#DID system

[r0ttingsystem]

Being a system is so weird like my mummy and daddy didn't like me so now I'm sans the skeleton

[petaliiss]

Common things in DID that no one likes to talk about

- switches that feel like you’re turning into someone else rather than them taking control (non-possessive switching)

- being unable to recognize amnesia until something requires you to remember something you forgot

- staying in the front for weeks at a time

- being unable to communicate with alters internally (this is so common why does everyone act like this is weird?)

- feeling like you don’t have any problems because you feel disconnected from them

- constant denial

- rapid identity, label, and appearance changes

- comorbidities, particularly personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and the schizophrenia spectrum

- autism (there is science pointing towards autistic people being more susceptible to trauma)

- disliking your system

- wanting final fusion

[plural-positive]

a system is mid-switch. their friend asks if they're okay, to which they reply, "give me just a moment and i'll be Frank with you."

[boyswillbedogz]

trauma so bad my coping mechanisms have names and pronouns

[decayflux-protocol]

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT-

[fleshfictive]

NOT supportive to your system friends:

- "can you make [alter] front?"

- always asking who's fronting

- getting upset when they can't remember something

VERY supportive to your system friends:

- giving them money

- "here's $50 for you"

- relinquishing your money to them

- offering them money

[harrvesting]

When the dissociative identity disorder starts dissociating my identity

[squidfreak]

DON'T PUT YOUR TRIGGERS AND/OR PHOBIAS IN YOUR WEBSITES/PINNED POSTS/BIOS/ETC. FOR EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET TO SEE. ONLY TRUSTED PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT INFORMATION, NOT THE WHOLE INTERNET. YOU WILL GET HURT!!! MEAN PEOPLE WILL USE IT AGAINST YOU!!!

[themadwomen]

As a DID system that always related to the Doctor, we're so happy it was because it serves as subtle representation in that way.

Feeling so incredibly validated that my head canon of the past Doctors still “living” in the current Doctor’s subconscious, being catty bitches who bicker 24/7 and are probably backseat driving, has been canonized @atalanta133

[aurangg]

Something really not talked about with trauma disorders is the paranoia.

Being scared and jumping to conclusions when people stand a little too close to you, not believing people’s compliments and thinking they have hidden motives, not believing when people tell you they like/love you, thinking that strangers you see on the street want to hurt you, etc.

[caintooth]

seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

[therivalsys]

We should really emphasize the fact that alters can be ANYONE and believe in ANYTHING because we have an alter refusing to show themselves but everytime someone fronts after they did, our entire feed is filled with looksmaxxing posts antivax posts and posts advocating for the consumption of raw meat and milk. WHO ARE YOU.

[problematic-alter-culture-is]

Problematic alter culture is getting a strike when you introduce yourself in a system discord because your source is on the black list

Source blacklists make me violent

[syscultureis]

plural culture like "I'm handling that situation really well I think" NO YOU AREN'T the split is coming

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[themadwomen]

One thing we often find is helpful in understanding the differences and similarities between alters and how they can sometimes be different while fronting is the trope of "The Mind is a Plaything of the Body," meaning how your brain is chemically influences how you act and think. Here's the TV Tropes page for it if you're curious. Fair warning, though, if you click on the link it is TV Tropes, so you might get stuck there for a while.

“You can’t be a system!! You and ___ both do this!!!”

We still share a brain.

“You and ____ LOVEEE this!!”

We still share a brain.

“You and ____ talk very similarly!!!”

We still share a brain.