoutout to alters who identity as more than one gender!

— shoutout to alters with no gender!

— shoutout to alters with genders others have a hard time understanding!

— shoutout to trans alters in general!

— shoutout to non-human alters whose non-humanity affects their gender!

— shoutout to systems and alters whos plurality affects their gender in any way!

— shoutout to systems who can't express or talk about their gender because they aren't out!

— shoutout to alters who are the only alter of a specific gender in their system!

— shoutout to systems and alters who use more obscure labels to describe their gender!

— shoutout to systems and alters who coin their own terms to talk about their gender!

hope you enjoyed :D gender is a personal topic to me as im eclian/ecligender myself, and thats... quite a difficult label to describe to singlets, methinks. i hope this post was able to make you smile today!

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we need to do stuff more as a system lol

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In honor of the treblesand I think we should expand into the music scene for more plural symbols. I vote we first go for the violin

"Does he... you know..." *lowers voice* "Play double stop on the violin?"

(double stop is a technique where you play two strings at the same time on a string instrument. I think it could work as a funny little parallel to having 2+ selves in the same body lol)