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"look up how systems form" as though there's any real evidence for systems existing at all. You can't know shit about what's going on in my head and you can't know shit about what caused it. Everything the medical community has ever said regarding plurality has at best been estimation and often been outright lies with no evidence and no purpose other than to subjugate and minimize systems.

If the brain is capable of doing something because of trauma then it is capable of doing that thing for other reasons too. Maybe you can't have a specific disorder like ptsd without trauma, but you can still have every single symptom for other reasons. Depression, anxiety, dissociation, hallucination, with the exception of disorders that are purely genetic, all mental problems can be caused by multiple things. You think you're special? You think that just bc you're traumagenic all other systems have to be? As though people don't develop depression from vitamin deficiencies, or start hallucinating from lack of sleep? And also, lots of mental disorders like depression and anxiety, which are typically caused by some sort of trauma, can spontaneously pop up out of nowhere for no reason and just run someone's head. If the human brain is physically capable of containing multiple thinking individuals, then it is capable of doing that, end of story. If the mind can split from trauma then it can split without trauma. There are 8 billion people on this planet and you're going to tell me that you know exactly how all of those brains function? You fucking don't, nobody does. Stop acting like you're superior to others just because you've suffered more, it doesn't make you virtuous it makes you an asshole.

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I Want More Plurality Content On My Dash

so um. if u have a sys (side)blog and wanna be mutuals mayb reblog (or if u can recommend some cool folks lemme know)

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bonus points if you're median / mixed origin / monoconscious

be sure to read our pinned post before following!

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Avatar AU where Aang wakes up like 3 days before Sozin's Comet returns and he has to speedrun the entire series.

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Bestie System Pride Flag When you are besties with your awesome system friend The eels represent your besties within your guys’ system The pizza is the friendship

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Fuck your zodiac sign what style do you imagine in

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I'd like to add that humanity has absolutely no understanding of where consciousness comes from or how minds exist. There is no evidence whatsoever that the brain is actually what causes consciousness, though that is what I choose to believe, sometimes.

To claim that the brain can't support multiple minds makes no sense when we have absolutely no idea how brains produce minds in the first place.

Also, while we don't understand exactly how it happens, we know for a fact that every brain does support more than one simple singular mind. It's not a comparable phenomenon to plurality, but the left and right hemispheres of the brain can be considered to have two separate minds, though they play different roles and communicate in a very different and more complex way than headmates do in a system.

We know this because sometimes people get such terrible epilepsy that they have to have their hemispheres disconnected, and when some scientists studied the patients of these procedures, they found that the two hemispheres of the brain continued to function perfectly well without the connection, and furthermore that they could think independently of one another, though only one of them has control over most speech for some reason. But the other side can still answer questions by pointing and signing and stuff.

If the brain is capable of doing something because of trauma then it is capable of doing that thing for other reasons too. Maybe you can't have a specific disorder like ptsd without trauma, but you can still have every single symptom for other reasons. Depression, anxiety, dissociation, hallucination, with the exception of disorders that are purely genetic, all mental problems can be caused by multiple things. You think you're special? You think that just bc you're traumagenic all other systems have to be? As though people don't develop depression from vitamin deficiencies, or start hallucinating from lack of sleep? And also, lots of mental disorders like depression and anxiety, which are typically caused by some sort of trauma, can spontaneously pop up out of nowhere for no reason and just run someone's head. If the human brain is physically capable of containing multiple thinking individuals, then it is capable of doing that, end of story. If the mind can split from trauma then it can split without trauma. There are 8 billion people on this planet and you're going to tell me that you know exactly how all of those brains function? You fucking don't, nobody does. Stop acting like you're superior to others just because you've suffered more, it doesn't make you virtuous it makes you an asshole.

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Every individual symptom of ptsd can be caused by other things unrelated to trauma. Ptsd is a label we put on a cluster of symptoms when there is trauma involved, but some people get misdiagnosed with ptsd without experiencing any trauma just bc they have all the symptoms. The only reason ptsd must come from trauma is because we defined it that way. Anything the brain can do is a thing the brain can do, end of story.

Also you're talking as though there's any evidence whatsoever for plurality, but there isn't. There is no data, there have been no experiments or comprehensive studies. The man who defined did as it is currently defined didn't believe that plurality exists at all, he thinks that even those who fit his super specific and unresearched definition are faking it.

Read some Wittgenstein, think about the box and how it's impossible to perceive what's in anyone else's.

If the brain is capable of doing something because of trauma then it is capable of doing that thing for other reasons too. Maybe you can't have a specific disorder like ptsd without trauma, but you can still have every single symptom for other reasons. Depression, anxiety, dissociation, hallucination, with the exception of disorders that are purely genetic, all mental problems can be caused by multiple things. You think you're special? You think that just bc you're traumagenic all other systems have to be? As though people don't develop depression from vitamin deficiencies, or start hallucinating from lack of sleep? And also, lots of mental disorders like depression and anxiety, which are typically caused by some sort of trauma, can spontaneously pop up out of nowhere for no reason and just run someone's head. If the human brain is physically capable of containing multiple thinking individuals, then it is capable of doing that, end of story. If the mind can split from trauma then it can split without trauma. There are 8 billion people on this planet and you're going to tell me that you know exactly how all of those brains function? You fucking don't, nobody does. Stop acting like you're superior to others just because you've suffered more, it doesn't make you virtuous it makes you an asshole.

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Word of the day: Doesn't matter how your system was created, or what you call yourselves, or even what role each member has. You are all real, you are all valid, and you are all amazing.

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I hate how fucking complicated discord is. I just want to talk to people why do I have to jump through ten million hoops and program a rocket ship's piloting system just to join a server?

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So it turns out we haven't been taking our mood stabilizers and we don't know how long it's been bc the old bottle isn't in our medicine box so we've no way to tell, but I think it's been around a week, maybe a bit more, bc that lines up pretty well with when we stopped being able to feel motivated or do anything but sleep and cry.

To anyone else who is plural and takes mood stabilizers, do they affect the experience of your plurality in any way? We've been melding together for the past week and it's to the point that now I can't feel anyone else here even though I still sometimes hear thoughts from them and do things that they would do. I'm honestly hoping it's the lack of meds making me feel this way, bc it sucks so fuckin bad and we'll be picking up the medication tomorrow.

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We've personally had a lot of trouble with this. We want to be reffered to with plural words and phrases, but like, nonbinary people have worked, and continue to work, really hard to get people to accept that they/them can be singular, we feel a lot of guilt at using the word, like we're co-opting it and taking away from the progress enbies have made. We've spoken to several enbies about this and they all think we're kinda dumb for thinking that way and have reassured us repeatedly that they don't carr, but it's still really hard to stop thinking that way.

"they/them is plural!!"

exactly

also did u know plur/al pronouns exist

YOOOOO FR? Stealin those

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Actually it’s fine to lie about not having trauma. If someone asks if you have trauma and they’re not like a therapist or some shit you can literally just say no.

and also even if they are a psych professional you don’t owe them shit. if you don’t trust or like a psych person you don’t have to tell them shit.

no one is entitled to know your trauma, and it’s ok to say no.

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We used to daydream about being plural. We didn't really know about plurality or did at all, beyond the little tidbits they give you in school, but we still would think all the time about how great it would be to not be alone in our head, and how terrible it always felt to be alone. So yeah, turns out that was a result of us not being supposed to be alone.

i have a question about systems, feel free to delete this! if you want to be plural, does that mean you probably are plural? in the past i've wanted to be trans and a synesthete, and later i found out that i am those things. is that how it works with systems or am i just making it up to feel special?

I mean, it's definitely possible that you're already plural! We also wanted to be plural before we realised we already were.

So yeah, just keep doing research and you might discover that you are a system after all. But also if you aren't and you want to become one, you can also try tulpamancy.

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Okay but why am I fucking sobbing right now that's so much better than any superhero shit I've ever seen.

Idea for a Superman origin movie

built around two solid points: 1) Lois Lane is the lead character; and 2) The audience dose not know who is playing Superman going into the movie.

So the movie centers around a young Lois, who’s desperately trying to get a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet, despite a hiring freeze as the printed journalism business struggles to keep up, and despite the fact she has no prior journalism experience (at least, not outside of an expensive degree that has yet to start paying for itself). Even though no one at the Planet will even return her calls, she barges in in the middle of a work day, trying to get an interview. She bounces off a lot of people (a number of them tall guys with dark hair and nice eyes who she barely notices) until she tracks down Perry White, who tells her, sarcastically, that he’ll hire her on the spot if she can bring him a properly sourced article revealing the story Metropolis’s new hero, who just yesterday stopped a runaway train with his bare hands. 

She gets to work. Her friends tell her she’s crazy. Her sister bails her out of jail at least once (maybe a montage of times). Her father, General Lane, threatens disownment and/or military arrest. This “menace” broke a muggers arm last week, and is wanted for vigilantism. If she really does find out the identity of this man (who’s been gaining notoriety with every feat) and brings it to a newspaper before the military, her father would have to take action. (This country is his family, after all.)

But the more Lois looks into this ‘super man’, the more she likes what she sees. It’s hard without credentials, but she’s been collecting eye-witness reports for months trying to find the pattern to track; the pattern that everyone’s been looking for. She has dozens of interviews with police, and store owners, and caught criminals, but it’s in the interviews of the regular folk that she finds the pattern:

This man is kind. 

Every headline is about a larger-than-life figure who catches falling statues, wins chases with cars, and stops bullets with his pecs. In the words of the innocent people of Metropolis though, is someone else. Someone who flies broken cars to the shop from the highway during rush hour. Someone who takes a sobbing child from the scene of a bike accident and drops off a smiling one with their parents. Someone who’s been spotted leaving flowers by the headstones of the ones who didn’t make it out of that train crash. Someone who sits in a secluded corner of the park and plays chess with the old woman who’s husband can no longer leave the house. Someone who literally pulled a dog out of a river and a cat from a tree. 

So, to find the Man of Steel, Lois searches for kindness - and she finds it everywhere. She finds all the coats freely shed for someone cold. She finds all the grocery carts paid for by the previous customer. She finds lonely veterans offered a seat at the family table in restaurants. She finds hate symbols painted over with cute cartoons and symbols of love. She finds dozens and dozens of volunteers who help clean up and serve food and rebuild after train crashes and car wrecks and robberies. 

She finds Superman.

And then she finds a man in the park.

He’s not doing much, just sitting on a bench with his head in his hands. The copy of the Daily Planet on the bench next to him speculates on the dangers of super humans, as it has every day for the last two weeks. Some have even suggested that the Man of Steel is an alien, though those theories have only barely broken into mainstream. Whatever this man is worrying over, whatever weight is on his shoulders, seems much heavier than a newspaper, though. Lois hasn’t worried herself with the same issue’s as her prospective employer, either. Thoughts still on the group of teens she’s just passed, each promising to beat up on some boy for their friend, are still fresh on her mind, and she takes the spot next to the stranger on the bench.

He’s not a stranger, though. Lois recognizes him. She doesn’t know his name, but she saw him that day at the Daily Planet months ago, and she’s seen him across the police tape at scenes she’s investigated. He wrote today’s front page article: “Man of Steel, or Menace of Steel?”

He’s politely flustered when she sits down, and she promptly tells him that everything about his article - she’s already read it, of course - is absurd. She doesn’t care who “made him write it”, the entire thing is just plain wrong. She finds herself repeating stories she’s read and re-read at all hours of the morning. Stories of regular people who’d told her how they’d been inspired by Superman. How they’d taken leaps of faith toward recovery and new lives thanks to Superman. Teenagers have chosen to live because of Superman. She quotes sources, and sources of people, including herself, who have said that the city of Metropolis - maybe even the world - was so much better because of Superman.

“Superman?” the reporter asks.

“It’s just something I’ve been calling him. He’s got that big S on his chest, right?”

The reporter laughs. He hasn’t smiled the whole time, only looked at her with wide eyes. His smile is… nice. His glasses are dumb though.

“Yeah,” she admits, “it’s a dumb name.”

“No,” he says. A weight has fallen off his shoulders while she was flipping through her notebooks. He sniffles a bit. Lois had just torn into his article with all the fury she could muster, is he crying about it? No, he’s smiling, still. “I really like it. Have you written all this down?”

Lois Lane writes it all down. Her new friend (who proofread the hell out of it because Lois is driven as hell but can’t spell) Clark Kent turned it in to his boss. The newest headline reads:

The Story of Superman -by Lois Lane

She’s getting paid more than Clark in under a year. He just seems to be so distracted all the time. Maybe she should look into that…

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I believe our main point was that the brain is not a machine which functions on easy to understand processes or anything. Disorders dont exist. The brain doesn't get some kind of virus and then suddenly stop working in a very specific way. The brain is literally a fluid chemical soup that hallucinates reality, and it's nothing else. Sure, you can try to understand neuro divergence by putting everything into boxes and labeling it, but that's never going to work because the mind doesn't just get disorders like flipping a switch, it just functions a little different, or a lot different, and we call that a disorder but for the brain it's just what the brain does.

If the brain is capable of doing something because of trauma then it is capable of doing that thing for other reasons too. Maybe you can't have a specific disorder like ptsd without trauma, but you can still have every single symptom for other reasons. Depression, anxiety, dissociation, hallucination, with the exception of disorders that are purely genetic, all mental problems can be caused by multiple things. You think you're special? You think that just bc you're traumagenic all other systems have to be? As though people don't develop depression from vitamin deficiencies, or start hallucinating from lack of sleep? And also, lots of mental disorders like depression and anxiety, which are typically caused by some sort of trauma, can spontaneously pop up out of nowhere for no reason and just run someone's head. If the human brain is physically capable of containing multiple thinking individuals, then it is capable of doing that, end of story. If the mind can split from trauma then it can split without trauma. There are 8 billion people on this planet and you're going to tell me that you know exactly how all of those brains function? You fucking don't, nobody does. Stop acting like you're superior to others just because you've suffered more, it doesn't make you virtuous it makes you an asshole.

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You're literally telling people that their identities and experiences are invalid because they haven't suffered as much as you have. You're worse than scum.

Yesterday we had our first interaction with an endo that we ended up blocking, and it… just feels great. It’s completely fine to block someone who’s trying to discourse with you if they’re calling you things like a “sysmed” or “traumascum.” You aren’t scum and you don’t have to discourse with them. - ??