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i recently made a new term resource

its https://askstentor.com its kind of like the website version of the askStentor discord bot

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some plural terms to describe my system

schemagenic - subset of tramagenic, a system that exists because of a maladaptive schema or multiple. modegenic - a system or system member whos originate from originally being a schema mode continuation - a switch where an alter/headmate switches by continuing the thought process of the member fronting before.  continuum - a system that experiences switches via continuation most of the time

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first post in awhile, ill be more active here soon

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here are some facts about disassociation (DP/DR in specific)

  1. the average age of developing dissociative symptoms is 16. source: page 303 of the DSM-V 2. disassociation is not rare at all. depersonalization is the third most common symptom. source : https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-psychiatric-treatment/article/understanding-and-treating-depersonalisation-disorder/6216AE06994D1094873145C016CC1F57 3. approximately 2% of the population suffers from depersonalization derealization disorder, the disorder is not rare. source page 303 of the DSM-V. 4. 1 near death experience is enough to trigger the development of the disorder. source : https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-psychiatric-treatment/article/understanding-and-treating-depersonalisation-disorder/6216AE06994D1094873145C016CC1F57 5. dpdr is a real disorder and it does exist, should not need a source for this one

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a rant on sysmedicalism.

i have had a blast while working on a project within the plural community. the people within it are nice, very cooperative, very accepting, unlikely to step over any boundaries and are careful not to if you tell them they accidentally did so.  However, one particular group of plurals, the sysmedicalists, have been quite the opposite of our described experience with the plural community. they have been quite rude and go out of their way to make people feel bad. sysmedicalists often go around and terrorizing anyone who doesn't have a lick of trauma. often calling them fake or harmful to the rest of the community in some way. the communities they target often are the endogenic communities and the tulpa hobby communities. the first thing i want to address is their attitude towards the endogenic community. the sysmedicalists often strictly target this community, they often purposely go out of their way to find pretty much the bad outliers of the endogenic community and portray them as the entire endogenic community.  some excuses for this harmful behavior ive heard are the endogenic community is preventing people with actual DID from getting treatment. the problem with this is that most endogenic systems i find distinctly differentiate themselves from those with DID. they even go out of their way to say that their plurality has nothing to do with trauma, even going as far as to exclude those with trauma related plurality from their spaces. up next we have their harassment of the tulpa hobbyists. their primary excuse for harassing the tulpa hobiests typically are they are being culturally appropriative of closed Tibetan religious practices. when they call it a “closed religious practice” it really makes it sound like they are trying to cover up for a cult. as cults often have certain practices that the public is not allowed to know about or don't want them participating in. when they say this, it makes them look like they are defending a cult. even though they are likely not.  this is like saying Mormon blood atonement is a “closed religious practice” when really it was a harmful cultlike practice. it makes a genuinely harmless practice seem like a harmfull one on the outside, and ironically lets people sympathize with the tulpamancers as people who are uncovering a harmful practice and turning it into something good, dispite western tulpamancy being nothing like the Buddhist practice of sprulpa.

and about the whole cultural appropriation thing, the sysmedicalists don't understand the difference between cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation. in cultural diffusion, a concept from one culture gets introduced into another culture, like the sprulpa from Buddhism getting introduced into western culture. then what happens is that idea gets mixed in into the ideas of the culture it is being introduced to. so this  Buddhist sprulpa gets diffused into the concept of the western tulpa, which is not a practice of traditional Buddhism nor an original practice from western culture. it is a new practice that anyone can use or follow.  in cultural appropriation, you take the idea of one culture and wrongly claim it has allways been your culture. this would be like if i said that  sprulpa was a uniquely American concept, and has nothing related to Buddhism whatsoever. i can see where the symedicalists confuse diffusion with appropriation. however, appropriation is not going on, as the tulpa in itself is a diffused concept and not a stolen concept. one could argue that all cultural diffusion is cultural appropriation, as it requires that you initially take a concept form one culture and integrate it into your culture. however, in diffusion, a twist is put on the initial concept, usually involving your own culture, therefore generating an entirely new concept in which is unique to both cultures. and endrant

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well hello!

consider this our first post on this platform! we are the lead developer and project coordinator of the plural dictionary bot known as ask Stentor. the replacement bot for the now defunct blossom bot project with one major difference, we ask you personally for consent to put your term into our dictionary.