HELLO Welcome to our little journal. We use this space to be open about our plurality, save resources, and jot down our research. We dont post about this stuff on main, so we'd like if you could not mention this acc on any of our mains ^^' Also do not bring syscourse here, im having a hard enough time dealing with myself
Our main aim is to understands our situation better.
WHAT WE KNOW: We have traumagenic median plurality. Switching for us does not (usually) come with amnesia. We flucuate between using we/us and i/me Um thats all i can think of right now, feel free to ask us questions, it helps us figure things out.
Switching is the process of changing who controls your system's body, mind, or other central resources. A switch can be voluntary or involuntary, and controlling and managing switching is a learnable skill.
Switching isn't a universal plural experience, but when systems do switch, they might experience it in a variety of different ways. It doesn't always feel like "changing places"!
This chart can't cover all possible experiences of switching, but it does talk about some of the more common switching experiences that we've had.
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Some (but not all!) systems experience switching. Switching is when the system member in control of your body changes.
There are a lot of different ways that switching can be experienced. It doesn't always feel like "changing places"!
Many nicknamed examples of switching experiences are given:
The light switch, which is the stereotypical idea of switching. One person is immediately and cleanly replaced by another.
The becoming, which is more of a gradient or slider than changing places. One person slowly shifts until they become someone else.
The "two hours later"- sometimes switching can take a long time.
The "when did that happen? Apparently we switched?", where someone has been in control for an extended period of time but only realizes much later.
The possession ("mine now!"), where one system member shoves another out of control to take it for themselves.
The trigger, where a trauma trigger causes one system member to freak out. This prompts someone less affected by that trigger to switch in to handle it.
The vacuum filler, where one person ditches front and someone else is pulled forward to take their place.
"Pikachu, I choose you!", where one system member pulls someone else into control.
The revolving door ("Hello! Goodbye! Hello!"), where system members rapidly trade control of your body in quick succession. If you experience amnesia between system members, then this can be pretty disorienting.
The ensoupening- sometimes, you switch and it's not really clear who you are anymore.
The "what the fuck? What were you even doing???" where you suddenly find yourself in a very unexpected, disorienting, or bizarre situation that you weren't entirely aware was happening a few seconds ago- for example, finding yourself sitting at a desk while your headphones play incredibly chaotic music that you wouldn't pick personally.
At the bottom, the image is credited to semiplural.tumblr.com and na.beepbird.net/comics.html. The image is dated July 2026.
it's 1am and I had a really dumb thought that there tends to be genres of sysmembers that pop up repeatedly (like how absolutely everyone got a rabbit of some variety recently) and I thought itd be really funny to turn that into a bingo card
reblog with your cards i wanna see XDD ill rb with mine in the morning
Syscourse is really funny if you try to imagine people saying the same things about any other mental phenomenon.
"DNI if you claim to be 'sad' without an MDD diagnosis"
"You're 'proud' of being 'self-confident'? Stop romanticizing NPD, it's a debilitating disorder for people who really have it, faker."
"Trauma is the only valid origin for psychosis, people who claim to have 'hallucinated' because of drugs or sleep deprivation are either lying or they just don't know how traumatized they are"
"Well, I developed my agoraphobia from being kidnapped and tortured THREE TIMES at the age of six, so anyone who claims they developed it later in life or from less severe trauma is faking."
i think the worst thing that can happen to a fictive/fictionkin/etc is when people only care about you because they ship you with another character . Bonus points if you dont even like that character
