thecloudycollective

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plural culture is making a picrew because you’re bored but oops now they’re in my head

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I love you systems.

I love you Traumagenic systems

I love you DID systems

I love you C-DID systems

I love you P-DID systems

I love you UDD systems

I love you OSDD-1a systems

I love you OSDD-1b systems

I love you Endogenic systems

I love you Tulpa systems

I love you Willogenic systems

I love you Gateway systems

I love you Parogenic systems

I love you Dreamway systems

I love you Kin systems

I love you Neurogenic systems

I love you Median systems

I love you Polygenic/Multigenic systems

I love you Stressgenic systems

I love you Extraumagenic systems

I love you systems.

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Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

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people with personality disorders: it was difficult to survive on the ground, so i climbed in a tree and now im stuck and can’t get down

mental health workers (and everyone really): it seems that they climbed in trees to manipulate us. they are fully capable of getting down but doing so would make it harder to abuse us, so they stay there

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH TO:

-disabled black ppl

-black ppl with mental illness

-black ppl who don't feel "black enough"

-black ppl who feel "too black"

-ALTERNATIVE, GOTH, PUNK, EMO, SCENE, ETC BLACK PPL

-lgbt+ black ppl!!!!!!!!!!!

-black ppl who aren't deemed conventionally attractive by society

-black ppl in school

-black ppl not in school

-working black ppl

-BLACK PPL 💞💗💞💗💞💗

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System traits that are invalid / fake:

Thanks for reading.

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Candystoreaesic

Candystoreaesic - A xenogender related to the aesthetic of candy stores/ being in a candy store, this gender may feel sweet, energetic and sugary but doesn’t have to! - Made by Candy :)

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- system ask game!

☁️ hihi everyone! my name's cloud and im just vvv bored right now so i decided to make our own system ask game! anyone can reblog this and use this if they would wanna! /gen

🍄 - what is our system name?

🌹 - do we have a system tag or aesthetic? (send ur system tag or aesthetic!)

🥤 - how did we make up / decide on our system name?

🥢 - are we a small system or a big system? (/ how many alters/headmates are in our system?)

☎️ - is anyone/who is near the front right now?

🍁 - who/who are the people/person that usually fronts the most?

📙 - are you heavy with a particular kind of alter/headmate? (introjects, fictive, factives, littles/age regressors, etc.)

🥐 - do you have a headspace? what's the headspace look like? (etc. rather than looks too!)

🍊 - are there any relationships in the system?

🍣 - do we have a partner system(s)?

🏀 - who was the first alter we knew of?

🦐 - who was the most recent alter we know of?

🐣 - what's a fun fact about the system?

✨ - fun fact about yourself? (the person/people fronting/co-conning, etc.!)

🌟 - who's the host(s)/core (if u use that term!)?

👑 - how do you experience switches?

🌙 - dissociative level, 1-10 (10 being the highest)

🍰 - does anyone have an accent in the system?

🌻 - are there any non-human alters/headmates in our system?

🌱 - are there any funny/interesting stories/events that have happened in our system that u want to share?

🌿 - what's ur favorite part about headspace/inner world (if u have one/can access it!)

🍈 - do we have a system journal/plan to start one?

🥑 - do we have a system wishlist/plan to make one?

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While on the subject of plurality, I cannot stress enough how some terms are not interchangeable for everyone and how important it is to respect that (otherwise it can come off as kind of dehumanizing).

If someone uses the term "headmates" for their system, please do not use "alters".

If someone uses "fictive" please do not use "introject" for them.

The same applies to a myriad of other plural terms but the main point is: respect what people call themselves

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it genuinely really is okay if someone is plural but doesn't fit into the extremely rigid and specific criteria for DID or OSDD. it really is not the end of the world, nor does it mean that system is lying or wrong about being plural. we've just barely begun to recognize and even accept plurality as a human experience, let alone study it in a wide array of its manifestations. plurality doesnt always need to be pathologized. just let systems be.

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I love BOTH gorlies

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yas ghoul slay!

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For Me + A ton more headmates

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Don’t have a flag but rather a role to define mine

Gardener

A Gardener is a headmate whose role is taking similar to a caretaker but for plants. They care for or the plants in-or out of the system/headspace-Daisy🍄!

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Dude, I keep getting Monster high feed and Willow hasn’t even been in front that often

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