Welcome to our system account, made because being a system publicly is scary, and this is easier!
Please do interact with us, we rarely get to openly interact outside of private spaces, and it'd be great to talk to others freely without fear of exposing who we are.
💖 We're a professionally recognized DID system, working through a shit ton of trauma and who knows what else. (In therapy as of now.)
💝 Be patient, please.
💖 Our system is semi-large, I don't know actual numbers, I as in the host! We're a covert system, and I wasn't really supposed to know yet so I still know fairly little about most things going on.
Please read our Q&A
Tags + Boundaries under the line vvv
Boundaries
- Please don't bring NSFW content to this blog, this includes overtly suggestive content, gore, etc.
- Syscourse is unwanted here, I don't care enough to participate and have more things to worry about. I also just straight up don't understand and do not want to. No syscourse here.
- Don't contact me after I block you. If you get blocked, it's likely for a good reason. I'm not a judge, don't try to plead your case to me.
- Discourse in general isn't wanted here, this includes ship discourse or whatever the current internet war is.
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Tags for Alters!
⭐️Dove - #dubbletrubble
🍹Zay - #smoke grass die fast
🩸SLH - #SLHcore
🌺Eve - #eve needs a drink
(tags will be added if, and only if, this blog is used by litteraly any other part, which I doubt.)
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Blog Tags
#infosyspost - Things like this post, or general information to know abt our parts or our sys.
#meowposting - Talking in general.
#artsyspost - Art posted of alters or sys related things!!
#silly inbox folk - Asks!
#Friendship is magic - Tag for friendos!
#info rb - Tag for reblogs that apply to us specifically.
#reblogging 💨 - Self explanatory, tag for reblogs :P
A narcissistic trait holder is a role for an alter who holds traits that are found to be narcissistic in the system. They may help manage these traits, or they may enable them. These alters are typically triggered into front when situations arise that affect their narcissism.
There are three types of these holders; positive, negative, and general/neutral.
-A positive narcissistic trait holder may front when the system is praised, rewarded, valued, or elevated in status. Such as a professor highly grading their work and claiming them to be very intelligent or creative, or if the system is given a promotion at their work to a higher position. These holders may front to hold onto the ego boost and keep the memories as evidence that they are indeed better than others. Positive narcissistic trait holders may also be ego holders or confidence holders.
-A negative narcissistic trait holder may front when the system is devalued, disregarded, chastised, or lowered in status. Such as being excluded from activities they felt they should be part of, or ignored by those around them when they feel they deserve praise and attention for hard work. These holders may front to lash out or assert that the system is not at fault for the situation, and may try and find reasoning for failure or try to cope with the situation by participating in activities that boost their ego. Negative narcissistic trait holders may also be anger holders, insecurity holders, or envy holders.
-A general/neutral narcissistic trait holder fronts in any variety of situations, and can fulfill the roles of both negative and positive narcissistic holders. This is a catch all.
NOT EXCLUSIVE TO NPD, coined for anyone who experiences narcissistic traits! However, coiner has NPD, and made this specifically with personality disorders in mind.
That I want to be loved as a collective and an individual, that if you care about one of us you should care about all of us and vice versa.
people often only care about us as an entirety and not our individual needs or only care about individuals and nobody else.
that and I wish people were more okay that while we cycle who fronts, parts who aren't around much aren't gone, just not in front, and it's okay to befriend new parts - we don't bite.
This isn't true. I'm pretty sure what you're referencing is that, in general, historically DID Systems go through Syscovery in their late 20s and 30s. But that research was done before wide internet usage.
I believe @sysmedsaresexist has already done an in-depth post about this. I'm just not sure where the post is to link directly.
Holy shit, yeah, no, that's false, children as young as five have been known to have distinct alters and states. It's totally possible. It's more COMMON for children to experience imaginary play, intrusions, and emotional outbursts, but they can and do have alters. See the ISSTD children and adolescent treatment guidelines, I was just reading this Spiegel paper (DSM author/ chairman) this morning, May 2024, which states,
While there are case reports and case series describing patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID) including among children, adolescents, and geriatric patients... Most patients with DID have reported that symptoms of the disorder first appeared during childhood.
Now that's not specifically about alters, so here's another link.
In time, such a child may begin to emotionally and cognitively split into alternate identities. Research has shown that the average age for the initial development of alters is 5.9 years old.
They definitely can and do have alters, even if it's not the typical presentation. Children really struggle to put words to this experience, and that lends to a lot of confusion in diagnosis, but... yeah, there's tons of case studies on young children with full amnesiac switching and alters.
something about CDDs that I don't see talked about much is how you can just flip your opinion about something in moments and can hold it true for yourself at that moment. like, one of our frequent fronters likes pastel pink. they really really like it.
I absolutely fucking despise it. when asked their favourite colour they go pastel pink and yellow, I'd say it's cornflower blue or gold.
now this is overexemplified but it's what up with us at any given moment. I'm eating something, suddenly I can't stand it anymore, I hate it and I'd rather starve to death than eat it; oh that hobby I like so much! *loud incorrect buzzer* wrong! hate; etc
like our most accurate way of telling if we switched is asking ourselves if something is still true to us. I guess this is what the "people say you're lying when you're actually telling the truth" is about. what I'm saying IS true, but what I said before was also true in that moment, etc
as a system of colour, I just want to set stuff straight about alter race.
alters can have different skin colours to the body, but that does not make them a different race than the body. skin colour is just part of someone's appearance while race has multiple factors to it such as culture.
being a poc is an experience that only someone who is bodily a poc will understand, hence why "alter race" is just impossible.
it's like how an adult alter in a minor bodied system will not have the same mentality as an actual adult since the brain only has the experience of a minor to base that alter off of.
also I know that I've been focusing on poc, but this applies to any race
Remember folks, your alters that PRESENT as a different race, only present that way based on YOUR PERCEPTION of that race. Any backlash or racism they’ve “experienced” is based on the PERCEIVED bigotry against them, because you yourself have not experienced it! <3
Literally just like OP is saying, an adult alter in a minor system is based on that systems PERCEPTION of adults, not on adult experience.
shout-out to people who fit the demonised DID stereotypes seen in movies & other media:
if you have violent &/or aggressive alters, i love you.
if you have complete blackout amnesia between alters, i love you.
if you have little to no communication between alters, i love you.
if your switches are overt & "distressing to witness", i love you.
if you've ever been called "scary", a "freak", or even "evil" for how your DID presents, i love you so much.
your experiences are real. you do not have to sugar-coat your disorder to make it more palatable for others. your brain helped you survive as best it could, so i hope you will find peace & healing when the worst is over. 🤍
In order to celebrate 100 days of posting, here are 100 questions for you to answer! You can either answer them all at once, or let others send in the numbers they are most curious about!
Some of them are general questions, others are just really silly and should not be taken too serious. I put a lot of effort into coming up with all of these, so I truely hope you have fun with this!
For simplicity sake, all questions will use the words "System" and "Members".
1. What is your System name and / or the name you collectively go by?
2. Which word do you prefer to use for your System? (example: System, Collective, Constellation, ...)
3. What are your Systems origins, if you choose to label them?
4. Do you have any Subsystems?
5. Do you have any Sidesystems?
6. What is your opinion on you& / your& language and similar types?
7. What methodes do you use to keep track of your System and it's Members?
8. What is your Systems ways of communication?
9. Is communication hard or easy for you (and why is it the way it is)?
10. Do you view yourselves as parts of one person or as multiple people in one body?
11. Who are you out to as plural?
12. What languages do you collectively / one of you speak?
13. What is something you can't seem to collectively agree on?
14. If you have a collective Identity (such as Gender or Orientation), what is it?
15. Do you collectively identify as queer / LGBTQIA+?
16. Do you collectively identify as Otherkin, Alterhuman or Nonhuman?
17. Do you have a collective rentry / carrd / something along those lines? (feel free to share!)
18. What does switching feel like for you?
19. Are you Monoconscious, Polyconscious or something else?
20. What does fronting feel like for you?
21. How many System members do you have?
22. Which word / words do you prefer to use for members of your System?
23. Which age group seems to be the most common in your System?
24. Which gender seems to be the most common in your System?
25. Are there any talents / hobbies you picked up because of a Member?
26. Do you have any in-system relationships?
27. Do you label roles within your System (and if yes, which ones?)
28. Are most of your Members introjected, brainmade or something else?
29. Do you use names, emojis or something similar to sign off messages (and if yes, which ones and why?)
30. Do any of your System members use Xenogenders?
31. How do Members pick face claims?
32. Do you have any Introjects of popular sources?
33. Do you have any Introjects of unpopular sources?
34. Do you have nonhuman Members?
35. Do any of you use Typing Quirks?
36. Do all of you front, or only a selected amount?
37. Are there any Members who can't or prefer to not speak?
38. Are most of you short or tall in height?
39. Is there a Member that is collectively loved by all in the System?
40. Do any of you struggle with being front-stuck a lot of the time?
41. Do you have a Headspace (if not, is there a reason)?
42. What does your Headspace look like?
43. How do Members look like in Headspace? (example: Cartoony, Foggy, Realistic, ...)
44. Is there a reason why the Headspace looks the way it looks?
45. Is it easy for you to enter Headspace?
46. Do you remember what happened in Headspace when you switch into front?
47. Does time in Headspace pass (and if yes, is it at the same speed as in real life)?
48. What is your favourite place in Headspace?
49. Are there "NPCs" within your Headspace?
50. Are there any interesting fun facts about your Headspace?
51. Are there any "System Stereotypes" you fit into?
52. Who of you would be considered the "evil alter"? (in a lighthearted, joking manner)
53. What is your favourite inside-joke with a Member?
54. What is your favourite Plural meme?
55. Is there any character that you headcanon as plural?
56. Is there any show or movie that you believe is a good plural representation, despite that not being its intention?
57. Is there any song that you believe decribes your plural experience?
58. What about an artwork that describes your plural experience?
59. Which Member of your System do you believe to be the prettiest of them all?
60. Do you collectively have a lucky number?
61. When did you first discover your System?
62. How many Members did you know about during your Syscovery?
63. Was accepting your Plurality a challenge for you?
64. How did you learn about Plurality?
65. Where there any signs of your Plurality, if you look back at your past?
66. Do you think your Syscovery changed a lot in your life?
67. If you're out to others as plural, have they ever told you later on that they already thought about it before you realised?
68. What was the biggest struggle during your Syscovery?
69. Was there any big event that led to your Syscovery?
70. What is something you want questioning plurals to know?
71. Are you Neurodivergent (and if yes, how?)
72. Do you have any physical disability?
73. Do you have a dissociative disorder?
74. Do you have any other disorder?
75. Do symptom vary in intensity depending on the fronter?
76. Do you think your disability / disorder has an influence on your plurality?
77. Do you have amnesia of any kind?
78. Are there Members who deal better with symptoms than others?
79. Do your disorders / disabilities influence communication or switching within your System in any way?
80. Does being plural help with your disorders in any way? (example: another Member switching in to take care of the body during difficult times, ...)
81. Which is your favourite plural flag?
82. If you have one, which is your favourite plurality related tumblr blog?
83. What is a fun fact about your System?
84. What is a flavour of ice cream that describes you collectively?
85. Which pride flag is the prettiest, in your collective opinion?
86. If you collectively had to choose between being a sweet or a sour candy, which do you pick?
87. Your body always morphs into what the current fronter(s) look like, would you want this power or not?
88. Is there a Hatsune Miku in your System?
89. Who has been in your System the longest (if you can remember)?
90. If you collectively had to choose, would you rather only eat sweet foods or only eat savoury foods for the rest of your life?
91. If you collectively had to choose, would you pick to become a vampire or a werewolf?
92. Your body is transfered into one of your Members sources, which do you pick and why?
93. If all of you turned into animals right this second, which animals would we find in your System?
94. What would a Minecraft server with all of your Members look like? (example: chaotic, peaceful, laggy, ...)
95. If you could choose between only living in Headspace or only living in Meatspace (real life), which would you choose?
96. What topic would you collectively make a youtube channel about? (it can't be plurality!)
97. Which superpower would your body obtain, if you had to collectively decide on one?
98. Who would pick the coolest tattoo for the System and who would pick the worst?
99. If you only were allowed to eat one food for the rest of your life, but you would have to decide on the food collectively, what would it be and what would the decision making look like?
100. What is the most fun about doing polls and answering questions, in your opinion?
shoutout to systems with trauma less commonly talked about in our community
-shoutout to people who grew up in and around the foster care system
-systems who were neglected because their parents prioritized their siblings
-people who have been traumatized by another system
-unwilling loners
-disabled people who've been denied accommodations
-people who have suffered with violent/frightning intrusive thoughts or delusions as long as they can remember
-kids who lost close family members
-people with medical, and also dental trauma
I think sometimes we as a community fall into the "trauma olympics" and forget that lots of things are traumatic to young children. You don't need specific types of trauma to be valid and to deserve care. It's easy to be scared that because you weren't traumatized the same way as someone else that you aren't "really traumatized" or that you're faking your symptoms. But always remember that you were a child, if something bad happened to you and nobody was helping you cope with it, that's enough. Don't invalidate yourself because of trauma that somebody else went through. You are loved, reach out for support if you need it <3
Shout out to systems who are still in unsafe environments, where each day is a struggle. I want you to know I am here for you, rooting for you, and hoping for you to find peace, rest, and healing soon.
Shout-out to systems who have inconsistent memories due to amnesia. Shout-out to systems who can remember some things one day but cannot the next. Shout-out to systems slowly recovering memories. Shout-out to systems trying to piece together traumatic or otherwise stressful memories different alters hold. Shout-out to systems who once had little amnesia but now struggle with a lot.
