F Island System

May spam like / reblog about certain topics. Most popular topics include mental health and LGBTQIA+ (positivity, art, humour, sharing experiences), “public service announcements”(things some believe people need to know), and photography/aesthetics Will try to keep focused but am a system of 30+ with a range of genders, ages and species ............. some may choose to use this blog differently

[boxedforyourdemise]

Under-discussed system vibes like

3rd person pov memories! yay

[yandere-angela]

realizing cis women also struggle with “passing” a lot of times and has a lot of the same issues with dysphoria trans women have (issues with putting on/losing weight, dissatisfied with bust size, not feeling “feminine” enough, etc.) has done a lot to combat dysphoria for me, cause it’s like, wow, we really have a lot more in common than we have in difference huh

[yandere-angela]

terfs are starting to find this post, and i gotta say: terfs getting mad at a post that explicitly acknowledges cis women’s struggles and with notes full of cis women agreeing and talking about their own struggles and experiences really speaks volumes about how anti-feminist, and frankly misogynistic, terfs really are, that they don’t even give a shit about cis women’s struggles and experiences

[nerdgul]

[bad-dogs-system]

I built a little blanket fort in my closet, filled it with pillows and blankets and comfort items and made it tucked away in a corner where it feels hidden

I go in there when I'm having a panic attack or flashback or just generally I'm feeling unsafe and like I need to hide

it helps a surprising amount, I'd recommend it

[bad-dogs-system]

I deserve safety

I deserve respect

I deserve to be treated with patience and compassion

I deserve the ability to make mistakes and be forgiven for them

I deserve to be spoken to and not shouted at

I deserve to be listened to

I deserve the right to experience negative emotions

I deserve the right to disagree and not be treated as if I am evil

I deserve people who care about me

I deserve a support system

I deserve care

[bad-dogs-system]

rapid switching always feels like the most severe case of ADHD, your attention is all over the place your memory is fucked you forget what you were writing halfway through the sentence because you can't hold on to who you are for more than 30 seconds intervals

[deadaccounts1112]

Honestly

-Pyro + Kwazii

[dragongirltitties]

reasons i deserve a tail:

it would be cute

i can be even more autistic

i can express emotions without managing my facial expression

improvised weapon

girls can pull on it

can snuggle it when taking a nap

[anarchistmemedistro]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[amy-santiagos]

[blueiscoool]

Cat and Mouse …..

Meanwhile in Washington DC, people are projecting the Ukrainian flag on the Russian embassy (back entrance) & embassy staff trying to blank it out with a white light.

[zoanzon]

God, the embassy staff would’ve been smart to just say ‘fuck it’ and let the people project the flag. Sure, that’s not a good look, but this? This?

This is funny. This will spread farther than pictures/video of the flag just statically projected on the embassy would have. Instead of a basic article maybe remembered for a week, this is gonna make it immortalized as a meme.

Good on those activists, and boy howdy did those embassy workers fuck up.

[terms-coining-deactivated202205]

Just a reminder endos aren't real! You can't have a "system" without trauma. Endos have never been real, and they never will be. Yes I think we should medicalize DID/OSDD/UDD. Endogenics are not valid because they *aren't real.* endos harm our community and dont have a place here because of their constant hurting of real systems. Proud anti endo.

[cambriancrew]

If nontraumagenic and nondisordered systems are flat out completely impossible, why is there exclusion criteria mentioning them in the DSM-V and DSM-V-TR? Why do the international experts in the World Health Organization specifically say they exist in its diagnostic manual, the ICD-11?

If they were impossible, wouldn't you think the world's experts would be saying "you can't experience being many in one head except through trauma leading to dissociative disorders" instead of what they actually say, which is "If your experience of being many is caused by spiritual or cultural reasons, or isn't experienced as aversive nor does it cause you dysfunction, it's not DID or any other disorder"?

Here's a folder with pdfs of every version of the DSM, including V and V-TR.

Shared with Dropbox

And here's the ICD-11's section on DID. Check its Boundaries With Normality section in particular, though please do read the whole page for context.

ICD-11 Browser contains the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision)

Feel free to read for yourself and see.

[terms-coining-deactivated202205]

There's a difference between a disorder and cultural/spiritual things. If you aren't a part of the religion you have no place to speak on this. As well as the fact that I have read both documents NUMEROUS times. System isn't even a medical term, much less is it in the criteria. You cannot have non-disordered or non-trauma formed DID/UDD/OSDD. They are DISORDERS. Look at the theory of structural dissociation. HELL, look at THE ENTIRE PURPOSE of dissociation in the first place. Your brain doesn't just randomly create dissociative barriers for no reason at all.

I think our friends CCC said it best, these are it's words:

Of course DID isn't the only kind of plurality, seeing as there's OSDD- but the whole determining factors that make these conditions what they are is that they're inherently rooted in trauma. As a rundown, DID + OSDD are severe forms of PTSD in which a brain, while developing between when a body is about 4-9 years old, will split into different states of being or mind. Since these are all alternative states of mind to regulate the trauma a child is going through, there is no possible way to have alters (a shortened version of alternative states of mind) without being traumatized. Of course, you may not remember your trauma. That's the point of DID- is that you're not supposed to be able to remember your trauma. It's a way to protect the brain, and give you a chance at having "semi-normal" experiences as time goes on. Most of these studies are not done by credential sources, on the other hand. Typically, when going for a reliable source, .net and .com are not good for medical conditions and their studies. However, the National Library of Medicine website is a credible source. The only thing to note with that is that they, in no way shape or form, even glance over experiences that "endogenic" systems seem to go through. They are all common DID/OSDD experiences. I think, with these articles, they give more information on how endogenic systems are wrong rather than how they're right. If it's that hard to find a good, reliable source, then it should really show how hard some of these people go to try and be validated within a community where they're not welcome. It's one thing to not remember your trauma, but it's another to say that you genuinely do not have trauma as a system. On that topic, there is really only one type of system (as we see it), being traumagenic. I'm unsure of where the other "types" came from, but it feels incredibly invalidating to have people try to come into system spaces and try to claim that they're not… Really a system? For lack of better wording, that is

[cambriancrew]

Since you agree that system isn't a medical term, and it therefore isn't referring to DID or OSDD-1 exclusively, what's the harm in nondisordered systems using it to refer to their experiences of being more than one? Especially since that's what it has meant since the 90s, when it was adopted by the multiplicity community to mean exactly just that, that is a grouping of entities in a body?

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Also, we Crew are culturally Christian, and there's Christian mediums (and mediums in pretty much EVERY religion). Some of us believe we have spiritual origins that align with that culture and belief system, for instance, that we Willows, the original four, are simply four souls bound together and placed in the same body. We've even recently reconnected with our guardian angels that we originally found when we were teenagers, and there's literally zero difference between them in our headspace and the rest of the Crew, with the exception that the angels have zero desire to front and so aren't bound to our Code of Conduct that deals with fronting, so they're considered Passengers, not Crew, per the way we delineate members.

So the whole "you have to be of that religion" point is pretty much moot.

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Also, two of the creators of the Theory of structural dissociation have said point blank that it's only talking about certain types of dissociation related to trauma, not all dissociation in general - and not all dissociation is pathological or harmful.

See also this paper by the third member of the group that created that theory:

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Furthermore, we don't even have what you'd likely consider dissociative barriers. We have what we refer to as identity barriers instead. These things are me, those are not me, and the things align with each of us's cohesive sense of self. No general dissociation or depersonalization or derealization, no memory issues outside of what's caused by our physical health issues (we've fibromyalgia, with episodes of fibro fog)... And exactly as the ICD says, our experiences of being many in one body are not experienced as aversive (rather the opposite) and do not cause difficulties with functioning (again, quite the opposite).

So we are - per the ICD, the DSM, and all the different members of our psych team over the past decade - an organized grouping of many different people in one body, without DID or OSDD-1.

[anarchblr]

"money isn't real" "the law isn't real" etc.

they are not the cause, they are the result

[anarchblr]

they're real out of necessity, out of pressure, from the relations they obfuscate, they're made "real" necessarily

[anarchblr]

no no no no no, friend, you misunderstand me, I'm critiquing this viewpoint!

We can't just "pretend money never existed", we have to change the relations that necessitates it in the first place! Change them to the point of complete departure, a break.

If we go forth without changing the conditions, these will force themselves back into existence by necessity. The good news is that they are contingent on how we relate to each other so if we relate in a different manner, we necessitate differently; or, put simply, don't need money and laws etc.

This is also the bad news because it requires a complete overturn of even very basic things not least of which includes economic arrangements. It's just a lot.

[anarchistettin]

in my lifetime, every attempt to address this need - even just speaking about it - has been met with deadly opposition

[evilgoatsimulator]

The part about “relations they obfuscate” is important because saying “I owe my landlord 1000 dollars every month” doesn’t explain the actual relationship but “if I don’t pay the police and the courts will make sure I am evicted”. So it’s really a description of a power imbalance between tenant and landlord (but mostly between agents of the state and those they oppress)

[guerrillatech]

Someone made an engagement map for TERF tweets

[mentalgearsolid]

Y’all in the notes please be mindful when you say stuff like “it’s time to kill the British.” The people suffering the most from British transphobia are....British trans people.

[britnxyspears]

^^^^^ for serious. British trans folks rarely get to transition at all, and when they don't they're often denied any social transition period. TERFs in the UK aren't here to start laws against people in America, they're trying and succeeding to kill off trans people in the UK. This really isn't the situation to cram on the brits to look and feel better about yourself... the trans body count is tremendous over there. Please have some respect for the people actually effected.

[ethanoic-acids]

Please do keep this in mind. As much as I find the anti-British memes funny, this is a genuine issue in the UK.

I’m a trans man in the UK, I’ve been on the waiting list to be diagnosed for just over 2 years now, and am expected to wait around another 2 years before I get my first appointment (if the wait time doesn’t increase). I will then wait around 2 more years (at the very least) for my second appointment, and if I’m very lucky and am diagnosed in that appointment (which is not guaranteed in the slightest), I’ll enter another waiting list to access healthcare. The service I’m in is considered around average. There are people waiting 6 years for their first appointment in other services, so I am incredibly lucky with my supportive family (in that I haven’t been kicked out or abused, parents still don’t respect pronouns or name) and I have good friends who respect me, as well as only waiting 4 years for a first appointment.

Maybe you could go private if you had the money, right? Go a similar route to trans people in the US? A diagnosis from a private practice can be rejected by your General Practitioner, and any referral you get for hormones or surgery can be completely dismissed, because you weren’t diagnosed by an NHS practice. You would likely have to go entirely private, which is not possible for thousands of trans people who rely on the NHS. This is an issue within the NHS and a completely lack of funding and training for trans healthcare, resulting in horrifically long wait time and difficult to access help, especially given doctors and surgeons have and are having their practices shut down because they aren’t considered proper by the NHS, despite being one of very very few who commit to this kind of work.

The transphobia in the UK runs far deeper than just tweets, and combining the aggressively transphobic attitude of a large portion of the population with the lack of healthcare due to wait times and difficulties with funding, you set up an incredibly difficult and dangerous position for trans people. Maybe this sounds like a bunch of complaints and nothing to people in the US, but people here are dying as a result of this. Please do keep this in mind when making anti-UK memes surrounding specifically transphobia.

[pelontriques]

also, our wait times for HRT have gone up to 6 years through the NHS.

[rococo-the-clown]

There are officially English asylum seekers in places like New Zealand now because other countries have acknowledged that it is genuinely unsafe for trans people to stay in this country.

[amgeforns]

#when you say everyone in [insert place here] should die #you are also talking about the countless number people who are suffering there #and that makes you kind of a cunt

[anarchistmemedistro]

[tylha]

maybe i am too old for tiktok

[sabrinareno]

My son once came back from a record shop visit with his uncle and with wide eyes and excited smile presented me with a cassette tape. “Look what I found!” As though he’d unearthed ancient pottery at a dig sight.

I love it. I love when my kids discover something that I take for granted. I hear songs with new ears because they are in a state of wonder. My son played me “Paint it Black” the other day, I’m like yeah Rolling Stones so what? And then I see his face and that LOOK like he just discovered sunsets and he’s like yeah but listen to this part, listen to the guitar right here - and I hear a song anew. Like watching a puppy see a bird for the first time, and oh oh right yeah birds are fucking amazing, forgot about that.

[geoffreytoday]

#finally a comment that doesn’t have disdain for kids discovering old things #isn’t it cool that someone didn’t know Queen and they got to hear it for the first time? #isn’t it cool to witness that excitement?

I think this is largely why “react” channels on YouTube have become so popular. Watching someone experience something you love for the first time is exciting. Rediscovering that thing through their eyes is also exciting. 

[thefinalpaperheart]

your whimsical stimming and autistic swag have bewitched me...

[workingclasshistory]

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[minotauri]

Humans pretend to be good in small ways for social clout but underneath where it counts, very definitely all selfish and bad.