Seaside Wanderers ☆ plural ☆ other info + alter intros in pinned! ☆ disabled ☆ 25 years old, Italian ☆ they/them ☆ non binary, aroace spec, queer ☆ started HRT 04/25/2025 ☆ always try to be nice and never fail to be kind ☆ syscourse is wack. you can do what you want forever. no DNI, endogenic friendly
note: changed the name from @/seasidewanderers to @/seascourse-sidecourse as this is a syscourse blog now pretty much. rip
updated 28/05/2026 (European time jumpscare)
we've had this blog for... around 6 years now, and this is our newest, coolest, most awesome introduction of us as a system and system members!
we're the Seaside Wanderers, we're plural. please call us alters, headmates, or system members! we are mixed origins, mostly traumagenic, if that ever matters, and disordered and polyfragmented
we go by Elia, Seaside, or the current fronter's name (pick a name, get one free!)
25 years old and Italian
infamous Maternity Blackwood asker
no DNI, feel free to interact, syscourse is wack, endogenic friendly.
the meaning of our system name comes from the Lord Of The Rings Online; one of the titles you can get for your character is "Seaside Wanderer". go play LOTRO. it's nice, relaxing, has a great community, and it's free. awesome
we'll tag by layer/subsystem instead of individual alters for now. tags are as follow, we'll update if someone else wants to participate in this blog:
#waterfront
#a tangled web
#echoes of eternity
what we believe in system-wise, syscourse, and other things as such:
CDDs are trauma-based
[Complex Dissociative Disorders, a term that encapsulates all trauma-based and dissociative disorders such as DID, OSDD-1, P-DID, and those cases of UDD that cause systemhood]
we support informed and researched self-diagnosis/self-suspicion, and community support in the cases when one cannot access formal diagnosis and treatment
other personal info here:
gendervoid, non binary transneumasc, queer; started HRT on 04/25/2025; we use they/them [eng] and masculine or neutral pronouns ending in -x [ita]
Celtic Pagan and Druidic, as well as Roman Pagan. very community-based and nature religion-based
collective interests include but are not limited to:
Pathfinder 1e
MTG (especially the lore and EDH, we consider ourselves Vorthos players). talk to us about Phyrexia!
Genshin Impact
Honkai: Star Rail
Dorohedoro
Doctor Who
we also like to draw, read, sing and write, though only some of us are good at some of them, and we don't consider ourselves a particularly good artist, singer, or writer
individual introductions for us alters (divided by layer)
this won't be all of us, just those more likely to participate in this blog. updating this a few at a time so we don't get overwhelmed
Echoes
Auros, ageless, he/it or any; fictive of Wanderer (Genshin Impact). avenger, black sheep
Flins, 28, he/they/it; fictive of Flins (Genshin Impact), elaborated fragment. democratically elected to Dishes TM. likes organising. apathy holder, night guard, protector
Kae, 21, he/they; fictive of Kazuha (Genshin Impact). here to vibe and relax. caretaker, destressor
Luke, early/mid 20s, he/him; fictive of Childe (Genshin Impact). whatever is going on with him. likes being active and hates being sedentary. professional ragebaiter. left handed and holds things in reverse grip. aviator, confidence holder, socialiser, thrill seeker
Waterfront
Oscar, local old man, he/they + ae/aer; OCtive (homebrew Pathfinder 1e campaign), half-elf sylph. local gay guy deals with feelings through alcohol. married to Celain. trauma-related role, persecutor
Celain (pronounced Colin), immortal, he/they; OCtive (same as Oscar), elf angel. follows Pathfinder's fictional pantheon. married to Oscar. trauma-related role, protector/caretaker and religious/spiritual alter
Finnegan, 16-19, he/they/it; OCtive (homebrew Pathfinder 1e campaign), kitsune. enjoys talking about Pathfinder 1e and sulking and suffering. has his own subsystem which is mostly him at different ages. trauma-related role, persecutor
Kir, 18, he/they/it; OCtive (Pathfinder 1e Wrath Of The Righteous campaign), android. doesn't really enjoy or hate anything. apathy holder, trauma-related role, persecutor
"the only valid form of pluralphobia is towards pwCDDs" that isn't how bigotry works. Whether or not I have a CDD if I tell someone that I share a body with a bunch of other people they're not going to stop to ask my diagnosis status before they call me a freak or crazy.
The ableism existed before the diagnosis did, gang. Ableism isn't strictly confined to the DSM, it's based on what society sees as 'crazy', which often has nothing to do with actual mental illness.
Question for the anti-endos, what would it actually take for you to believe that endos are a real phenomenon? Medical confirmation? Finding a mechanism behind it? Brain scans? Nothing? Please tell me in the comments or reblogs, I am very curious about what people think on this, especially as a former anti-endo myself. And if the people want a poll for better visualization of results, I can follow this up with a poll with what I hear from people about it
(As a note, this is not coming from a place of judgement, I genuinely don’t care if you hate endos with all of your being and nothing could convince you, that’s your prerogative and you’re allowed to hold that position)
amazing how alienating the CDD tags are if you don't viscerally hate endos. you go there to find someone to relate to and connect through shared difficulties and they're like "if you talk to me about the disorder we both have you're harassing me because you don't think endos should kill themselves" idk how to tell you that you should care for other people
sorry buddy, we're taking away your disability. you can't have a CDD and pro-endo / endo-neutral stance at the same time, this is not how the rules work. have fun being abled now !
"just block the tags" in response to people saying to keep how much you hate endos to anti endo tags and not CDD tags is not viable. sure I'll block the tags. now 95% of the #cdd system tag is blank. great job everyone another tag that's unusable for pwCDDs who aren't anti endo, but you're certainly making it an awesome community for CDD systems.
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).
This man has been brought up in syscourse before. Truthfully we did not know of his existence prior to this, but upon learning of his supposed significance in Endogenic communities, I took the liberty of actually researching him. I was not able to find much about him, as it seems he is very much disregarded. My main sources of information were wikipedia and a single interview, I will link the pages at the end.
Who is Colin Ross?
Colin A. Ross, born July 14, 1950, is a Canadian psychiatrist, and was once the president of the International Society for the Stufy of Trauma and Dissociation. While this may make him sound like a respectable man, this is not the case.
His "controversies" (him being insane)
Colin Ross was judged heavily for his methods of treating patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder, which included recovering memories via hypnosis of Satanic ritual abuse.
This actually caused multiple patients to develop fake memories of Satanic abuse, to believe they had been impregnated by aliens, or other various paranormal things. Ross has since faced lawsuits for Medical Malpractice for these exact reasons.
He was seen appearing in a scientology video.
He also wrote on a conspiracy theory involving the CIA deliberately creating DID.
He also believed that a system created without any form of trauma was possible, hence why he is regarded as useful in Pro-Endo discussions.
However, forgive my bias here, I would not trust a man who claimed he could basically shoot beams of energy from his eyes with any knowledge of a mental illness.
I am not making that up. In 2008, Ross applied for the James Randi Educational Foundation's One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, claiming that energy from his eyes could cause a speaker to sound a tone, no other form of input needed.
In 2010, he doubled down. He published experimental data that he claimed supported his hypothesis that the eyes can emit energy that can be captured and measured. He also claimed that his way of capturing this supposed energy was via a biofeedback machine attached to his laptop, and the laptop to an eye blink. He still claimed he could send energy beams out of his eyes and was working on modifying the software to ignore an eye blink. His theory has not been tested by the JREF.
Conclusion
To simply put it, this man is not someone to credit for anything of value. He has supported conspiracy theories and has caused more harm to systems under his care, and has not shown much, if any, remores for the systems he has harmed with his malpractice.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_A._Ross
(Information gathered by Static and Verlaine, mostly presented by Verlaine.)
Hi, professionally diagnosed traumagenic DID system with PTSD and CPTSD here.
Yes, totally, one of the most internationally renowned DID researchers, and a major reason why the dissociative disorders are recognised as real disorders cased by significant trauma today, and part of the reason why victims of child abuse aren't instantly disregarded in clinical settings, and part of the reason assessments for dissociative disorders exist at all - is "insane"
Because he.. ran a weird study for a paranormal scientific event, meant for studies that are weird.
If you actually believe the Gray Faction, the False Memory Syndrome, this horrible trauma denial that has no clinical backing whatsoever (we have personal experience with this, as we had to go into our country's legal system and discuss it with lawyers, which we're happy to provide proof of, it's a good old 100 page long court record, quite a bit more than a wikipedia article), then the only thing you are is so horrifically ableist that you believe childhood trauma and dissociative disorders do not exist at all. Because that's what you're referencing here.
The people that you are referencing utterly despise you, and do not believe you exist.
Oh no. A therapist used hypnosis on DID patients. A type of therapy that does have quite a lot of research around how well it works for survivors of complex childhood trauma.
Oh no. He had medical malpractice lawsuits. Did you know almost every single clinician has to deal with lawsuits at one point or another? He had one lawsuit (he took part in others, but wasn't the subject.) It was dismissed. Unlike Onno van der Hart's abuse case, one of the authors of the current Theory of Structural Dissociation, who lost his license because he actually did abuse his patients.
Oh no. He appeared in a Scientology video. An organisation that, while still horrific, has actually done a tiny bit of good by bringing awareness to psychiatric abuse, even if for the wrong reasons. (You're also going to need to be a lot more specific than "he appeared in a video", lol)
Oh no. Cult abuse exists. Military experiments exist. Our wife's entire family is still affected by the chemicals they were forced to work with during WW1 and WW2 and Vietnam and so many others, leading to lifelong chronic disabilities. Ever heard of torture? Dissociative protective responses? Brainwashing? Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Yes, programmed responses happen, often under military and government guidance for various reasons. There's a lot more research on it than Ross', not to mention the amount of proof that governments actually tend to do some pretty awful shit.
Did you actually read what he said about endos? That non-traumagenic parts can exist? The same thing that Internal Family Systems uses? That appears throughout history under various different names in the Multiple Selves theory? Something that has a hell of a lot more supporting research on it than False Memory Syndrome?
^ By the way, Dr. Richard Loewenstein said similar. He's the head of the dissociative disorder group in the DSM-V-TR, and helped write the guidelines for treating DID, and did a multitude of other extremely important DID research
Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of MD School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. He founded and from 198
And yes. Ross had a scientific theory. He engaged in a scientific study. His scientific study supported his scientific findings. It was for a scientific paranormal challenge where your entry was meant to be 'insane' (oh hey, more ableism from you). You REALLY need to read more than just Wikipedia.
It sounds stupid. And nobody's saying his perfect. But the only people agreeing with you also happen to hate everything about you.
What are you expecting to find, him running an Instagram? No, and you won't with most older clinicians. They're more interested in studying and researching and doing their jobs. They already have a reputation. They don't need social media.
But he's done a hell of a lot more than "wikipedia" and a "single interview" and previously being head of the ISSTD. The literal first result when you google his name shows more than that.
And hey, here's his research,
Colin ROSS | Cited by 13,679 | | Read 316 publications | Contact Colin ROSS
You can even contact him yourself if you like, to tell him about your opinion of him
Your post is bullshit. What you're doing is denying the research that proves DID exists. What you're doing is siding with those who actually do abuse people, who cause the trauma that develops DID.
If you want to keep saying that DID doesn't come from trauma, then please, keep going.
Horrible job at being a sysmed, you're supporting exactly what you're claiming to be against. The post you made just before this one says DID does only form from trauma. Unless you're both ableist and a hypocrite, you can't believe both.
sometimes the "everyone else but me is too obsessed with syscourse" crowd comes back. my guy I'm obsessed with MTG. I would leave my job if MTG loredumping was a viable source of income. I would drop everything right the fuck now to host a TED talk about phyrexia. I would go into the woods at midnight when there is obviously a serial killer if I'm promised a Sorin Markov planeswalker foil card. it doesn't even need to be in mint condition it costs like 20 euros. it's not even a SGD one ring
amazing to see the "pro endos give reddit as a source!!" again. guys gals and non binary pals. "reddit" is not a source the same way "tumblr" is not a source. however, and it may be shocking to some of you I know, dedicated subreddits or tumblr posts or facebook groups or whatever can become sources when professionals post there and start a study. you know the fMRI study in r/Tulpas? yea. that was a study by professionals who happened to look for people who self identified as tulpas/tulpamancers for their study, and what better place than a dedicated subreddit. should they have posted a public competition at their uni instead? call random people asking if they perchance identify as tulpamancers?
what would have satisfied you?
it's like saying that "tumblr is not a source" when people link to blogs of famous people. idk if I link to the blog of Mark Rosewater for something MTG related and tell you to ask him directly, is suddenly tumblr not a source for MTG? he's literally the guy.
yea yea MTG is not psychology. you know what I'm trying to say here. discrediting any given source because "this is not a valid source" is just proof by assertion and circular reasoning. reddit is not a source because reddit is not a source. you know.
you can find Tanya Lurhmann and Michael Lifshitz on reddit. you can email them ig. yes they're scholars and professionals. yes they're also people who probably have an Internet connection. shocking
you (struggling, going through a lot): yeah i think i might have DID and its just been a whole lot for me and im so stressed out any help at all would be nice
system community: see i understand that, but what's astronomically more important is whether or not endogenic systems are real!
the fact that a whole lot of anti endos are against both endogenics and endogenics supporters bother me bc you do realise endo supporters who aren't endogenic probably have a CDD, or are in another way traumagenic multiple yes? just say you only support CDD systems who agree with you and go
