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They donât really care actually about the terminology, they just want us to change it so that the community gets divided and dies out. It was NEVER about the word.
How come every single sysmed is now so concerned with terminology. They used to just come out and say it âENDOS R FAKINGâ âTULPAS DONT EXIST!â But now that we have proof they scared. Even if we successfully change the word youâll still be right up our asses. RIGHT UP OUR ASSES with another shitty excuse.
tulpamancy terminology: listening to those affected
hello all!
weâve put together a google doc recently with links to posts, articles, and testimonies by buddhists, asians, and/or tibetans regarding tulpamancy language and the harm it causes to the marginalized groups directly affected.
you can check out the google doc below!
The purpose of this document is to compile instances where Buddhist, Asian, and Tibetan individuals have spoken out against tulpamancy langu
a few things to note:
if you would like us to add a link, please reach out to us with the link in question so we can add it to the list!
if you have made a post thatâs been added to this list and would like to have it removed, get in touch and we will take it down asap.
we will continue to update this document as we find more links to add. thank you very much for reading - feel free to reblog this post or snag the link to share wherever you wish!
đ bro rlly out here taking rando singlets or sysmeds online testimonials as if they wonât talk shit about marginalized systems. Thereâs also testimonies of Tibetan Buddhists saying theyâre alright with Tulpa terminology but I guess this negates everything. Any and every sysmed will claim itâs appropriation regardless if thats true or if they are actually Tibetan because theyâre sysmeds. L take.
Anti-endos really think they have the authority over other peoples brains, huh?
On the other hand? Endos??? So fucking cool. Everyone wants be friends with them. Very cute too. Epic as heck!
dear sysmeds and systems in general,
pluralkit supports ALL systems, not just disordered ones.
have fun with that knowledge :)
Anyways
Isnât being anti-endogenic and being fucking dumb the same thing, almost like synonymous right?
FYI:
Endogenic systems don't "believe" we are systems/multiple/plural.
We ARE systems/etc. Undeniably so. (Please just wait on the results of the tulpa fMRI study for proof of that.)
The belief part involved is strictly about our origins. We believe that our systems' original origins are something other than trauma.
So please don't refer to us believing we're systems/multiple/plural. Refer to it only as a belief about our origin.
Please and thank you. đ
T-tulpa fMRI đđđ
You literally cannot be a system without trauma. Please get off the internet and go outside or something, holy shit đ at least do your fucking research that isn't research you found on Tumblr đđ
Not only are we doing research off of Tumblr, we're participating in some cutting edge research.
There is indeed an fMRI study being conducted at Stanford University in California primarily by Michael Lifshitz, Tanya Lurhmann, and Dr. Samuel Veissiere. We Crew were one of the first test subjects and not only ~went outside~, but we traveled halfway across the country to Stanford and went into their fMRI machine last spring. We'll be going back into it in a couple of months because they changed one of the tests after our participation and we're flying out for a conference then so we'll be in the area anyway. AFAIK, that'll be the last test before they begin analyzing the data they've gathered from tulpas and hosts brought in from across the USA over the past year.
The study doesn't aim to ~prove~ whether tulpas are Realâ˘, of course. You can't prove anything except that we literally are experiencing something and any fool could have told you that just from the sheer number of people claiming to experience a remarkably similar thing - the study is about figuring out more details about what exactly we experience and what's going on in the brain when we do. For instance, when hearing a tulpa's mindvoice, does the brain react like it does when hearing an external voice, an imagined voice, a mixture, or something else entirely.
There's so much we just don't know yet. So much more to learn and research. And we're just beginning.
A partial history of plural self-advocacy
Plural self advocacy is exactly what it says on the tin: plurals taking control of our own lives and being in charge of how weâre represented. Itâs what happens when we speak for ourselves instead of letting singlet academics do it for us. Plural self advocacy has a long history that stretches before the existence of the internet, and it has made a difference. Here are some notable milestones, and what theyâve done for us.
1987ish: Truddi Chase is giving interviews (x, x, x), very openly insisting that her headmates are real people and that integration is not a solution for them.
February 1989: The first issue of Many Voices is published. This newsletter for and by trauma survivors with dissociative disorders is likely one of the first places that plurals could speak about their experiences on their own terms. It would run for over 20 years until 2012, when it was bequeathed to the ISSTD so that the issues could be made publicly available.
1993:Â Richard P. Kluftâs âClinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorderâ mentions Truddi Chaseâs outspokenness against integration, disdainfully. âSome perceive the alters as real peopleâ, it says. This paints a clear picture of how multiplicity was perceived at the time.
1995:Â Astraeaâs web is created. This site continues to be one of the biggest plurality resources out there, and Astraea themselves have had a wide reach in plural activism - theyâll come up several more times in this article. They have curated a wide selection of sources on early accounts of plurality, plural involvement with legal issues, and the struggle against psychiatric abuse by all kinds of neurodiverse people, not just plurals.
1998: The Vickis begin to compile experiences of the âmidcontinuumâ, giving us the first terminology to describe median experiences. This is also, as far as weâre aware, the origin of âpluralâ as an umbrella term.
2001?: darkpersonalities publishes âwhy we are not MPD/DIDâ, generally regarded as the first known instance of a system explicitly separating themselves from the âdisorderâ definition. The empowered multiplicity movement grows from this. While many people take a cynical, bitter view towards people who still identify with their diagnosis, it begins to be associated with more sympathetic stances as it develops (x, x, x). Many of us look back disapprovingly on darkpersonalitiesâ attitude towards triggers and survivorship, but their role was still foundational to the concept of empowered multiplicity.
2002: Tim Bayne writes on the moral defensibility of forced integration, laying out a grounded philosophical argument for considering non-host plurans autonomous people. Itâs unknown what influenced him to write this paper, or whether any plurals were consulted.
2002?:Â The activist group Pavilion is formed. Their activities include outreach towards mental health professionals and academics, interviewing for radio stations, creating informational pamphlets and compiling resources for plurals and interested singlets.
2003: Matt Ruff, author of Set This House In Order, acknowledges Astraea and a plural friend-of-a-friend for introducing him to natural plurality and the idea that plurals donât have to integrate, inspiring his book.
2011-2013: The Coalition for DSM-5 Reform writes launches a campaign to urge the DSM taskforce to change much of the proposed writing. This gets a lot of attention from plurals, and as such the DSM-5 revises its definition of DID to include distress/impairment, and for the first time accepts the self-reporting of plurality as valid evidence (x, x). Itâs worth noting that this is an incredibly small step - as Astraeaâs web says, âIt was not proposed because therapists are beginning to recognize that non-disordered multiplicity exists; it was proposed in order to accommodate members of cultures and races where being more than one person is contextually normal.â But itâs a step, nonetheless, that begins to recognize that plurals are the ultimate authorities on our own experiences of ourselves.
May 11, 2015: VICE interviews systems including Astraea and Oure Gaiya for a piece questioning if plurality is always a disorder.
2016:Â The plurality playbook is published internally at Google. It covers advice for plurals on succeeding in the workplace while dealing with the specific challenges that plurals face, and advice for singlets on respecting and assisting their plural coworkers.
January 18th, 2019: The Double Gears system (well known at the time as streamer and speedrunner protomagicalgirl) disclose their plurality on Hbomberguyâs DK64 stream for Mermaids. The hashtag #pluralgang trends on Twitter as a result, encouraging many people on twitter to come out as plural and many more to realize theyâre plural by being introduced to the concept for the first time. #pluralgang has been a consistently active hashtag for the year since its inception and continues to be used to share resources, organize meetups, promote activism and generally remind plurals that theyâre not alone.
The plurality playbook is also publicly published around now. In the new foreword, the Lizzes cite the activity surrounding #pluralgang as their motivation for this.
March 2019:Â The first Plural Positivity World Conference is held. It was created as a counter-conference to the one hosted annually by the ISSTD. The fees for attending the World Congress on Complex Dissociation and Trauma start at $200 for just one day, making attending near-impossible for the lay person. As the Crisses put it, âThe ISST-D holding meetings, disseminating information, creating policy, teaching new standards for treatment, discussing new options, or sharing their research findings about us should not be done in a place that by design excludes us.â The Plural Positivity World Conference will run again in 2020.
December 25th, 2019: Power to the Plurals announces The Plural Association, a peer network for plurals which intends to provide phone, email and live chat helplines.
To this day, the overwhelming majority of plural activism has happened outside of the medical model. Improvements in the treatment of plurals have come from us being seen as people, and singlets seeing us as people has come from us viewing ourselves that way - by making spaces for us to understand ourselves and create narratives that arenât bounded by pathology. Even changes within psychiatry have mostly been motivated by pressure from plurals demanding fairer treatment. It is good, and necessary, for us to speak for ourselves. We have done so much, and still have so much more to do.
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I think this is significant enough to reblog since plural history is important for any kind of plural! Not to mention that it proves to sysmeds that non-disordered Plurality has been around for decades now. So yeah, learning about plural history and activism is great.
2-29-2020
Sysmeds don't belong in the plural community.
Its not your place to say if someone has a valid system are not. If you are not them or not in their system then you have no fucking clue. Anti-endos are dumb as shit and can and should fuck off this planet.
Sysmeds are legit the same to the plurality community as transmeds are to the transgender community. Its pretty much vomit inducing.
Lmao lets get up a plurality equivalent of 'tucute'"
Honestly way to go sysmedicalists for taking a positive community and making it toxic and gross. Do you want a cookie or something?