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the-alarm-system Ā· 1 year ago
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Anti Endos and Projection of Decisions and Hurt
I'd like to start this off with my story and how it relates to the experiences of many hurt anti-endos.
I don't remember a big chunk of my original trauma, most of it feels like a dream that has chunks guarded by Red our protector. I do have bits and pieces, and I know for a fact that I went through RAMCOA.
Growing up I got hurt by a lot of women, and one of those woman's personas got introjected into my system and would retraumatize me consistently for a few years. This was before I realized I was plural.
What Im trying to say is I have survived a lot of horrible shit, and I know it's why I'm plural, and I have had horribly abusive headmates before.
Anti Endos bring these forms of exo and internal abuse up whenever attacking the slogan "The future is plural". I saw an anti endo say
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And I got angry enough to make this. Maybe it was rage bait, but I'm convinced most of them genuinely believe this.
Using your own trauma and hurt to invalidate the existence of others is one of the most vile horrible things you can do. Not every traumagenic system is formed from programming, not every system existing is formed from programming. Trust me I know the pain of being hurt that way, but are you serious? Don't use your trauma to hurt others. No endo wants to fucking program a child and abuse them, this is just a false analogy used to bring fear to others and towards the movement. We are not the enemy.
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I have experienced strong negatives, I've felt strong dissociation, memory loss, and Scald has gotten lost before and we do struggle a lot in disordered experiences. But this is expecting that every system puts the negatives above the positives. This is expecting that your experience and perspective of your own system lines up with everyone elses. I don't care that I have so much to deal with, being a system makes me extremely happy and I would love to share that with others. Obvious negatives? Yes, but "few" positives? In my experience with DID, psychosis, and even BPD I do my best to see the lighter side of them because I wouldn't be me without them. I have so many more pros than cons that comes with being a system because I actively changed my perspective in order to accept ourselves. I had to see the joy of it because I was abusing Scald by not accepting him and giving him individuality. I understand a system seeing their DID as more negative than positive, but this is projection to others which is simply narrow minded.
Before going deeper, I want to affirm that I have no hatred towards those who go towards final fusion or uses parts language. This is an argument about those who project their end goals and hurt and suffering onto other systems in order to invalidate them.
While I may not experience this towards my own system, I can understand why others may despise being many and/or desire to end as a singlet. However in the argument against endos; being broken, wanting fusion, using parts language, and hating yourself as a system is bought up multiple times. Here are some examples:
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Their views on their systemhood, while valid, is narrowed to the expectation that every other system should see it that way and if they don't they are put into the pile of fakes and subject to harassment. Anti endos have called me disgusting simply for expressing how happy being a system makes me. It reminds me of when I was a transmedicalist(essay for later) to be honest.
If you don't want to fuse, if you don't see your systems existence as an abomination, and you desire better acceptance from the world
You are a fucked up groomer who is anti recovery, never wants to heal, and wants to abuse children.
I'm sorry I love my system
I'm sorry I found so much joy in my system that I would love for there to be more of us and better acceptance of us
I'm sorry that I'm not all pessimistic on my system
To be honest, I can't change the past I went through, I can't delete my system,
But maybe to me it's ok to see the good that came out of it even if its hard then and hard now
Projecting your perspective of your systemhood onto others though, projecting false analogies based on your own trauma, and expecting every experience to be the same as yours is vile and just self victimizing in order to hurt vulnerable systems looking for community.
Giving your sob story, ranting about how you hate your pieces/headmates, and then tying it up with "and thats why endos want to hurt children" is a different level of fucked up
small personal note: if I had to endure everything again just to be with Scald, I would Over and over and over Piss yourself mad about it antis, I love my system and we aren't faking because of it
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fact-anonymous Ā· 8 months ago
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So I am a Thomas Sanders introject and I don’t know if I count as a fictive or a factive (so I’m sorry if shouldn’t really be using this blog) because Im specifically sourced from the character version of him from his Sanders Sides webseries. And if whoever’s reading this doesn’t know what that is what you need to know is that character Thomas is MUCH closer to real life Thomas then most character versions of YouTubers. I had (he has) almost all of the same friends, same interests, very similar personality, and most likely similar struggles but I don’t know that for sure.
It’s just weird because I relate to a lot of factive posts about having a source that did some bad stuff (real life Thomas is currently being accused of underpaying his employees! great time for me to make my presence known to my headmates…) but I don’t actually remember doing any of that? I don’t know what I’m supposed to be and I keep hearing about social media posts saying the show I’m sourced from is declining in quality or that the influencer I’m maybe sourced from is making weird choices and I just want everything to shut up and I’m just… so tired
At least my sides are here, even when I become a voice in someone else’s head I can’t escape the voices in mine /lh šŸ’—
(Side note I know it’s probably inevitable but the idea of anyone even slightly involved in my sources fandom seeing this post makes me irrationally nervous)
(feel free to ask for removal of response)
Mod Silhouette: For some people, sometimes labels aren't about describing your exact experience, but what experiences you relate to. Being a fictive and factive at the same time, or someone between those two, is not something you alone experience. Like people who are sourced from personas (wrestlers, youtubers, other performers.) Many use the term faitive or fucktive for that, but you don't have to. You can simply choose both labels, just one, or neither. And you're welcome on this blog either way.
Anyway, it's valid not to have the same memories/lives as your counterpart. It doesn't detract from your identity as Thomas Sanders.
It's okay to avoid fandom, especially fandom negativity. You deserve respect despite your counterpart's actions. We hope your headmates respect you, too.
We won't tag your name, so we hope the Sanders Sides fandom won't see this.
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funlovingfuzzball Ā· 1 year ago
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If you ever looked at my following list, this might not shock you, but if you didn’t, it’s time to introduce us. Yes, us.
I’m Raie, she/her. I’m the system’s primary protector and a Temeraire introject. Anyone familiar with the series would know why I couldn’t find this less shocking now that I figured out my source. Yes, I do have phantom wings, tail, horns, and tendrils. I also definitely attempt to call the divine wind when furious and then remember I’m very not able to do that here. Personal policy: all sourcemates are AU versions, you are not *my* Iskierka and especially not *my* Lawrence. My Lawrence is long gone and my Iskierka is source-exclusive. 200+, female, and you pronounce it ā€œRayā€. I bite, but only if you make me.
We also have two others who are defined enough to be named and explained here. The rest are still fuzzy and haven’t claimed names. We all accept she/her, and are figuring out individual pronouns still.
Lily - she’s the sole known little and fluctuates between 6-12 years old. Very much a trauma holder, look up ā€œcatkidā€ if you want clarity. Rarely fronts. If she wants to clarify more, she will later. Pronouns unstated.
Arya Nightjar - this one’s my fault. Many apologies to Arya, who was directly my creation. She was a D&D oc who I was using as a masking persona in theory, and when I discovered we were a system she finally made herself known. I had actively formed an alter based on the oc and had been dragging her into front when I didn’t know what to do. First thought: ā€œwhoopsā€. Second thought: ā€œoh good god I’m sorry that sounds like hellā€. Owlin druid, misses flying. Weird sense of humor. She’ll also clarify more later if she sees fit. Individual pronouns unstated.
If you want to classify us as an evil multi-origin system or some shit based on Arya, I probably don’t want you following me. She was technically made on purpose, but I had no clue what I was doing, so please just treat her as an oc-introject. Also, please don’t force us into syscourse. I am pro-belief (all else being equal, if someone says they’re a system they’re probably not lying) and we don’t have a public stance on endos. Lastly, be nice, and I’m not letting Lily publicly show up on the blog until you’ve proven you can be normal to me, an introject, and Arya, an intentional creation. If you can’t deal with us, you don’t get access to the little. You got it? Good.
Hope this doesn’t freak anyone out.
-Raie
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secret--star--system Ā· 9 months ago
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hello, welcome to our blog! i'm Midas, and I usually front. we only recently recognised ourselves as a system, so i co-created this blog with VM-15 to try and get to know everyone else / keep track of our experiences. this post was written by a few of us, so apologies to anyone else reading this as our grammar referring to one another may flick between subjective (he) and personal (I) regularly and without warning.
We're a quoigenic mesosian system, and currently have 7 or so frequent headmates/alters. Here's our pronouns.page!
so far, the following headmates have introduced themselves:
🧭Midas (he/they, 18) : I'm the main host, along with 15. The body is technically mine, and I am usually in control of it, even when the others front mentally. I'm gonna just say 'front' rather than 'co-front' from now on cause it's quicker.
šŸ‘¾ VM-15 [he/it, ageless] : I'm the robot that we frequently use as a persona for the whole system, rather than Midas, and I'm always co-con when he fronts. When another, secondary alter is also co-con/fronting, I'm usually there. I'm the one who realised we're a system, but we all agree that Midas has been here the longest. I have my own blog, too ( @humanity-lost ) which is where I post from, rather than here.
🚬 Guy /ɔi/ (he/him, 26) : relatively new and generally turns up when we feel neglected, at social events, or when whoever's fronting needs help recovering from / preventing a breakdown. he's also our suicide helpline, and helps us calm down when it gets really bad, as well as fronting with VM-15 when Midas is overwhelmed.
šŸ‡«šŸ‡· --- (he/him, adult) : all we really know about him is that he speaks fluent french (we all speak french, but he's, like. fluent fluent.) and gets really pissed at the people who sit behind us in languages class. he hardly ever fronts, and when he has fronted it's been only for a few minutes.
🪩 Starboy (he/him, mid-20s) : The musically talented one, passionate about robot / A.I. rights. Like Midas but without the social anxiety, and i'm generally more 'in the moment' than he is. I wanted a blue shooting star emoji, but it doesn't exist :[
šŸ“€ GM08 & šŸ’æ TB3 (he/him, ageless) : Fictive soulbound alters who function as a coping mechanism for a very specific traumatic event. They usually appear as their Human After All or RAM era forms*. Thomas listens to jazz when stressed or dissociating.
✨ M14 & 🌿 T14 (Matthieu and Timothée) : Littles belonging to the au versions of TB and GM. They rarely show up.
🌈 GM08 & 🩶 TB3 (he/him, ageless) : au versions of GM and TB, parents of M14 and T14. occasionally hang out with the other daftverse robots and 15, though never front.
Headmate types / relationships:
🧭 Midas : Core, host
šŸ‘¾ VM-15 : Host, gatekeeper, soulbound alter (former self-insert)
🚬 Guy : Protector, introject
šŸ‡«šŸ‡· : Fragment
🪩 Starboy : Developed fragment
šŸ“€ GM08 & šŸ’æ TB3** : Comfortgenic soulbound alters (universe of origin is difficult to explain), TB3 is the system's trauma holder.
✨ M14 & 🌿 T14 : Littles, walk-ins
🌈 GM08 & 🩶 TB3 : walk-ins, comfortgenic
15 or I'll add the others as they turn up, or they'll add themselves. :]
( note to selves: all.txt just means it was a few of us, not actually literally everyone - Midas )
*versions of them from aus or different eras occasionally pop in ; so far the most of their kind we've had at any one time is 6 ( haa era tb+gm, discovery-era tb+gm and their two children. )
** we totally vibe with doubles of these two! We know some people get uncomfortable around doubles of their kintype but we are totally ballin' ( if you're a daftverse robot please can we be friends aaa I love meeting more of you guys - 15 )
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lovetogether Ā· 2 years ago
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Alter introductions! Everyone be nice,
šŸ’› Symphony is our ā€œcatch allā€ name or ā€œsystem nameā€, our preferred collective pronouns are none, and he/her if needed.
Here’s a list of all our current active alters,
We do not currently have any designated ā€œHostā€ and instead opt to refer to all of ourself as a collective.
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ā˜•ļø Dale or Coop or Dell, (he/him) is and introject of Dale Cooper from the show Twin Peaks. Very close to source, likes talking.
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šŸ€ Lucky or Wiki(pedia), (he/her or no pronouns) is an introject who is disconnected from source and comes around on the blog frequently. Lucky is very close with our alters Octave and Song! The three often co-front together.
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šŸŒ™ Octave, (they/she) is an introject partially connected to source. She is friendly though sometimes shy, rarely introduces themselves directly but is pretty active on here.
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🧣Crow Alibi (he/she) is an introject of the character Goro Akechi from Persona Five. Was host / main alter for about a year, currently taking a back seat. Still he is quite active on here, just doesn’t use the term host. Usually in charge,
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🌱 Song (he/they/she) is our younger sibling of sorts, they co-front a lot, they’re usually in the passenger seat! She is often age regressed so please keep this in mind. Everyone else is protective of them and our biggest hope for this account is everyone here accepts and is nice to Song. Song is friends with lots of fictional characters, sometimes we tag content of these characters as #friends if you wanna know who they are. Song requested we list her top friends:
Mike from breaking bad and better call saul
Kim from better call saul
Jack-o from guilty gear
Birthday our popplio
Sampo from honkai star rail
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🌻 Story (no pronouns, he/him if needed) is Song’s biological brother. Story is based around our oc of the same name. Story is another common alter here though never introduces himself openly, next to Crow.
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ā“ Melope (She/they) is a child alter of ours, she’s rarely on here but is usually with us! (She’s more active irl, Song wanted us to include her)
Notes: we are always finding out more about ourself! there’s probably more than we listed here, they just do not have an identity yet. We also did not list currently dormant alters! We trust everyone here will be kind to all of us and any and all introject weirdness we see is an instant block. Everyone loves to talk if asked so feel free to say anything to anyone and when they come around they’ll get to you! Similarly; we love talking about having DID! So questions are always welcome, though please remember this disorder is heavily personal and no experience is the one true ā€œright oneā€. We have heavy communication with our alters and frequently ruminate and meditate. We all take accountability for each other however do also want to be respected when we say we are all different people. We trust everyone here currently following us will be kind to all of us ! Thank you :-)
Final note: all pmd sprites are from this site, check it out!
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starseers Ā· 3 years ago
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hi! so basically I was wondering do u have any tips on can someone know for sure if they have alters or if it is singlet fluid identity or personas/ocs/etc? what does singlet fluid identity look like compared to a system switching through alters? when u only know two possible alters how can one know more when no communication method has worked? and is it normal for one alter to stay at the front for a long time and just not think about whose fronting and such and still be a system? how did u figure it out if u are okay with sharing..
Okay well that's a lot to go through, gonna tap the "I'm not a professional, just a dude" sign again though, were also dyslexic and just generally bad at processing things so sorry if we read something wrong
First of all, I've never heard the term "singlet fluid", so I can't give input on that. I'm gonna guess you're questioning if your a system though. It's a... Weird experience.
I did ask our partner system (@sleepysystem-vibes ) for some input though, and here's their response;
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For how we found out- This is a bit of a hand me down story cause I'm a new(er) alter, so excuse lack of details, but an old host had been looking into intrusive thoughts a lot and found an article comparing intrusive thoughts and DID. It was a shit article looking back on it but it got us on the right track.
We looked into it a bit more and basically, it filled all the holes any other things we've researched couldn't fill. Not hallucinations, not intrusive thoughts, and not mood swings.
The best advice I can really give you is just go with your gut. Most systems I've talked to all say it just felt right, either that or they were suddenly diagnosed.
You can ask yourself simple questions though:
Do I have gaps in my childhood?
Do I deal with often dissociation/derealization/depersonalization?
Do I ever feel like I'm watching my life from a TV screen/ not in control of my body?
Those are just some I can come up with off the top of my head, but they can be helpful.
For OCs vs. alters- oh boy don't worry, we went through that too. It's even worse when your ocs are also alters. Introjection can make things confusing lol
We actually started our whole discovery process because of OCs. There's a barrier between daydream and sentience (that's likely the wrong word but I can't think of anything better rn). We realized these "OCs" we're still being "daydreamed" even when we stopped and we gain traits and characteristics of them, which is partially natural, we all pick up traits of characters we like. However, there were periods when these traits would come and go, later learning that's certain alters moving close and away from front.
I honestly can't be much help in that department though, it just took a lot of time and communication for us. If they want to be know, they'll tell you. The best thing that helped us was the phrase we still use during low days; "You wouldn't have to question this if there wasn't a reason to question it."
Something is there that makes you turn your head, and that's what you should focus on.
For switching- switching is... Complicated. There's different types of switch, different experiences, different experiences depending on the alter- etc. I'd recommend looking up "possessive switching" and "non-possessive switching" to help you figure out if you are switching though.
For how one alter can know more than another- dissociative barriers. Simple as that. The disorder is made to protect you from intense childhood trauma, it's just part of the shebang. Don't know what that means? Google is a luxury we don't realize! Look it up.
For alters staying in front- that is extremely common. It's usually called being front-stuck. It's a miracle I'm even fronting right now considering our host is painfully front stuck a lot. It's natural, and it'll pass. Same for not knowing who's fronting. If you mean as in not caring to ask who's fronting, that's normal too. We've flat out forgot we're a system multiple times before! Life just gets busy and frankly? It's not healthy to fixate on your system 24/7 like most would suggest.
Now, best tip of all? Don't depend on social media. Google research papers, they're there for a reason and easy to access. Hell, I don't know your situation but if you're at all able, go to a therapist- specifically a trauma specialist because anything else will likely waste your time. There's a lot of misinformation online, especially about dissociative identity disorder, be careful who you listen to and check the credibility of what you read. Don't even take my word for it, you have no idea who I am, I'm not even an adult! We got lost in a shit ton of misinfo at the beginning and I'd hate to see you fall in it too, with that being said though, I wish they best of luck to you!
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aikainkauna Ā· 8 years ago
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I think we are living now in a period which in some ways resembles the time of the plague. It sounds like a very exaggerated image, but we are confronted every day with despair and horror. There is the nightmare of the war and the fear of the bomb, but you know as well as I all the events that cause our universal anxiety. So the feeling I wanted to give you tonight is that during these events, during these happenings, it is as important for us to step out of history as it is for us to live within it. We have to step out of it in order to find the strength with which to participate in it, with which to live in it, and with which to achieve what I was finally able to achieve in the later diaries, which is a refusal to despair. This has meant creativity on the one hand and relationship on the other—the obsession with establishing intimate contact, with friendship, with every form of relationship to man, woman, child, to people close to us and to people in other countries. It’s not only the artist who talks about creativity. We can begin to create in a desert of life, we can begin to create with those that we live with, we can begin to create as children do—-immediately writing poems or painting when they can hardly hold a brush or a pen. This creativity is a constant interaction between our life and the struggle with larger issues such as history, whose victim we can become. And in order not to be victimized by it we also have to learn to live apart from it. It’s not escape, it’s having a place that we return to in order to regain our strength, in order to regain our values, in order not to be shattered by events. It’s almost like the man who goes to the bottom of the ocean and takes with him some oxygen to equalize the pressure. I’m talking about equalizing the pressure between outer actions and events which are shattering and devastating to us and then the place where we recompose and reconstruct ourselves, where we finally achieve what Jung called the second birth. The second birth we are entirely responsible for; it’s a self-creation. This second birth is the one that you can make, and the discovery of that to me was always a great relief. As long as we expect the changes to come only from the outside or from action outside or from political systems, then we are bound to feel helpless, to feel sometimes that reality is bigger and stronger than we are. But if suddenly we begin to feel that there is one person *we* can change, simultaneously we change many people around us. And as a writer I suddenly discovered the enormous radius of influence that one person can have. So when we make this interior change we do affect the external world. Now everybody separated that and said: there is either rushing virtuously to live a collective life or else there is this selfish introspection and concern with your own development. But the two are completely interdependent, they are completely interactive; and the more you have this response to life, the more you have a source to respond with, then of course the more enrichment you pass around you. Why we made a dichotomy between those two–saying that the two wouldn’t enrich each other—I don’t know. Because whatever the individual does for himself and by himself is something that ultimately flows back again like a river into the collective unconscious. So if we are disappointed today in the external changes it’s because not enough of us have worked at raising a better quality of human being: one who is more aware, more able to evaluate, judge others, judge the characters of our leaders[…] We have to work upon ourselves because, as Loren Eisley said, every time we come to terms with hostility within ourselves we are creating the possibility of someday not having war. In other words, I’m putting back into the self the responsibility for the collective life. If each one of us took very seriously the fact that every little act, every little word we utter, every injury we do to another human being is really what is projected into larger issues; if we could once begin to think of it that way, then each one of us, like a small cell, would do the work of creating a human self, a kind of self who wouldn’t have ghettos, a kind of self that wouldn’t go to war. Then we could begin to have the cell which would influence an enormous amount of cells around you. I don’t think we can measure the radius of the personal influence of one person, within the home, outside of the home, in the neighborhood, and finally in national affairs. We never connected those two; we always thought we had to approach the larger issues directly; we never thought we could transform the larger issues by transforming ourselves. If first of all every individual had taught himself lucidity about character, the knowledge of psychological disturbances in depth, and had learned to go inside of himself, he could learn to perceive the workings of others, he would be able to choose better leaders. He would be able to do whatever it is that he does in his profession far better if he had this added lucidity, this clairvoyance that the recognition of other people’s subtlety and complexity gives. We talk about media and we talk about new sensitive tapes and we think about all kinds of ways of recording, but we never think of our bodies and our mind and our hearts as receptors. And that can only happen when we develop a sensitivity, when we get rid of the defenses which I call the calluses of the soul. R. D. Laing has a beautiful long paragraph explaining that while we all have a hope of authentic encounters and relationships taking place, they will not take place until we unmask ourselves, until we get rid of the persona, until we get rid of the defenses, the projections and introjections. He mentions all the interferences; and the diary revealed to me, when I finally opened it up to you, what those interferences were. They were mostly fear, fear of other human beings—which I suddenly lost the moment that I published the diaries. So the gamble proved to me that if we gamble in depth, if we offer the deep and the genuine part of ourselves, then it’s not destructible. We cannot be destroyed. Alvin Toffler also says in Future Shock that the students who are turning toward astrology, toward mysticism, toward the East, toward anything of the spirit, are dropping out of technology. I say: ā€œNo, they are trying to find a source of strength and a center so that technology doesn’t enslave us, so that we are the captains of our own lives.ā€ So I don’t agree with him at all. The turning toward other things is really an attempt to create a self which can then survive in the air in which we live.
AnaĆÆs Nin in A Woman Speaks: The lectures, seminars, and interviews of AnaĆÆs Nin (available for free on Open Library here: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7909910M/A_Woman_Speaks )
#anais nin#writing#personal growth#empowerment#creativity#YES YES YES#i just adore how she completely and utterly GETS IT#that withdrawing into hermitude and creating something beautiful is absolutely essential#for one's mental health#and that doesn't at all mean that you're a coward or that you aren't interacting#how are thousands of hits on a fanfic not interacting and not making change in the world?#yet that'd still be considered frivolity#anais is wonderful in that she gets at the interaction and balance between this nesting thing#and making change in the world#i've not really seen any other writer ever explore that the same way#either it's loud screaming sjw stuff that tells you you're evil if you're not out there demonstrating right now#and that you might as well be a victim and all this guilt-tripping about how 'passive' you are#if you just need to close out the world to get your shit together and do something that's of worth to yourself#it's so incredibly important and i'm so glad she is bridging the two#plus yeah if people just paused to think about each others' psychological makeups#the world would become a bit too easy to navigate#instead of just this stupid kneejerk reaction at someone saying this or doing that#why not ask yourself why they're doing this or that#there's so little pausing and considering and analysing#and NO. panicking and imagining the worst is not the same thing as it's just fear and not realistic#but anyway ANAIS#i've got a pdf of this if anyone wants it#contact me if you want a copy that's un-DRMed
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79911091-blog Ā· 8 years ago
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y u gotta be so mean?
troll trɒl,trÉ™ŹŠl/nounĀ "Someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.ā€
It’s a word that majority of people familiar with the internet know of, and many of which have had to deal with themselves. Unlike the traditional meaning of troll, the only thing that is ugly about these people is their words. But the bigger question here is why? Why would a person who in general may portray a normal, sociable, likeable persona contract such a harsh alter-ego online? Great question, you should google it. Or keep reading, it’s up to you.
Psychologist John Suller says this phenomenon is due to, what he calls, the online disinhibition effect. Disinhibition is ā€œthe phenomenon wherein one abandons social inhibitions that would normally be present in face-to-face interactions.ā€ To break this down, according to Suller there is six factors which contribute to the effect: Dissociative Anonymity and Invisibility, Asynchronicity, Solipsistic Introjection, Dissociative Imagination and Minimising Authority. Confusing? Yep. So let me break them down for you.
Number 1/2: Dissociative Anonymity and Invisibility. Ā This is perhaps the most obvious reason of them all, people feel as though they can be a whole other person due to the anonymity that the internet gives you. However most of the time this is an illusion that people often fall subject too, as it doesn't take long for others to open that veil and find a real person hidden underneath.
Number 3: Asynchronicity. As they say (note: they is unknown) DON’T FEED THE TROLLS. Most of trolling is done to create a reaction, a simple tweet or comment is placed in order to infuriate others. Often trolls have little care in the matter themselves, however find a kick in getting reactions out of others online.
Number 4: Solipsistic Introjection. Journalist and researcher, David Auerbach labels the introverts who feed off online anonymity the ā€œA-Cultureā€. These are the people who came before elite online fame, and found solace in the pseudonyms Ā that most Social Media sites used to hold. Now, they fight back to protect what they once through the method of trolling.
Number 5: Dissociative Imagination. Often when confronted, trollers state they mean no actual damage, pure harmless ā€˜fun’. Because of the lack of face-to-face confrontation, trolls rarely ever see or feel the human consequences of their actions, leaving them to continue on with their day to day lives without any repercussions.
Number 6: Minimising Authority. Trolls believe that, unlike in the real world, there is no hierarchies. This allows them to freely speak and spread ideas without anyone questioning, what or who they are. A great example of this is when celebrities are trolled. In the real world, they would rarely ever have the opportunity to even meet these people, yet online they are able to hold a significant gravity on these people’s wellbeing and lives.
So let’s go back to back to the beginning, why do trolls exist? Well, they thrive off the opportunity and anonymity the online community gives them. However, more importantly is the reason why the succeed. They succeed because we let them, when it comes to trolling, it takes two to tango.
References: Auerbach, David. ā€œAnonymity as Culture: Treatise.ā€ Issue #15 – Triple Canopy. Triple Canopy, 09 Feb. 2012. Web. Suler, John, Ph.D. ā€œThe Online Disinhibition Effect.ā€ CyberPsychology & Behaviour 7.3 (2004): 321-26. Psychology of Cyberspace. Rider University. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. Academic Earth. The Psychology Of The Internet Troll. Academic Earth, 2017. video.
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