[chimerid]

hello! we are chimerid, an assortment of animals living together in a human body. this is our secret sideblog for discussing our selves and our plurality! you may refer to us with the names "Chimera" (body/front) or "Menagerie" (collective), and the pronouns it/its or plural they. for ourselves, we use i/we interchangeably.

this is not a discourse blog. any attempts to start arguments on our posts will result in a block.

our body is in its 20s and is chronically ill. we have an unknown headcount and are still figuring ourself out. please do not ask who is fronting; unless we offer that information up, it is meant to stay private. posts may contradict each other, given that we often disagree or are unaware of others' opinions.

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER: we don't care about syscourse. we believe policing lived experience based on diagnostic criteria is a tool of psychiatric oppression and will take no part in it. all are welcome here, but this blog will focus on our own experience with trauma, dissociation, and disordered plurality.

TAGGING SYSTEM: color tags are used for artwork of the respective sysmembers; you can find all of our artwork under the tag #art. emote tags are used for talk and reblogs; think of them like diary pages where we scrapbook and journal!

FREQUENT FACES:

🕯 Violet @gh0stf0x

☁️ Blue @zephyrish (18+)

🦷 Red @houndteeth (18+)

🍵 Green @bovidaze

🧋 Cyan (DM for blog)

💿 Grey @shot-on-video

🐾 Yellow

[scooterplastic]

Gets so mad my pronouns change

[theweathersystem]

obedience and its price

[menageriesys]

special pride month pronoun reveal [subject to change bc we're still figuring ourselves out]

[chimerid]

an experience we're realizing has happened a lot with our system is that several of us aren't quite fictives in the traditional sense of being formed AS a character, but imprinted on a character shortly after becoming aware of our own existence and integrated them into our identity. some of us who had this happen identify as fictives and some don't. probably not all that uncommon but it's not something we see talked about often

[chimerid]

dissociative disorders frustrating sometimes because they make everything feel unreal and then you try to describe how it feels to people and they go "well that doesn't sound real" YES I KNOW

[chimerid]

we switch so frequently that i get scared every time i front for more than a day . like what do you mean i went to sleep and was still there when i woke up .... what do you mean i have to work 2 days in a row ......... that just doesnt seem fair to me

[chimerid]

everyone point and laugh

[chimerid]

we switch so frequently that i get scared every time i front for more than a day . like what do you mean i went to sleep and was still there when i woke up .... what do you mean i have to work 2 days in a row ......... that just doesnt seem fair to me

[chimerid]

plural pro tip: if u wear a mask and talk really quietly no one will notice you talking out loud to your headmates 👍

[bathhousekitty]

For the longest time, I truly believed I couldn’t have DID because I “didn’t have amnesia”.

Now, in my mind, amnesia meant everything sort of went black and you’d come to days later without a clue of what had happened or where you were. And while, that absolutely can be the case for some— it wasn’t for me.

Amnesia for me is much more complex. The gaps of memory I loose are patched together by the things that I do remember. My mind may omit half the day, but because I can remember the other half, it doesn’t feel as if I’ve lost any time truly. My mind worked overtime to hide how much time I was loosing, simply because if I knew, I don’t think the past version of myself would’ve handled it very well. </3

I suppose all this is to say that how amnesia presents itself is much more complex than most realize, especially when your brain is trying to protect you in its own weird way. It took me a long time to understand its true face… Q_Q

[monachopsis111]

Yes, your friend will "change" if they come out as a system to you. They seem like they're changing because they're trying to unmask around you and let their alters be themselves and not hide amnesia and other aspects of the disorder as much.

I understand it can be hard to realize your friend isn't exactly how you thought they were, but they're still you're friend. It's likely you've met their other alters, they just didn't say who they were.

Please support you friend, even if it's seemed like they've changed.

[leathersys]

[lazyleafeon]

[image description: a comic starring a dragon furry who has somewhat transparent skin and a large eye.

dragon, talking to someone offscreen: How long have I lived here? For forever, I was born here. Well, I say "born," but I was more, like... duplicated? cloned?

dragon: You know how some lizards can shed their tails? In some cases the tail goes and grows a body.

An example of this is shown, with the formed body having transparent skin, showing veins or nerves that stem from the shed tail.

dragon, with a disinterested expression: I've met the original before, but... We don't really keep in touch, y'know? End ID]

[chimerid]

rainbow of animals

[anineillustration]

kitchenalia

[leathersys]

so... we may have made something.

have YOU ever thought like this?????? i know WE hate the current plural diagnostics!!!! so! WE MADE OUR OWN!!!!!!!

it's 44 questions long, you can receive a total of 50 points!

it's unfortunately hosted through google forms for now unless we find something better...

Plural Checklist

*Due to how Google Forms is built, your "System Percentage" is shown as your amount of correct answers. Plural systems typically get a score

we are not doctors, do not take your result as medical advice.

feel free to reblog with your result!

note: if you're a system and got under 30, let us know! the 30 points minimum is based solely off of, like, five non-system takers. we're working on getting a bigger sample size!

[chimerid]

attempting to combine our knowledge about our dormant / infrequent fronters to figure out who tf these people are