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Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be in the tumblr laws. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

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Things I wish people understood about systems

- If one alter knows about a trauma and another alter doesn’t, do not tell them about the trauma. Ever. There’s a reason they don’t remember.

- If you’re close with an alter and they suddenly stop fronting for a while, understand that it’s likely not your fault. Even if they want to front, sometimes they just can’t.

- If you hurt a little in any way at all, expect a protector to come and promptly get angry. They can’t help it, it’s their job.

- LITTLES ARE CHILDREN

- If you wouldn’t do/say something to an actual child don’t do it to a little

- Understand that not all alters will have the same feelings for you

- alters are people not just personalities

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can you like/reblog this if youre a DID/OSDD system?

i really want to follow and meet more ppl!

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can you like/reblog this if youre a DID/OSDD system?

i really want to follow and meet more ppl!

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Hey, did you know you don’t have to be SEVERELY ABUSED to be TRAUMATISED? Did you know that if it’s painful enough you can be traumatised by any of the following:

- carer neglect

- emotional neglect

- abandonment/divorce

- forced isolation

- imprisonment

- bullying (at school, work or home)

- accidental injury

- severe illness

- loss of a loved one

- abuse for only a short period

- levels of stress that you can’t developmentally handle

- hell any number of things that are emotionally difficult

Please, PLEASE stop telling systems that if they weren’t abused they don’t count as traumagenic and have to identify as endogenic/some other label. It’s incredibly harmful because they’re going to deny their trauma even more instead of coping with it.

Also, just bc an alter can form due to internal stress, doesn’t mean your system is not traumagenic. Sometimes an alter just forms to help you cope with existing stressors, not bc you’ve suffered another trauma. Don’t call an alter “endogenic” just bc you didn’t endure external trauma just before they formed. Stop invalidating people’s symptoms and stresses that are caused by their disorders. These people deserve encouragement to get the support they need, not made up pseudoscience from people who don’t understand the nature of emotional trauma.

(oh and if you genuinely think that tulpas or soulbonds are equal to alters or even slightly similar to them, sit in the corner and think abt your ableism bc religious practices and mental disorders are not comparable - we have an alter who legitimately practices necromancy and divination and he is laughing at you)

(do not touch this post if you disagree and do not add anything bc I AM RIGHT)

- Roy

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Always worrying about who's fronting isn't healthy. It's okay to not know who you are.

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romanticizing mental illness is dangerous and misleading

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Systems please reblog or like!

We’re in need of accounts to follow, please 😊

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Important facts about DID

DID is caused by repeated childhood trauma before the child has gained a personal sense of self. Most children gain this sense of self around 6-9 years old. Therefore, DID cannot form after the ages of 6-9.

DID is caused by repeated childhood trauma. Trauma can include physical, mental, emotional, or sexual abuse, invasive medical procedures, repeated natural disasters, severe neglect, and/or war. The trauma must have been repetitive. Without trauma, DID cannot form.

To have DID, amnesia must occur. Amnesia is defined as gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information and/or traumatic events.

If someone does not fit all of the criteria for DID, they’re diagnosed with OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder.) For instance: If someone does not experience amnesia, they do not meet the diagnostic criteria for DID, and will be diagnosed with OSDD.

Fictives (or Fictional Introjects) exist in some systems. Fictives are fictional characters that become alters. They are formed like any other alter, from trauma, either at a young age, or stress happening to someone who ALREADY has DID. They do not develop just from a love of a character, or from wanting that character to be real. They are not the same as imaginary friends, or roleplay characters.

DID is not the same as being kin with someone/something. Being kin with a character means relating to that character. This is not the same as an alter. Some people may believe they are the character that they are kin with, but this is not DID either.

Alters are not roleplay characters. People who roleplay and create characters might feel like their characters have their own personalities, to the point that the character ‘doesn’t listen to them’ about certain things, but this is a fairly normal thing for writers. It is not DID, and they are not alters. EDIT: Roleplay characters, like any other character, can be introjected into the system in some cases, if the person already has DID. (You can still do whatever you’d like with that character, even if it feels like they would disagree. Knowing how they would feel about certain actions, or feeling like they wouldn’t agree or approve of you doing something when writing what they would do is not the same as an alter. Take it from someone who has both alters and roleplay characters: they are not even remotely the same.)

Alters are made inside the person’s mind. Therefore, alters cannot come from outside someone’s mind. Some alters believe that they came from elsewhere, and even have memories of lives before being an alter, but this is part of DID, and is an illusion. (I have an alter who has memories of a life before becoming an alter. I am not belittling any alters who have these memories or beliefs.)

Alters cannot travel between people. No one can send an alter into someone else’s mind, or send one of their alters out of their own minds. (This is in fact a very dangerous idea that can be used by abusers to further hurt or control people with DID.)

Alters cannot die or be erased. They can be sectioned off so much that they are no longer felt, or put in a hibernation state, but they are not gone. Integrating is an option some systems choose to pursue, but even then, the alter is not gone, they’ve just become part of another alter or the system as a whole.

Alters are parts of a single person that has been kept from being able to gain a full sense of self or identity because of trauma as a child. This does not make the alters fake, and does not mean that the host or core (if there is one) can control them. Alters are not the same person, and do not identify as each other or the host or core. This is the entire point of DID, to not identify as each other in order to compartmentalize traumatic events so the person is able to go on living. (It’s completely normal and in fact part of the disorder for alters and the core/host to not see themselves as the same person. For all intents and purposes, they are not the same person.)

DID is a serious mental condition caused by trauma. It is not a fad, or a game.

Everyone experiences the symptoms of DID differently. This does not mean that if someone does not meet the DSM criteria for DID, they have it anyway.

DID is not accurately represented in media. If you see a show, book, movie or game that says it’s about DID, or seems to have aspects of DID, assume that it’s wrong, or take it with a grain of salt. (The exceptions being recent case studies, books from people who have DID, and the like. Sybil and other such media is not an accurate representation.)

DID has been around for a very long time, and has been recorded all the way back to the 1500′s. Just because they didn’t have the same terminology or understanding of it that we do today, doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.

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Endogenic

I don’t “do” discourse really, and never on this blog, but I need to say something

I’m part of an OSDD system. Which means that I have alters. Now, like everything, there’s a community online for it. And it’s INCREDIBLY TOXIC.

Not the DID/OSDD community, but the system community. People calling themselves ‘endogenics’ have invaded our spaces, demanded recognition, and spread lies about systems and our disorders.

Systems ONLY come from childhood trauma. They don’t come from having a lot of kins, they don’t come from trauma later in life, and they CERTAINLY don’t come from someone thinking it’s ‘cool’ and ‘fun’. It comes from childhood PTSD that caused structural dissociation to the point of forming multiple personalities.

If you are an ‘endogenic’ there are two possibilities:

1) You are misinformed or otherwise misguided. You either have DID/OSDD and don’t remember your trauma, or you have a similar disorder and were led to believe it was a system.

2) You are actively harming a community that is already highly stigmatized and is ENTIRELY MADE OF TRAUMA SURVIVORS. You chose to infiltrate the support community for fun, spread lies about us, and belittle our trauma.

It’s not fucking cool. You are hurting people. You’re hurting vulnerable, marginalized people. It’s not ok for white people to invade POC spaces, and it’s not ok for ‘endogenics’ to invade ours. Stay in your own lane.

If you are questioning your symptoms, I beg you to stay far away from the online community. People with schizophrenia, BPD, and other similar disorders are frequently harmed by endogenic rhetoric. Endos mix symptoms and are ready to dismiss professional qualifications for our disorder. You will not find good information here. Don’t look for it.

My inbox is open. This is not a safe blog for endogenics. I am willing to do more informational posts about systems and how they are formed if any of you want to know.

Lastly: if you ever use the word “traumascum” I am legally allowed to stab you through the eyeballs. This is your last warning.

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Alter introduction

Name:Lilith

Age:unknown

Gender:female

Sexuality:lesbian

Role:unknown

Likes:choas, letting her mind go, spiders, reptiles,

Dislikes:children, hyper children, angels

Triggers:unknown

Emoji:😈

Hey. How y’all doing? Guess what? I don’t really care. Ha! -Lilith

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Alter introduction

Name:Lucy aka Lucifer

Age: 21

Gender:female

Sexuality:lesbian

Role:trauma holder and protector

Likes:pastels, girls, Lilith, goth, puppies, kitties, boba tea

Dislikes:meanies, dark colors except for black, loud noises, God, Christianity,

Triggers:Christianity, God, loud noises

Emoji: 🍬

Hi! I am the devil! I bet you thought I would look different, huh? I love talking to people so talk to me! -Lucy

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Alter introduction

Name:Tarantino Hightopp aka the mad hatter

Age: 35

Gender:male

Sexuality:straight

Role: unknown

Likes:making hats, Alices, top hats, dressing up, rabbits, tea

Dislikes:cards, the red queen, the jaberwalkey, talking about family

Triggers:cards, the red queen, being without his hat,the jaberwalkey, talking about family

Emoji:🎩

Hello! Care for a cup of tea? Of course you do! Shhhhh! I hear something! Wait that’s just me! -hatter

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Alter introduction

Name:John Dolittle

Age: 67

Gender:male

Sexuality:straight

Role:protector

Likes:animals, books, kids, music

Dislikes:humans sometimes, talking about his wife, getting close to people

Triggers:talking about his wife, choas

Emoji:🥼

Oh hello. I didn’t see you there. How do you do today. Well, that’s good. Tell me what you need. I take walk, fly, and jump ins. Good day. -Dr.Dolittle