@Innercirclesys goes by Maggot and uses he/him pronouns.
Rules and regulations:
•Don't be weird abt the introjects (treating them like their source character, parasocial weirdness, stuff like that (or at least ask first idk man))
• idk what else rn
DNF:
•MAPs/Zoos that aren't trying to seek professional help/ trying to advocate to victimize those who can't consent
•Ppl who care too much about shipcourse (we're a bunch with differing opinions)
•Fake-claimers
•anti-endo/sysmeds
About us:
We're a bodily 20 plural system we think osdd but not exactly sure. We figured there's more than one fairly recently (19) but tbf I/we're dumb of ass. We have a very little amnesia and quite a bit of brain fog. Also fictive heavy, obviously.
Collective name: Circle
🐛: I'm Myles/Maggot, I'm the host and ✨main character✨ here (/j)! I think I might be a Miu Iruma (DRV3) fictive but idk man whatever (🏳️⚧️ he/him). If the post/tags doesn't clarify who's talking, it's probably me by default. @foxboyscott (<- i made this blog when I was 16 man im sorry its also my main 😭)
🥀/🌹: I go by Onyx or Kiyo. I am a Korekiyo Shinguji (DRV3) fictive... I am very sensitive, please be kind. (Primarily He/they) @stoneserpent
🌼: I'm Dahlia (She/her), I'm a flower introject girl and came from OCD intrusive thoughts or whatever🙄. I like vocaloid stuff, especially Rin Kagamine🍊 Also I'm a syskid (12) and that's notable I guess @flowercookiecutter
🐈⬛: Ryoma or Sterling (he/him). we think im a protector but im barely here. idk. Ryoma Hoshi (DRV3) fictive. @notbread
🎀: Annnd my name is Charlise! you can call me Charlie or Totty! Uhmm I'm a Todomatsu Matsuno (Osomatsu-San) fictive but I'm 🏳️⚧️ (She/Her)! ^w^ @hottoddymatsu (Hot toddy like the drink btw💗)
🍭: My name is Harvey Harvington! Welcome to our... blog! Eh... right, I'm a fictive of Harvey Harvington (Bloodmoney/Human Expenditure Program) Buuut I prefer not to talk about that much, yeah? (He/Him) @fairyflossed
🚬: Kevin (Kevin Spencer). (He/it). I don't like it here @brokenheaded
🪲: Hi! I'm Beetle! Beetle is a Gonta Gokuhara fictive (DRV3)... First-person speak takes effort for me and doesn't come as naturally, but I like bugs and critters :) I don't come out much but I like looking at insect posts! (He/it/bug) @scarabaeus-hercules
👽: Call me Laura or Roger. Roger Smith (American Dad) fictive. (Any pronouns, life's too short.) @cosmic-diva <- Space queen 👑
✂️: Haha! I was actually one of the middle school alters! BACK FROM DORMANCY BABEY!! I'm Jackie (she/he) (Genocider Syo/Jack fictive!) @cutthroat-showboat
🖊: Hi I'm Maya (she/they). I think I was here before as a fragment of an old oc or something. I like spiritual & emo stuff and ghosts ig @paramoremal-activities
I’d like to take this time to remind everyone that self diagnosis is valid. One because we are living in fucking fascism and many people either don’t have health insurance or if they do, can’t afford to go to the doctor. We spent over sixty fucking dollars on groceries just for ourselves, one body, the other week. That’s nearly double what we were paying two years ago. Demanding everyone go get a diagnosis is so fucking classist.
Two, we’re a prime fucking example that self diagnosis can be right. We suspected for years and got involved in the system community and faced tons of backlash and people being terrible, just to finally get insurance and seek medical help for it and be told by our mental health team that we have DID. We were right. We always had been. Our roadblock was just the fucked up system.
Mental health professionals are fucking human and can be fucking biased. As someone who works in mental health, everyone in this line of work is either fantastic or literally the spawn of Satan and there’s no in between. Some people get into it for a manipulative power kick. Some people genuinely don’t care about doing their job and don’t want to be scrutinized by colleagues and supervisors and don’t care what that means for you, being ignored and unhelped and very potentially misdiagnosed and improperly medicated, which can be dangerous and highly traumatic.
Are you going to foot the bill of people going to get help? Are you going to network for good therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists? Are you going to comfort them after they have a bad session? Are you going to even hear them out?
Plurality, as conceptualized in peer-reviewed research:
Plurality, often also called multiplicity, is "having more than one self in the mind and body" (Eve & Parry, 2021).
Plurality "is not a diagnosis" (Eve, et al., 2023) and is "a broader concept than DID" (Christensen, 2022).
Plurality is "a broad term, which encompasses a range of experiences" because "people have individual conceptualizations of what it means to be ‘more than one’" (Eve, et al., 2023).
Plurality is "a term coined to be more inclusive than only that of traumagenic multiplicity" (Christensen, 2022).
Not all people who experience plurality will identify as a 'plural' or 'multiple.' Plurality is a useful umbrella term for the experience of more-than-oneness "but not necessarily a term reflective of one's identity or self-expression" (Christensen, 2022).
"[N]ot everyone who identifies as multiple will want or require mental health intervention for the condition they experience" (Eve, et al., 2023).
The concept of non-traumagenic plurality does not hurt DID research. "[T]he research confirming DID as a trauma-based disorder is doing just that: confirming traumagenic DID, the disorder, not Plurality, the identity . . . Distinguishing between the two does not need to invalidate either" (Christensen, 2022).
The idea that plurality is inherently disordered is a product of Western culture. "Within Western linear frameworks . . . there has been an emphasis on the ‘healthy self’ being integrated and whole" (Eve & Parry, 2021). "In indigenous cultures, esp. shamanic societies, a polypsychism (i.e. many selves) prevails" (Scharfetter, 2008).
Fakeclaiming and anti-endo / anti-plural rhetoric is traumatizing. "[H]aving a condition such as multiplicity that is not generally validated and recognised in a community can be, in itself, traumatic. Even if trauma does not precede the development of multiplicity, trauma-informed care would still be appropriate for many young people who seek help for multiplicity" (Parry, et al., 2021).
Mundane plurality is discovering that talking to "yourself" in your head is in fact not what thinking is conceptually,, and you just took it too literally because you're autistic /lh
baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them
What caused your trauma doesn't matter in your validity as a system, only the fact you dissociated as a child to cope with it. You're valid if your trauma:
Was sexual abuse
Was physical abuse
Was emotional abuse
Was psychological abuse
Was medical abuse
Was physical neglect
Was emotional neglect
Was medical neglect
Was something other than what I have listed
If it happened and caused trauma responses, it is trauma no matter why it is there. The only reason someone should care about what caused you trauma is if they are a therapist or significant other who is trying to help you heal. You do not owe explanations to anyone.
DID is (approximately) as common as autism; 1-2% of the human population have it. That means every 100 people you meet, one or two of them are likely to be autistic, and one or two of them will likely have DID. This means that, statistically, you will meet up to 100 systems across your life (and that’s only the ones from DID!) And that’s just based off the average number of people you meet (10000); you will likely see significantly more!
DID is not rare, and even if you don’t have it, someone you know likely does.
They may even have an autistic friend that you can meet.
It's such a good reminder that DID is way more common then people think. That learning about it is good because like people with other conditions it's good to be prepared to be gentle with people from all walks of life.
I'll add a few things I know from therapy and reading. Just a heads up, I talk only about traumagenic dissociative disorders because that's what I know, that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge the existence of other forms of plurality and system origins, I'm just not able to talk about it.
According to my psychiatrist, who is not specialized in DID but in trauma disorders, DID/OSDD/pDID and other forms of traumagenic dissociative disorders are present in between 1 to 2% of the population.
It doesn't need to stem from "extreme" trauma but from repeated trauma mostly, no matter the severity of it. Things as "mundane" as loneliness or emotional neglect can cause it because it is most and foremost a coping mechanism. If you are more enclined to dissociate to cope, you are more enclined to develop DID even from "mild" experiences. As shown in the book "The Body Keeps The Score" about PTSD, two people can experience the exact same traumatic event and one is going to dissociate to cope, while the other will not.
That's why some people will go through extreme trauma and not develop any dissociative disorders, while some others will experience milder experiences and develop DID/OSDD. It's kind of a matter of how your brain responds to things more than the events itselves.
Still, according to my psychiatrist, the issue with DID/OSDD, etc, is that it is WILDLY underdiagnosed. People love to say that "everybody has DID," but in fact, psychiatrists are absolutely not trained to diagnose these disorders. My therapist told me that she had to educate herself and that she wouldn't have even thought of doing it if she wasn't specialized in trauma disorders. They don't have any classes about it in school, or barely so, and most of them don't have any tools to diagnose nor treat these disorders. So, the people who are the most likely to actually get diagnosed are the most severe cases who are going inpatient or are hospitalised because they can't function as they are.
That doesn't mean that a system that is functional is less valid than another that has to be in and out of treatment. It just means, like any other illness/disease, that severity is on a scale, dissociative disorders and trauma disorders are a spectrum, and it fluctuates.
We knew we were a system years even before we stumbled upon the online DID/OSDD community. Some other systems are not aware they are one until they get a diagnosis. It just depends. At the end of the day, all you really have to think about is being able to live your everyday life without it being a constant struggle. That's what matters. But saying that DID is an "extremely rare disorder" caused only by "absolutely horrific extreme unfathomable traumas" is false and contributes to the underdiagnosis and, therefore, lack of care that people with these disorders face.
The lifetime prevalence of OCD is 2.3%, and you never see people call OCD "extremely rare" and saying it's statistically unlikely for someone to have it.
But because dissociative disorders are so much more mystified and stigmatized, a similar rate for them is apparently "extremely rare".
It's not even like actual information on it from professionals and researchers is particularly difficult to find, either. This article is literally the first Google result for "is DID rare" (and the Google overview that pops up BEFORE it even staight up says "no, it's not"...)
By the way, DID is more common than schizophrenia (0.75%), and yet you're more likely to be questioned for claiming to have DID than you are for claiming to have schizophrenia.
Hey, I saw your had a post that was about factives sourced from animals, and I raise you "This introject's source is a plant/flower" preferably yellow or orange dahlia themed since our plantive is Dahlia (The brain certainly is interesting)
i hope that is a dahlia - if not please tell me
Free to use by anyone. I don't have a DNI. Credit not necessary, but heavily appreciated.
Not related to my system or whatever, just me liking shows,
But Robbie Shapiro & Rex Powers from Victorius is so plural coded to me.
Like, Rex, notorious for thinking Robbie is a loser probably chose to use a puppet to represent themselves instead of being tied to a body he hates, hence not liking being called a puppet (bc technically he isn't the puppet, the puppet just represents him)
I'm not taking criticism, every time it's brought up people go "ouughh that's not how it works" literally every system is different, so it could be. (TBF most of those people usually are non systems that only know DID)
-🐛
(PS: The Rex being an alter using a puppet idea I figured out because
A. We literally have representative plushies
B. 🌼 from my own system hates the body and probably would do something similar with her plush if it was socially acceptable (which Robbie & Rex are notoriously not, even with other things). Also the hating the body/association with the host and taking it out by mocking the host thing)
