#Multiplicity

[the-fictive-haven]

It's okay to be wrong about how your day will go.

It's okay if you overestimate your energy and realize you can't actually do all the things you wanted to do. Or any of them.

It's okay if you use up all your spoons in the morning and spend the rest of the day in bed because you just can't with life today.

It fucking sucks, but sometimes these kinds of days just happen and we need to roll with them. Directing your frustration into trying to be more productive or getting irritated with yourself (or your headmates, if applicable) won't help, it will hurt you.

Lay in bed. Cry. Idly pass the time. Only get up to eat or use the bathroom. There is no shame in it if this is all you can manage. You're just trying to survive today, you don't have to do it well.

[ancientpersacom]

If the future isn’t plural, real people suffer more than they already have.

[guardianssystem]

Hello systems, plurals, and multiples of all kinds!

We're looking for some interesting resources, information, and links to add to our document!

This doesn't have to be just scientific studies/research on endogenic and non-traumagenic systems!

We're looking for anything system-related of any kind that you find interesting. An article, some history, a blog post, a book, a study, an FAQ. Traumagenic, endogenic, willogenic, Tulpamancy, spiritual, psychological. Functional/healthy multiplicity, dissociation, disordered and non-disordered plurality, trauma, other disorders, alter/system types.

Dictionaries are great! Guides are great too! Explanations, videos, plural media recommendations (books/movies/shows/games), apps, a list of links that somebody else had made, anything.

If you think you have something to share, but it might be a bit too off-topic, share it anyway! Maybe there's a place for it somewhere :)

The document will still be focused on endogenic research and some information for the most part. But you never know what might help :)

Feel free to share around!

[bubblegum-bros-sys]

Some types of switching for us

[thecreepycrawlersss]

being plural means a headmate pulling you into headspace to cuddle with you and help you go to sleep because of your& insomnia

being plural means smiling and laughing at a joke one of your headmates made, or having witty banter with them as you make a meal that you'll both be able to enjoy

being plural means a headmate going "its okay, you don't have to do this, i can do it" and you thanking them because yeah, you cant do that, and thats okay

being plural means thinking about your headmates when buying new clothes, or seeing a shirt or pair of pants for sale and going "they'd love that !!"

being plural means making one of your headmate's simplyplural profile, and spending lots of time perfecting it so that it fits them to a T

being plural means knowing you aren't alone

being plural means knowing that your headmates, your friends, your family, are always there for you

being plural means love.

THIS POST IS INCLUSIVE OF SYSTEMS OF ALL ORIGINS !!! DO NOT BRING SYSCOURSE ONTO THIS POST.

[frameacloud]

(Image description in alt text.) This is a comic that I found in a decades old issue of a magazine about multiples and DID systems, Many Voices: Words of Hope for People Recovering from Trauma and Dissociation, Vol XI, No.4, August 1999, ISSN 1042-2277. Illustrations and comics in this magazine are usually credited only by an artist's signature, which may be unclear or absent. This one doesn't have an artist credit, so Noah might be the signature, a name that doesn't appear elsewhere in the issue.

[genderqueerdykes]

btw 'syscourse' and plural infighting isn't accomplishing anything. back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the only communities and resources for plurals that were widely available were for and by non-traumagenic systems. the only people who were advocating for normalizing and accepting plurality on a large scale were non-traumagenic systems. if you did research into plurality 10 - 15 years ago, most of the results that came up would have been experiences written by spiritual and natural plurals.

many people at the time were expressing their dislike of forcing every single plural to identify as if they had trauma- many found this insulting to themselves, and rightfully so! no one should be forced to identify in a way they don't agree with just to rightfully be a part of a community they already occupy. this obsession with "you can only be plural if you have trauma" has only come about extremely recently. i found out about plurality through the otherkin community. i was actually told about DID by someone in the spiritual plurality community. people don't seem to understand that most non-traumagenic systems have respect for traumagenic systems and don't gatekeep their spaces to prevent us from entering.

older plural spaces on the web like healthymultiplicity accepted all plurals. the goal of the community was to show that you can live as plural and not have it be a tragedy or something to "fix". if anything, folks with dissociative disorders owe a LOT to non-traumagenic systems for pushing to normalize plurality without implying that we HAVE to integrate our headmates and try to stop being plural. a huge part of the early online plural community was there to push that plurals can and do live happy lives and shouldn't view their plurality as a bad thing

it's not going to make singlet society see us in a better light. it's not going to get people to understand plurality better. it's not going to get us better mental health resources. it's not going to improve the quality of care for dissociative and traumagenic systems. all you're doing is bullying someone else that you don't understand simply because you don't agree with them.

you're not going to recover from your trauma or understand your own plurality better by denying the existence of other types of plurality. you're not "making the community safer" by gatekeeping. telling other people how their brains work is policing their identities. whether or not you want to accept it, if you forcefully kick endos out of plural spaces, you are the cop you claim to hate.

fighting with people on your own team will never net you a victory. to every other dissociative and traumagenic system: endos are on your side. you are wearing the same jersey. you are made of the same flesh and blood. enough. come together to share your similarities instead of fighting over differences. celebrate the diversity that plurality offers. don't take someone else's identity personally. someone can share the space with you without having to match exactly how you identify. diversity is what makes a community thrive.

[skullrift]

is your system a council or a twitch chat

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[emhoover]

This is my fan translation of Kairi Seidouitusei Shougai no Chiguhagu na Hibi by Tokin! I love this manga so much. It’s a wonderful autobiography about DID and a representation with a tone we don’t usually get in English. Tokin-sensei gave me permission to translate the prologue and share it with an English audience because I know so many people would want to read it! I am not going to translate the entire text, but I do really really want to encourage people to submit it in this month’s Seven Seas interest survey!! Please help support Tokin-sensei’s wonderful work!

(Submitting with the Japanese title I wrote above or a link to this post would be best for clarity, my English title is not a literal translation)

[thetransfemininereview]

My new essay about the interconnections between transmisogyny and pluralphobia is live right now! It's titled "Transfemininity and Dissociative Identity Disorder: An Undertheorized Intersection," and you can read it here ✨

[the-fictive-haven]

New self portrait (plus her wisp buddy) from one of our headmates! She spent a long time on this and it came out looking pretty awesome!

Alter in a system. This is not an OC. Do not use as faceclaim or anything of the sort, edit, etc. Reblogs/reposts with credit are welcome!

[twiigthetwiink]

my online class is asking me to create an "alter ego" for an assignment. little do they know that

[bubblegum-bros-sys]

Some of us just come pre-labeled idk man lol

[lunarmoron]

twitter users aren't ready for my interpretation of this tweet

[wispforever]

happy pride, everybody. ask me about my queer system. endo safe!

[Edit: now has image description]