#OSDID

[thefluxsystem]

You know what the worst part of having a dissociative disorder is, for me personally?

The emotional amnesia.

Your entire life feels like something that you watched on TV, rather than something that you actually lived through.

You know that some of the most horrific things imaginable have happened to you, and you feel nothing about it. Sure, the memories disgust you on principle, but you don’t feel anything.

It makes you question if anything that you remember is real. If that actually happened, shouldn’t it feel significant? Shouldn’t you be sad, angry, hurt, something?

And to top it all off, nobody understands. Not even yourself.

[necroticcadaver]

Do not claim to be a mental health advocate or a safe space for the mentally ill if you demonise systems, cluster B personality disorders and/or psychotic disorders.

[ancientpersacom]

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

[the-whistle-system]

If you know anyone with DID or OSDID, No you don’t!!

Keep that information private! These next four years are not going to be kind to people with mental illnesses

[13conk9s]

sigh. this is so sad. alexa play pk;m new

[redefine-ur-plurality]

I don't think it should be necessary for me to state how much I fucking despise r/systemscringe and similar communities and forums. What do they even think is so good about what they're doing? They actively hunt down traumatised minors on the internet, post their screenshots and publicly shame them until they are too scared to be active anymore. They fakeclaim anyone and everyone who doesn't precisely conform to their exact definition of what a plural should be - which is ironic since the majority of them are not plural. Everything they say seems to contradict itself, it's hard to tell what they think a system can be/have. I wouldn't be surprised if they decided systems weren't real altogether.

It's like

High alter count? fake

Low alter count? fake

Positive, healthy relationship with alters? fake

Negative, unhealthy relationship with alters? fake

Traumagenic? faking trauma to harm traumatized victims

Endogenic? faking a disorder, even though they never claimed to have it

Tulpagenic? cultural appropriation.

Enjoys problematic media? oh god they can't have interests!!! They *must* be faking

Stereotypically cringe/2020core? fake.

Basic person(people) functioning in life and working a job? fake.

Struggling to function properly? fake.

Stuck living with abusers/still being abused? fake.

Easily triggered? fake.

Hardly ever triggered? fake.

Vivid memories of trauma? fake.

No memories of trauma? fake.

Mixed origin? fake.

Undiagnosed DID/OSDD? fake.

Diagnosed DID/OSDD? fake.

Minor? fake. (which is odd, considering DID is known to form in early childhood)

Adult? fake.

Had more than one account of trauma/abused by more than one person? fake.

Ritually abused? fake.

Abused sexually/verbally/emotionally, neglected, gaslit or manipulated (any form of abuse besides or alongside physical)? fake

They are hypocrites.

[delphientropy]

"the future is plural" "the future is singlet" the future is prioritizing healing. i hope the future is prioritizing healing, no matter what that healing looks like.

[stormyaxolotl]

Can u please do sys pfp and banners of shadow milk cookie? And if its not too much trouble, some of pure vanilla cookie as well?

yeah, here you go :3

art credits: south-w [3x] coffit0 ridleymb pppuri apolifric shhr1mmp zhivchikov

[ennieasys]

im doing the notes thing

I doubt it'll work but I have also witnessed the power of Tumblr so...

100 notes: I'll paint my nails the trans flag colors

200: I'll buy a nonbinary pride moth bracelet (skyebluez.com)

250: I'll also buy a classic pride bracelet (I know it's not a lot but it's kinda all I can afford)

500: I'll find a way to go out in public wearing all three

900: I'll talk to a friend that I suspect is a system about our DID

1000: I've been wanting to stream on twitch but am insanely anxious about it so if we hit this I'll do it at least once

1500: I'll have y'all recommend stuff and I'll make a poll

[bagaluten-sys]

Thinking alters/different personality states were just mood swings is honestly so funny to me, like "yeah, my mood swings have different political believes and hobbys, but whatever"

[ginganthropy]

okay so no one likes " the future is plural " right

buttt i think a slogan would be good to bring awareness of did/osdd!!

so what about:

" Not Your Horror Trope "

it attacks the stereotype that all systems are " dangerous " or " violent " aswell as the fact that our illness has been used for shock value in various films

it also doesnt specifically say " plural " or " system " in it, since ik some systems are uncomfortable with those terms ( we HATE being called plural )

lmk what you think!!

[manicpixieyandere]

The Genius Of Not Labeling Jinx

The Messiness Of Labels

Jinx from Arcane is known as the poster girl for borderline personality disorder, but today we wanted to talk about some of the other conditions she has symptoms of (but doesn't necessarily qualify for) and why it was smart to not label her.

Let's go over the different conditions Jinx could have:

Of course first we have BPD. Not gonna spend too much time on this one but she hits all nine of the diagnostic criteria!

Schizophrenia:

Jinx is seen to hallucinate many times in the show. She gets visual hallucinations of her family she has guilt over killing. She experiences overlays of child like drawings. She has auditory hallucinations and delusions as well.

BPD can come with hallucinations and delusions but it tends to more often be auditory hallucinations and delusions of grandeur than anything else. Schizophrenia and bipolar are the conditions more likely to cause the type of psychosis Jinx experiences.

DID/OSDD:

An argument could also be made for Jinx nearing a dissociative disorder. We haven't seen much of the show from the season two trailers, but they do seem to be hinting at Jinx embracing Powder a bit more.

It is common in BPD for the person to believe they are a completely different person than their past self. We think this is well represented in characters like Spinel from Steven Universe or Ashley Graves (Leyley) from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. This is of course also shown in Jinx with Powder.

But Jinx and Powder's differences go a bit beyond the typical BPD self image issues. Their personalities while similar, are quite different. And instead of Powder staying purely in the past, Jinx switches between the two personalities. You can see her face change to be more soft like Powder in certain scenes. (They quite literally transform her face).

Some other differences are; Jinx is represented by pink, while Powder tends to be blue. Jinx is left handed while Powder is right handed (she uses her left to shoot, right for other stuff). Jinx is the daughter of Silco, Powder is the daughter of Vander. Both are the child of Zaun.

Jinx is of course also known to dissociate in many scenes. (As a side detail we just love how well animated the face acting is).

While Jinx fits BPD best it is also important to note that comorbidity is a real thing. While rare, all three of these conditions can be had at the same time. Personality disorders and dissociative disorders especially tend to be comorbid.

The most likely reason Jinx isn't diagnosed with anything is stigma. Giving a terrorist a mental illness may come off a demonizing. But Jinx is still loved by the neurodivergent community because her symptoms and trauma are treated with care. She's a fun relatable character. But we think another genius reason is because she's all encompassing. Saying she has BPD may make anyone who doesn't have BPD immediately think "oh, well then I won't find her relatable". But in an age where fandom likes relatability and kins the most, you cannot afford that. Instead really any neurodivergent can see themselves in her.

This is both a smart strategy but also just an accurate portrayal of how real life ends up looking. Medical conditions are technically social constructs. That's not to say they aren't real, but that they are labeled by humans. It's a list of behaviors the body or brain executes. But humans are messy! Who's to say one person is gonna nearly fit into that BPD box? Eventually you get to a point where you have someone diagnosed with 10 or so mental conditions! (Hi yes it's us, we have been diagnosed with 10). Humans were not made to fit into boxes. You see this pattern with queer identities all the time as well. The creation of microlabels has greatly helped people categorize and understand themselves, but at the end of the day the most accurate label is: you. You are you. Insert name here is Insert name here.

Thanks for listening to the ramblings of a mad Jinx kinnie. Here's to hoping season two is just as good as the first one! Still absolutely loving Jinx's new look!

[the-whistle-system]

I hate the weird spiritual argument endos use to validate their existence

Endos talk about their plurality with such vagueness. It’s always about how there’s other forms of plurality that we don’t know of yet and it’s all so spiritual or whatever the fuck

Meanwhile people with DID, OSDID, CDD (etc) talk about the cause of their disorders with actual medical proof followed with rants about how it’s ruining their lives

It’s almost like it’s a disorder that ruins you life

It goes like this…

“So why do you have multiple people living inside your brain?”

DID systems: We have an identity disorder that effects our perception of reality because we were constantly traumatized as children

Endos: idk life is a mystery :)

[seedling-system-userboxes]

This alter is…..roles part 2

Like/reblog if save or use

- Ken/Aj

(Let us know if there are any userboxes you want specifically or any we have missed out)

[total-eclipse-of-the-brain]

joining the war on pro vs anti endos on the side of anti endos. here is a screenshot of the DSM 5's dissociative identity disorder development and course section, aka how the disorder fucking forms. if you want you can look it up yourself! It's page 294.

also (page 291)

do you want to know why it says "In DSM-5, the dissociative disorders are placed next to, but are not part of, the trauma- and stressor-related disorders," instead of it being one? BECAUSE WE CANT FUCKING TEST TO SEE IF ITS SOULY A TRAUMA DISORDER BECAUSE IT'S UNETHICAL!! We know it's heavenly related to trauma but don't know the exact details because children's brains are so difficult. there could be a slight genetic chance that you become more likely to develop it but we do know you need to go through enough stressors that your brain uses dissociation to cope with to cause the block in the brain from your anp and ep's to not fully come together.

YOU CAN NOT BE PLURAL WITHOUT GOING THROUGH REPETITIVE TRAUMA IN YOUR CRUCIAL DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD

[postapocalypticposse]

I was trying to post smth ab being a system. But in all honesty, I couldn't word it correctly.

Sometimes being a system is the bane of our existence. We're constantly frustrated by the lack of memory, the lack of functionality and the high amount of stigma and hate systems and us ourselves receive for the stupidest claims.

We are not here for your entertainment

Our fictives aren't here to act as yr comfort characters

Our factives aren't your celebrity crushes or our actual abusers.

Our littles aren't always innocent kids who need babying

Systems aren't a circus, we aren't here to entertain your density and ignorance.

We're not faking for having high numbers

We're not faking for having low numbers

We're not faking for having non obvious switches

We're not faking for alters not being able to mask very well

We're not faking it alters can mask as the host

We're not faking if a recent split is from a new media

We're not faking if there's consistently one alter in front

We're not faking if there's different alters in front all the time.

Pf-systems aren't faking for their high numbers and complex structures

They're not faking for having subsystems and side systems

None of us are faking if our sexualities/gender vary.

We're not faking if we have in sys relationships

We're not faking if we have out sys relationships

We can pretend to function if it keeps us able to study/to work/to simply exist in society

We're not faking if we're >18

We're not faking if we're over 18

Systems don't fake being disabled along side this disorder. Many chronic illnesses can be a consequence of long term abuse like joint issues and chronic migraines.

Systems aren't faking if they're self dx BC they can't afford it/not safe to go down that path/aren't being believed/haven't got professionals in their area/are poc

Poc can be systems.

Queer ppl can be systems

Non poc can be systems

Ppl can go their whole life w.o knowing they're a system

Ppl can know they're a system from a young age.

Systems can have overlapping disorders like cluster disorders, other trauma disorders, other neurodivergance, learning disabilities etc.

Systems DONT owe you anything.