#misinformation in ramcoa spaces

[starlitvases]

I don't know what it is, but every time I correct misinformation or provide evidence that a particular thing is possible, the response 90% of the time is, "they maybe meant [obscure statement here] instead." Then say that. Either say what you mean or take responsibility for being wrong and not understanding something. If you can't be responsible, then maybe you shouldn't be advertising the "resources" you created.

[ben-marco]

I am very tired of seeing radqueer / transRAMCOA / transDID shit in the RAMCOA tags. It is frustrating and disappointing to see survivors being spoken over and their spaces being encroached on by people who never went through the horrors of RAMCOA and can only attempt to imitate it and make a mockery of it.

Just as misinformation on social media has real clinical implications for DID and OSDD in general, the misinformation about RAMCOA (and all of this "transRAMCOA" and related shit) will only make it more difficult for real survivors of organized and extreme abuse to come forward, be believed, and be treated.

The Satanic Panic had devastating effects on the credibility of survivors. Now it is happening all over again on social media.

[august-zip]

RAMCOA is a controversial acronym. It stands for Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, Organized Abuse. These things do exist. But the acronym does not. Ramcoa is sometimes used in conjunction with conspiracy theories like SRA. For that reason some use OEA, which stands for "Organized extreme abuse"

Essentially its the abuse tactics used by some of the worst people to exist. Spaces like cults and trafficking rings. People wrongly call DID caused by this "highly complex DID" or HC-DID. something that does not exist and you will not be diagnosed with. And they refer to this process of abuse as "programing". This can happen without forming DID.

The biggest thing is seeing people spread this around online freely and they manage to convince each other they've gone through this or being influenced by quite often misleading content. We are well aware that some who claim to have this were truly subjected to such horrible things like brainwashing and sex trafficking. But the ramcoa community is full of discourse and misinformation.

[sophieinwonderland]

Why are people still lying about system hopping???

I've already covered this pretty in-depth in the past. If you want to see the full post with links and sources, please visit this page:

Here are the bullet points:

"System travel" has been in use to describe moving between bodies since at least as far back as 2001.

"System hopping" has been recorded as an alternative to this since at least as far back as 2005.

Another system has reported it being in wide use at least around 2007.

The earliest use of system hopping as a RAMCOA term was a Twitter post from April of 2021. There is no evidence of system hopping being used before that point to refer to moving between side systems.

Anti-endos pounced and started using this Tweet as evidence that system hopping is a stolen RAMCOA term.

The creator of that Tweet later deleted it and confirmed that nobody else in the RAMCOA community called that system hopping.

System hopping didn't become a RAMCOA term until a full 16 years after its oldest recorded use in the general plural community.

This is settled history!

STOP SPREADING THIS LIE!

(Also, since anti-endos keep spreading hate and misinformation in inclusive spaces, and this post is directly about DID, this is going into both DID and anti-endo tags. Especially the tags they spread this misinformation in.)

[ratinacoat]

Not like DID is a legitimate diagnosis nowadays, but you do realize that "don't worsen your dissociation, you're still one person" post will cause unfathomable amounts of coping? The only reason people roleplay DID is because they can have their little aesthetic character sheets and play them real time while tweaking each little information about them to, you know, give them the """vibe""". People make stimboards for this shit. They force themselve to dissociate because they are bored and low confidence, the DIDdlers have been running away from themselves for years now.

I mean you could've fooled everyone if you kept it subtle, but now it's just ridiculous, nobody sane wants to take this shit seriously. See anything related to this valid heckin' disorderino, the amount of useless terms, of coping, of "guyyys but do you really think I'm realll I mean I have the paaaper", of constant reminders like "hey we cannot compare trauma, washing dishes is just as valid as the PTSD soldiers get", I won't even mention the animals amd "innerspace" and TikToks, there's just no helping it anymore

YOU ALL ARE A BUNCH OF PUSSIES, START DOING SOMETHING TANGIBLE, GIVE UP THE LARP

DID is a legitimate diagnosis, it is very much a real thing. I do agree a lot of people fake DID but of course not everyone is, and not everyone who isn't is in a space that encourages healthy coping mechanisms. In system spaces when I was younger people faking threw me into a denial spiral until I started repressing everything, which just made things 10× worse. I still have a hard time talking about it knowing people I haven't told about my disorder while hiding everything are following me, but I'm getting out of that.

I post info on the disorder because I have a decent following built from it, and there's not a lot out there. That dissociation post was made after someone asked because they wanted to understand it better, like most of my information posts. Whether it be how actual introjection works, why RAMCOA is a bad term, or why certain things are unhealthy, I like providing information and people enjoy it. Many people do want to take DID seriously, including myself. Seeing people spread misinformation and others fall into that sucks. It feels lonely seeing no one take it seriously.

This does draw in a lot of hate or "coping", as you put it, but I don't care. It just makes me wanna post more information so ignorant people aren't the ones taking over that aspect of system communities. I'd rather talk about how DID works than feed into misinformation just to make the people who spread it happy. I post what I like and I like what I post. Believe me, the hate and "coping" I get doing this information is no where near as bad as explaining things to/debating with flat earthers and creationists lol. I think I'll live.

[system-community-corner]

tw ramcoa

question for you or anyone in the reblogs:

if torturing or abusing someone with the intent of creating a system is considered ramcoa,

would an alter doing the same to another alter in the same system with the intent of creating a subsystem be considered ramcoa as well?

this is unfortunately happening in our system and we're trying to stop it, but we fear the damage has already been done...

-@anonblog

I believe there is a lot of misinformation in this question, and I'm going to be gentle with this.

In theory, yes, torturing and abusing someone with the intent of creating a system is a form of ramcoa. ramcoa is an abbreviation for ritual abuse, mind control, and organized abuse. they are all separate things. you are specifically talking about mind control. in theory, yes, this is a form of mind control and intimidation done from notably a very young age from an outside force. it is organized, calculated, and usually (but not always) multigenerational within the organized group, cult, or otherwise.

which is why I have to say, no, you can not claim ramcoa. because it's not from an outside source, and it's notably not done before the age of ten, which is when the cut-off for DID is.

but listen to me.

what you're experiencing is real, and your brain is processing it in the way of being tortured or abused to form this subsystem because it is a way of internally processing it for some reason. work backwards. some persecutors do things because they think that it's helping the system in some way.

you are being conditioned and pressured internally, possibly, sure, but that is not the same as torture for mind control, and it would be offensive and distasteful to consider it as such.

do not refer to your experiences as ramcoa.

^ the above text was written by a friend of ours who has gone through ramcoa. We, as in the blog owner/runner, do not have the knowledge nor experience to further help.

Ramcoa, as an acronym of abuse, is heavily misunderstood and mysticized. and I am not a professional. don't ask me questions on this shit and expect professional responses.

Ramcoa/oea is a touchy subject with a shit-ton of misinformation online and in some therapy spaces. If you or others seriously believe you're a victim of it. Do not doink around online. Go straight to a professional who is knowledgeable in the subject.

It can be extremely dangerous to fuck around and find out on your own. It can cause you loads and loads of harm if uncovered improperly or before you're ready.

I am just a tumblr blog runner. I cannot stress this enough. I, like most tumblr blogs (if not all), are not trained professionals.

[starlitvases]

Unfortunately you do have to make a post explaining what introjection is and why its bad if you don’t support it /nm /gen

Hello, let's a get a few things straight.

1) I never claimed that introjection is bad, and I never said I don't support it. The initial post this anon is referring to involves me stating that holding onto the belief that you are a literal fictional character is anti-recovery rhetoric. Either the anon misunderstood my post, or they're twisting my words, the second of which I don't appreciate.

2) I am a nursing student and am currently employed at a disability office. I know what recovery should ideally look like and what it doesn't look like. Aside from that, people more qualified than me have studied this element of psychology, and there are plenty of resources out there explaining what I'm talking about.

But since you and the original post author asked, and since I'm running on 26 hours of no sleep and don't care to wait for the morning to make this post, you'll get my explanation now. Apologies in advance if my tone sounds rude or aggressive. I don't mean to be, and again, lack of sleep may affect my tone. I'll maybe edit this after I sleep to sound nicer. Who knows.

Let's get started.

Introjection, as defined by the APA (American Psychological Association), is "a process in which an individual unconsciously incorporates aspects of external reality into the self, particularly the attitudes, values, and qualities of another person or a part of another person's personality."

Introjection is something every single human on this planet will do, even outside of dissociation. Cultural values are a good example. If you primarily grow up in a Latin American household, you may introject traditional family values, the same values your parents may display. The same goes for any culture and their own values. This occurs with fictional characters as well. Ever watch a TV show and you suddenly start using your favorite character's vocabulary? That's also introjection.

In dissociative patients, particularly those with a complex dissociative disorder, introjection is commonly found with abuser introjects. These introjects often take the form of persecutors. Here's a screen grab from The Haunted Self:

"Without the ability to mentalize perpetrators, to create symbolic representations, children may "take in," introject, the "bad" object of the perpetrators. Thus, as EPs they claim they are the abuser, and not the abused, and have the affects and behaviors of a perpetrator to varying degrees."

These introjects serve as coping mechanisms, as do all alters within a dissociative system. With these particular alters, the brain creates them to build a barrier between it and the abuse. An internal thought process may be, "if I commit violence against myself, then I'm not really being hurt because I'm doing it by choice." Various thought processes similar to the one I just outlined are used as justification for the internal abuse. Children direct blame towards themselves rather than the perpetrators because they're often told the fault of the abuse belongs to them by their abusers or even by others. To protect the child, persecutory abuser introjects may form to direct the abuse inwards as a way to make sure they're "actually at fault." Introjects are largely used to cover up an internal struggle or trauma within the self.

Fictional introjects are no exception. The thought process for introjecting a fictional character may be, "if I am [character], then the abuse never *actually* happened to *me.*" The brain may see a character that has gone through something similar to the body and grab onto said character as a defense mechanism for denial. This has been documented, however my hazy memory and 26 hours of no sleep is not a good way to hunt down the sources for this. This segment may be edited when I get some sleep.

Taking all of this into consideration, stating and believing that you are literally a fictional character feeds into the denial loop the traumatized brain has created. Denial is never a good ingredient for recovery. Recovery begins by facing what has happened to you and healing from it. Hiding behind denial prevents this process from happening. It prevents integration (the lowering of dissociative barriers), communication, and teamwork from occurring within the system, all of which are needed for healing. Hiding behind what is essentially a lie created by your brain does not help you, nor does it help your alters beside you.

I do understand that not everyone is ready to face the denial and challenege it, and thus saying/believing that you are literally a fictional character is what is keeping you alive at the moment, but the line has to be drawn when you start encouraging others to feed into the denial loop as well. Healing is done on one's own time, and spreading anti-recovery rhetoric removes that autonomy from others. I could visually see that spread in the reblogs.

That spread is the problem I had with the initial post. I never had a problem with the post being about introjection itself. My problem is that it is encouraging others to stunt their recovery when they may otherwise be ready.

Seeing posts similar to that initial post tends to prevent the process of looking inwards and figuring out what is needed in the individual. It encourages the process of looking outwards and only applying what is deemed "acceptable" within the community to oneself. I know that I personally only began to see myself and what I needed when I moved away from the community and stopped seeing anti-recovery posts. I'm sure I'm not alone in that regard.

@certified-silly-guy Here's that post! I don't have the energy to do back and forth reblog replies, so please DM if you have any questions.

[system-hottakes]

oooo new anti Endo syscourse blog hiya!!! :33

here's two takes for ya:

the comfort, safety and healing of people with a debilitating trauma caused disorder (DID/OSDD) is more important than the inclusion of people who claim to have something exclusive to them (systems/alters) but want to be us

endos harm newly discovered systems by making them think that they actually don't have trauma if they don't remember it and just have quirky special guy experiences instead of an actual disability

hello!! it's so hard to find anti-endo blogs on here lol- i agree with both these takes tbh, i think endos are really harmful to the community, both due to them spreading misinformation and also due to how they over take a lot of the "resources" we have. by resources i mostly mean our communities and apps (simply plural is a good example of this, its pro-endo which is so frustrating but its one of the only good system app we could find). as its hard to find system spaces that don't include endos and even harder to find places that are both safe and anti-endo (as some anti endo spaces can be very iffy too, much like pro-endo spaces). and the rampant misinformation that is usually spread by endos is disgusting. especially when targeted towards newly discovered systems or just any vulnerable system that could genuinely fall for their tricks and lies to us endos are weirdos, they claim to not have a disability yet still use the terms that are related to that disability (alters, headmates, systems, ect) and they also try force themselves into our communities?? its a lot like those people on tiktok who call themselves "delulu" (spelling might be wrong) or something despite not having delusions. it makes no sense and honestly feels very ableist not to mention the amount of terms (especially ramcoa terms) they've taken over (like system hopping and system resets, which were both originally ramcoa terms that they stole) (sorry if this doesn't make much sense / is repeated a lot, its like 4am right now lol)

[ben-marco]

do you happen to have any resources about deliberately created system structures in TBMC DID?

If you are referring to innerworld landmarks/structures, I believe there are references to these in some of the RAMCOA books on my Google Drive. However, much of the dialogue around these sorts of landmarks has been twisted by people like Svali and Springmeier, so sometimes it's difficult to extricate the satanic panic misinformation from the actual experiences of survivors.

One thing I've noticed in online DID/RAMCOA spaces is that a lot of people will compare their inner worlds, programs, etc. to those of others. I don't think this is particularly useful, and I believe it can even be harmful at times. It's more productive to focus on your own programs/structures and try to think about why these were implemented and how they would have been useful to your abusers.

[sysmedsaresexist]

I sent this ask to a different blog but I don't think they're going to post it... I'm so sad, I'm screaming into the void. I'm scared. I'm sending to you because you're where I learned so much of this

Did i say anything wrong? I put so much work into this ask, I grabbed a screenshot partway through, so this isn't EXACTLY the same ask, but it's very close, I had to rewrite some.

from one DID system to another, please, hear me out, I'm desperate to be heard

Literally NO endos claim to have DID

There's like two, and they still say it's caused by trauma but they were systems first and later trauma made their system unstable

If endos want to demedicalize CDDs, why would they claim to have it? It's a roundabout way to achieve the same goal, it's just extra steps

Endos are literally fighting to get away from CDD spaces, do you actually see endos in the DID tag? The cdd tag? NO

They're in the plural tag, a word they choose to separate from the more clinically associated "multiple" of MPD, they're in the syscourse tags because they're allowed to participate, syspunk is less than a month old and it should be a meme at this point because they already had anti endo as a tag

They are literally saying they are systems that are UNRELATED to CDDs, not that they want to demedicalize being a system System doesn't belong to DID, look at IFS, psychological anthropology, or multiple theory of self, jungian archetypes, or does that mean we should be angry about "computer system" because it dehumanizes us?

And stolen terms? We know who came up with system hopping, it has never been used in RAMCOA. Do any of you actually know where tulpa came from? Like the actual word? Do you know who Alexandra David Neel is? The white woman who invented an imaginary practice that didn't actually exist (What she wrote about is not the same as Buddhist emanation), and created the word tulpa based on another white guy's mistranslation to entertain more white people during the Vietnam War?

So they have new words, they're trying to create more new words, there's so much real, actual research by real doctors into this phenomenon of nonpathological multiplicity in ways that exist outside of clinical psychopathology

The only overlapping word is "system

Plurals tend to get really upset when you use words like alter for them, they don't want to be medicalized at all, they understand what DID is and say, "| don't fit that description", and they're allowed to say that

If I, a DID system, feel I'm healed and integrated and choose to drop the DID label, no one can stop me, and we can't stop people from not picking it up to start with

Why can't anyone have actual conversations about this stuff, I'm so anxious because it seems like people are purposefully trying to misunderstand and lying about how bad the problem is

"Existing" isn't enough to qualify as misinformation, and it seems the only incorrect and unverifiable facts are coming out of the anti endo community.

I'm just so scared and sad.

I just want to know it's going to be okay

First -- I'm glad we can post this for you. I highly recommend screenshotting asks you send to people! It's helped me a lot with my paranoia in the past (did I send that on anon? Did I send that at all??) and it's a good record of your words for later.

Second.

I agree with you, I really do. This is so frustrating, and the self-described anti-endos who have recently flooded system spaces on tumblr are completely unwilling to look at the facts. They're obstinate and stubborn as mules, and unfortunately, that is not going to change. Most of them, if not all of them, are either children or caught in a current cycle of abuse with no way out. Most if not all are currently fighting for survival. They are not in a place to accept others; they can barely accept themselves.

People are purposefully ignoring information. People are purposefully avoiding it.

And it is not, and never has been, your job to fix their issues.

These are people who have always been unwilling to listen. They are children who cannot, for their own reasons, listen at the moment. For whatever reason, they are not in a position to accept endogenic plurality exists, and the more they are pushed, the more they will spit up their vitriol on the puke towel that is syscourse (or, worse, "syspunk").

It is sad. It can be scary. But it's not on your shoulders to fix them.

At the end of the day, you have to ask: what is most beneficial for me in this moment? Next, what is most beneficial for my family in this moment? Then, what is most beneficial for my followers in this moment? Then, and only then, are you getting to "beneficial for the tag to see," if you get there at all. The ask you sent them is lovely, and needed, but they are not ready to see this sort of thing, I can guarantee it.

That's why I'm glad it's here: so others can see it.

The last point I'll make is... Please make sure that you are valuing the correct things in your life, anyone reading this. If syscourse is stressing you out, please make sure to take appropriate breaks and check your brain. Remember that this is largely an online issue; the real world is quickly progressing to be more plural accepting and more accepting in general, and there are far bigger issues than an idiot crosstagging misinformation in a niche online discourse. I'm not trying to say this isn't an issue, and it should absolutely be spoken out about, but make sure to take care of yourself while you do. Anti-endos and pro-endos who are idiots online are not the end all be all of system activism. In fact, they rarely fit that definition.

Please do not let these places completely wreck you emotionally. You deserve so much better than that.

Sending love to all our followers; good luck staying afloat out there. <3

[divinefleshandwires]

tw: itbc related ramblings, mentions of child abuse and torture

I figured I'd talk about the process of uncovering all of the horrific abuse we've been through. Sorry about the length.

We were "stable" once. We thought we had 20 alters at most. It was that way for many years. There were incidents where we said strange things or suddenly carried strange beliefs, but it was fine so long as we ignored it. The trauma we could remember was newer than our system. None of us knew why we actually developed the condition, much less so early. None of us could remember anything between 4-8, other than small glimpses of us acting like a dog and struggling to build up the courage to actually speak. We ignored these signs too. Then we were practically rescued by our friends. They got us out of our egg donor's house. We were finally safe after 2 decades. New alters began fronting, introducing themselves. We couldn't find them in the inner world. We began coming to and finding "new" alters logged in our sp. Every single time for a while it would be 3-5 more. These new faces were recording alters they knew of that we didn't. They were describing a headspace completely opposite to ours. And more of these others were describing a different space than theirs. We came to the conclusion these were layers. We began remembering things. Crying out for our mother. Being taken into a small room in a church. Being taken there at night. They always put veggietales on this really old tv they had in one of the rooms. "Demons" in masks entering our various bedrooms. Too many bedrooms. Bedrooms for houses we never lived in. Then the nightmares began. Every single night. Nightmares of the "demons" we saw waking us up in the middle of the night to rape us while we couldn't move a muscle. IV's pumping something extremely painful into us. Electricity making our limbs spasm and cramp. Drowning in ice cold water. Strings cutting into our wrists and ankles. Pins being pushed into our hands. Acting like a happy dog while giving bjs to men in black robes. Hide and seek games but the seekers have knives. We hold a knife in one of them. We stand over another child begging us not to hurt them. We start sobbing. "Please, I don't want to do this!" We scream. The kid disappears. The knife is now covered in blood. We recall having this dream before, when we were extremely young. A lot of these nightmares were like that. Nightmares we remembered having in our youth after we began having them again. We reverted to the sleeping patterns we used to have. Sleep a little in the morning, a little in the evening. We would be up all night, feeling a horrible sense of dread. Awaiting people that never come. We became riddled with fear and paranoia. We thought we were going crazy or having delusions. But the scars we didn't know the cause of lined up with the nightmares and memories we were being flooded with. We found the term ramcoa, but didn't think we could possibly be a victim of such a horrible thing. Of course, we came across the misinformation first. We thought that because it wasn't some massive government ordeal or a cult living away from society in the woods it didn't fit us. Then we found the term itbc. It fit us perfectly. Growing up I had this thing I'd "regress" into. I'd feel extremely powerful urges to offer myself to strangers and be their "puppy". I coped by sexting with pedos online. We would roleplay forced petplay and other very abusive things I won't get into. The host of the time eventually put his foot down on my activities when one of the strangers asked for our address. I got very suicidal. I felt worthless if I wasn't helping someone get off. I began doing it with friends at the time instead, behind the host's back. I think I might've switched, this is very off topic from what we were talking about. Oh well. I'm just gonna leave it here.

[ratinacoat]

As a Jew I literally cannot be in online support spaces for dissociative disorders anymore because every other post is qanon blood libel RAMCOA nonsense. It’s so depressing. Thank you for calling out misinformation

Yeah of course. I'm sorry you're being personally effected by these things. The ignorance of some people is insane.

[electricbloodflow]

r/DID toxicity

A post of mine on r/DID got removed for "spreading misinformation." The misinformation? Someone asked what polyfragmentation was and I summarized the information on traumaanddissociation.net, meanwhile someone kept yelling at me that I was wrong because you can only be PF if you have their specific presentation with like ten different obscure things they have that are only seen in programming (which our system coincidentally had but I know many PF systems that don't,) which goes against the clinical literature wherein PF systems have been documented from cases without programming or OA and their structure is a bit different AND EQUALLY VALID, plus not everyone with an RAMCOA background splits and responds the same way even if they are PF.

I'm done. I'm not putting up with this "your system has to be exactly like mine or you're faking" mentality. Half the threads on that sub complain about people who have a different presentation than them and how that's faking.

Things that people on r/DID think mean someone is faking:

Having any fictive alters (uhm, Dr. Kluft has some published research that disagrees with you - fictive and factive alters are well documented!)

Blogging about intimate system details or alter lists. Because apparently having system pride and wanting to allow all of your alters to self-express is faking???

Anyone who overshares instead of being secretive about their disorder is faking, as if oversharing AND undersharing aren't both common trauma responses. People with florid presentations of DID are "role playing." Again, DID is secretive in many people, but in some it is not as well hidden, and in even more people - they feel safe at a certain point and start allowing themselves to openly represent themselves in some spaces - which is a part of their healing process. This is faking according to r/DID apparently.

Don't question fusion - anyone who sees their alters as more than just parts of a whole but as their own person or having their own soul is faking. You are not allowed to form your own opinions on your disorder and discuss them and how others see things. You have to have the exact same opinion as the majority of posters on the sub. Personally, I know the common clinical psychology line on it is that we are fragmented parts of one whole, but I question that because of the finding that alters have different default mode networks and can persist after memories have been shared. It's unclear by what neural mechanism they operate on in the first place. It's unclear what a "personality" is even in singlets. Maybe it is the default mode network, and people with DID according to studies do have more than one. I also have been in treatment for almost 10 years and have never had fusions outside of less than distinct parts and fragments integrating so fuck fusion, we (my system) work better as functional multiples anyway. Also my alters don't really make one whole and continuous person if you added them together, they have mutually exclusive or just different preferences and views that have nothing to do with trauma. It doesn't make sense for us to fuse because we see things in such different but valid and insightful ways, and we coexist wonderfully and sharpen our perspective by sharing things one alter might notice but another didn't. Systems that see themselves as parts of one whole are valid. Systems that want to fuse are valid. Systems that question this are just as valid as well.

Users insulting people who step in and speak up for systems who are invalidated by such posts, even if research is provided showing the thing people are fake claiming is a documented phenomenon. And honestly, you don't need research to back up your existence - it is nice to have, and I'm so glad there is research validating things like fictive-heavy systems because people are so nasty to them when all they're doing is trying to express who they are, but clinical research has not yet investigated so many things about DID and never will fully document what it means to be multiple because research is more focused on symptoms and treatment and not on documenting individual perspectives.

It feels like everyone there has an axe to grind and very few people are there to help others and commiserate.

[waddei]

(Same person as the one that asked about the commission) Thank for for answering our ask and sorry about that 😅 again we knew it had nothing to do with you and maybe we shouldn't have sent our ask in the first place but we were worried they were the commissioner. Thank for for confirming they are not. And sorry we didn't realize the one sorta callout post you made was the same person. And thank for for saying you do not support the transid and transramcoa despite not knowing much about either. We wanted to send this ask just to inform a little if curious. Transid stands for "trans-identify" It is an umbrella terms for things like transrace, transabled, transage. They are people that feel they have dysphoria similar to how as transmale or woman might have dysphoria about their body, but the transid has it for something like race, age, or disability. An example would be a white man claiming to have dysphoria and that he is actually a black man and saying he is transblack. Or someone who is able bodied saying they feel like they are meant to have/wish they had Hemiplegia or any other debilitating condition and then use a wheel chair and claim they are transabled. Trans-ramcoa is a type of trans-DID where someone says they feel dysphoria about and wish they were a Dissociative system and chose to identify as one when they are not. Transramcoa is specifically wishing you had gone through extreme and intense childhood torture and cult practices. The transid community is very harmful and is even filled with people who are saying basically they want to transition into an abuser. They unfortunately take up space in many of the DID and other community tags and spread misinformation. As with all things they have their way to justify it for themselves, but it all just comes across as very privileged, entitled, and downright rude and disrespectful. thank you again for your time.

oh I've heard of the transid thing under a different name before, mostly white kpopers calling themselves transkorean on TikTok and shit it's very weird

thank you for the info in the other stuff, and no need to apologize About anything ^^ considering the kinda person were talking about I think the nerves are understandable

[aspd-goose]

Hey I just found your blog today and as someone with did who’s scared of opening up because of the TikTok version of it and the ramcoa conspiracy shit, thanks for speaking out. I’ve been diagnosed for nearly two years and the information has been getting worse and worse. This is not a fun condition to have, and I’m no longer safe to share it even with family I could have trusted four years ago.

If this gets answered publicly and anyone is reading this blog with distaste, I urge you to give it and the correct information about this disorder a chance. It’s a scary world to live in, seeing 13 year old kids believe they were severely tortured, and it’s scarier seeing those communities model the cult formula they’re seemingly so against.

Mental health resources online have been rotted away into aesthetic and identity based spaces. People with did are suffering with daily stressors and how to be a consistent human in their loved one’s lives, and any information we could show our families is either scientific articles that are a bit hard to unpack if you are completely unfamiliar, or carrds made by 12 year olds who got diagnosed by Dr. TikTok.

I don’t know what to do about this and I didn’t mean to turn this into a vent. Basic point- thank you and please keep spreading the narrative that DID and its survivors deserve. Your blog is a light in the dark.

hey anon, thanks so much for the kind words. it means a lot & i'm really glad that i can at least help at little bit. i completely sympathize and relate to your points: the main reason i started this blog is because i am so close to my limit with children & science deniers taking over the resources & aid that exist for these disorders.

in my experience when looking for help with this disorder, DID has been so sensationalized that finding resources that aren't either dense scientific papers or an endo-friendly carrd is nearly impossible, and that's messed up. i remember figuring out years ago that the way i function is both not typical and so extremely similar to DID—i remember looking for symptom management resources and finding endogenic conspiracies instead.

this was in 2021, and it's only gotten worse. the RAMCOA epidemic is genuinely heartbreaking, and i am right there with you watching it. programming a system isn't possible—if not for any other reason, then because most children do not react to trauma with dissociative compartmentalization. you can't guarantee that a child's brain will react in the necessary ways to form DID; it's not possible.

i see you & i'm with you. there's a few other blogs on here that are doing the same stuff that i'm trying to do, and i really hope that we might make you feel a little bit better about the disorder & the future of the community surrounding it. i know i do.

once again: thanks so much for the kind words, and i'm sorry the majority of this community is the way that it is. i see you, i hear you, and you're not alone.

DID survivors have come this far—we can push on through the misinformation.

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The "system hopping is a RAMCOA" argument is a big part of why I just have no respect for the term gatekeepers.

Reiterating again... system hopping's earliest use for travel between external systems was in 2005. Its first use in relation to RAMCOA was in 2021, and the person who said it later made it clear that their words had been taken out of context and that this term had never been used in RAMCOA spaces before.

This isn't a debate with two equal side. Anti-endos took a RAMCOA system's words out of context and lied to smear endogenic systems and police terms made by pro-endos 16 years after the term was coined. There is ZERO merit to this claim, and anyone who says otherwise has been misinformed or are actively maliciously lying.

And if they have been shown the facts and still double down, you can bet it's the latter.