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Head count

So we're still not 100% sure who everyone is yet, and most of us don't have individual names, but I think Tumblr lets people edit posts now so we'll edit this as we go!

First, here's a post with all of our art/creative blogs:

So ummmm since we can never decide on what to create (because we're all different people with different talents and different interests), I

See who's currently fronting here (may be incorrect if I've been offline for a while)

Now onto who's who!

Morgan

Role: host (I think? not sure if the original)

Age: 21

Pronouns: e/em/er / he as a backup

Interests: art, Magic: the Gathering, TTRPGs (mostly 5e DND and Lancer)

morgansystem

Tumblr won't let me properly edit this post so I'll update here

Morgan/body is now 23.

We've just been calling "Michelle" mom.exe because we realized it's usually more mind middleware than a full alter

There's other more innocuous mind middleware we call dad.exe but that's mostly the internal jukebox (although it has a tendency to start playing songs every time we hear words in them, which is why we call it dad.exe because our dad did that a lot)

Other named alters:

[redacted]:

Core. Age fluctuates, but never much older than 10. The little girl who never got a chance to grow up. Her name is redacted because we left that name behind a long time ago, but it stopped being us way before it stopped being what we were called. A similar experience to a trans singlet's deadname, I suppose, if they subscribe to the "who I used to be vs who I am now" model of transition.

Felix:

Lumberjack he/him lesbian. Just wants to build his wife a cottage in the woods (with internet etc though because our spouse is a gamer who grew up middle class lol).

Isla:

She/her. Literal mermaid. HPD symptom holder. Eats men (in source! Pls do not call the cops on us lol). DND character we got too attached to.

Salem:

That cat Max was talking about. He/it/any. Black cat whose fur shines brown in the sun. Obsessed with our spouse.

Julian:

He/him. Doctor. Chief Medical Officer of Deep Space Nine (fictive from Star Trek).

Unnamed alters (by emoji sign off):

🧑‍💻

He/him in a nonbinary way. Programmer. Wants to be a hacker but not any good at it and Raph/Alex/Morgan won't let him commit crimes. Not sure when he (I) formed, but I think he's been growing up alongside Morgan. Young adult.

#🧑‍💻

reimeichan

Think systems with a high number of fictional introjects are a new phenomena? Kluft's paper on polyfragmented/extremely complex DID from 1988 includes a patient with LOTR introjects, and another based off of Shakespear's Tempest. Fictional introjects have been a thing for a very long time!

reimeichan

Yep! You can find it here.

(also the URL in case tumblr eats that hyperlink like it sometimes does)

trenchcoat-of-hats

We actually love this paper. We got a lot out of it. There's actually a lot more said that fakeclaimers always say is fake. Some key takeaways:

1. very high numbers of alters is very possible. The highest number in this study was over 4,500! 40% had 26-50 alters, 4% had 51-75, 12% had 76-100, 19% had 101-200, 8% had 201-300, and 20% had 300+

2. there's "ad hoc" forming of alters, as in they form frequently and often arbitrarily. "One patient was so apprehensive about her consultation with me that no alter would agree to attend. A new alter was formed for the occasion." Some even "developed a pattern of forming new alters in the face of trivial stressors and inconveniences, or whenever they felt cornered." And there was evidence of forming multiple at once, "almost two-thirds developed complex splitting patterns so that more than one alter emerged on each occasion of the formation of new alters."

3. innerworlds! "Over two-thirds had developed elaborate inner worlds, in which the personalities interacted among themselves". And "in some cases alters appear to have been created to do no more than to fill roles in these inner worlds."

4. yes, fictives, and factives! Some "formed alters based on the therapist." And in fact, "most MPD patients have alters based on identification, internalization, and introjection". And introject-heavy proof: "a small percentage have formed a massive number of alters in this manner as a defence against object loss."

5. there's the phenomenon of essentially cycling through alters, or as the study describes, "with each major life change some or all of the alters were created anew, and their predecessors might either remain active or subside, and become covert or latent."

6. even full alters (not fragments) can be relatively similar to each other: "this patient, with over 4,500 alters, had only 300 alters that were as poorly defined as the alters in Case 19 [(fragments)]. They were remarkably full when they appeared, although many were quite similar to one another. It was as if the same "basic issue" types of alters could be reduplicated readily, and regenerated again and again over the course of the patient's life."

7. the author rejects "splitting" terminology in most cases because "the mind, rather than dividing itself, rather multiplies itself, recopies itself selectively, or rearranges a finite number of elements in patterns of great potential variety." And also, "if one understands the process of alter formation as one of defence reduplication and/or reconfiguration rather than division, the problem of wondering how the mind becomes divided into such complexity ceases to be relevant."

We love this. This study really speaks to us. And it was published in 1988. Amazing.

aegleseeker

@bellaswansong

bellaswansong

Also check out Kluft's 1991 paper, Clinical Presentations of Multiple Personality Disorder:

This one ALSO mentions a lot of things that have become popular to fakeclaim.

#Ohhhhh so that's why we do that

cavityinmybrain

i have a CDD and i struggle(d?) with internal communication a lot. i’ve tried a lot of advice i saw online and practically none of it helped, especially since i have little to no internal visualization abilities and a lot of what i saw revolved around headspace. the only piece of advice that helped is one i got from my therapist.

ask your parts for help. and not just for the big things. ever since i have started asking my parts for help, i have noticed a significant spike in our ability to work together and communicate.

when i started my T shots and i was too scared to do them myself? yelling internally to ask for help.

couldnt fall asleep and i needed up in the morning? yelling for gatekeeper to ask for help getting to sleep.

struggling at work to where i couldn’t handle it? go to the bathroom to beg for someone else to take over.

it hasnt solved all of my problems, i still struggle to remember what other parts did (cough cough, CAV, cough cough) and gatekeeper still takes memories if he thinks i cant handle them, but being able to ask for help and know i will receive it has helped so much. it feels dumb at first (especially those night laying in bed and calling out for gatekeeper to help me fall asleep lol) but looking back on my communication internally from last november/december to now, i can see the difference.

#Gonna try this and if it doesn't work at all I will take it as evidence that I'm faking it ✌️#Morgan

dear exclus whose post I just reblogged, sorry, I deleted it

I forgot for a second that I don't have a community, and that every time I find someone with similar disorders to me I have to check to make sure that I'm allowed to interact with them despite not being a bigot

narcissisticpdcultureis

npd & plural culture is finally using the fronter function on pluralkit because if ex checks my system theyll see ive moved on and am doing so much better. my headmates are obviously functioning better than yours are -👽✌️

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#Yeah if we weren't too traumatized to share a Discord server with our ex we'd do this too #ftr first we/our mean a subsection and last we means the whole system.#Not everyone was there or has that trauma but anyone in the system could be convinced to do something like this lol #Some of us have a personal vendetta #Others are defensive of the others she hurt even if we weren't there (e.g. Alex)#Raphael wanted to be doing this anyway and doesn't care why #And some just want to cause suffering and mostly don't care who (e.g. Salem)

U.mm nvfm I deleted the thing I just reblogged bc OP has Israeli flags in their DN. Anyway. Genocide bad.

When the future cyberpunk programmer and the medieval fantasy mermaid are co-fronting at time of purchase

[ID: Thigh-high trans pride socks from sock dreams, accompanied by a free sticker of a femme in scale pattern thigh-highs, with a very mermaid aesthetic. End ID]

#plural #🧑‍💻#isla

pride-sysboxes

[This system is collectively aroace spec]

Likes/Reblogs appreciated if used!

narcissisticpdcultureis

Npd culture is being jealous of cats because when they think they're better than everyone, people think it's cute.

- 🌧️hydra

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#A source of species dysphoria 4 me. How come when my son is a little bastard he's adorable but when I am in a human body I'm problematic???#Salem

wawhii

I think one of my favourite things about plurality is firsts.

Things as mundane as first time brushing our hair, first time choosing a meal, first time going shopping, but then there's ones as special as first haircut, first time buying an outfit, first time presenting as oneself.

I just got my hair done. We all pretty much wanted the same thing - just a better version of what we already had. But Soma and Excal came along for the ride, and feeling and hearing them be enamoured with the experience was fucking amazing. And now we're voting on what colour to dye our hair next time!

Would love to hear other plural's thoughts on this.

morgansystem

Idk if (for us) it's necessarily firsts for individual headmates or just the amnesia, but we can rewatch a show so many times and always forgot enough of it it's good again lol

Is it weird to want to find and date another introject from my source (preferably one of my boyfriends from source?)

#julian #saw a Garak on plural Tumblr and Morgan's mom.exe gave me shit for immediately being interested

pocket-deer-belly

honestly advertising is so fukcing wasteful not even just in the convincing you to buy shit you never actually wanted but like

how much electricity is wasted displaying ads that could've gone to keeping houses warm. How much paper is produced just to be turned into pamphlets and ads that will just be thrown away. how much internet bandwith is wasted just on the amount of ads that are on the internet nowadays. How many hours worth of labor went into producing ads that are going directly into my adblocker or my waste bin that could've been time spent doing literally ANYTHING useful?

priscaren

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