🏁 (if you have anything to say. this ask is a lot)
warnings for jealousy?? and blurriness. and feeling a lack of self? idk if i need to warn these things. if i missed anything please put it in the tags. sorry in advance for the really wordy ask i think i repeat myself multiple times
i feel so jealous of other systems all the time.
im a newly discovered system (known for maybe 3-4 months?) and yet i feel like ive barely gotten anywhere with unmasking and separating/identifying the different identities in my head.
i helped someone i know with their syscovery recently and they almost immediately had an alter with a name and pronouns and appearance and general identity. im obviously happy that they've discovered this but i can't help but feel jealous that others have like. alters that are actually recurring. ones they can easily identify the presence of. it took me weeks to identify anyone and even then they don't feel consistent at all and didn't always return
i know all that stuff about "everyone learns stuff at a different pace!" but i nearly constantly feel blurry and empty and lost. 95% of the time i can't even begin to come up with a name or pronouns or internal appearance. i feel like ive made no meaningful progress after all this time and i HATE it. i don't even know how many people are in here because it feels like the vast majority of the ones i had a while ago dont exist anymore. i don't even know who i am right now and im scared
it doesn't help that my entire system is made up of non-posessive switches.
i also get really jealous of those with any meaningful communication with their alters and anyone with a headspace.
i feel so often that everyone else has their shit together more than i do. everyone else learns faster than i do. everyone else is more experienced than me. im too slow but also too impatient and god can i please just have ANYTHING
i might call it a blur, but it really just feels like a total absence of identity that i feel so often. i hate it. i want to be someone and do something but i never know anything
so often we just wait around for someone with an actual sense of self to come around because everyone who doesn't know has no idea where to start. including me. me and the others like me don't even know what we like or what pronouns to use or anything and it's impossible for me to make any distinction between us
i don't know what to do or what this is or what i am. it's getting so hard to be patient because i don't see any progress at all. we almost never know who we are and we hate it. i don't feel much of anything about anything besides this and it's driving me mad
Okay, so, a few things, one, everyone's Plurality is different, it could be that your system just doesn't function that way, which is totally okay and valid (not what you probably want to hear i know)
Second, this may be because you are not in a safe environment to look into those things and you're brain is trying to protect you by making that information impossible to find. We where in a very unsafe situation and we only got out of it about 6 months ago and we're only now discovering headmates and remembering things that are related to that situation, we were completely unaware, while our PPS knew what was happening and was under the assumption that we knew also (we didn't)
The brain is very powerful and confusing, I understand being jealous, but it's not always going to be a cut and dry like many systems make it out to be