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[the-indigo-symphony]

(Probably Bad) Ways to Respond to "You're Not Acting Like Yourself"

A list for systems who aren't out yet

"Yeah, my theatre teacher gave out a pretty weird improv assignment this week."

"Wow, you humans are more perceptive than I thought! I'll have to tell the mothership of this."

"The self is a social construct."

"I sold my soul and this is my way of coping with the emptiness I now feel."

"So you know those soulmate AUs where you swap bodies with your soulmate?"

"I got my brain software updated; it included some patches to my personality."

"It's my horoscope."

"It's practice for when I go undercover on my next spy mission."

"Haha, yeah." *leans into watch* "They're onto me."

"I'm actually (name)'s long lost twin."

"Thanks for noticing!"

"I'm under a curse. Can you help me break it?"

"It's my rebellious phase."

"Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage,' and I've decided to take that literally."

"Don't worry, I'll be done possessing (name) soon, I just have to try (food) first."

Feel free to add your own!

[crystallinecollective]

“No I’m not.”

”Aw, dammit, you caught me! I was filming a new youtube video called I Act Unlike Myself For 24 Hours Challenge.”

”Wow, those healing crystals must be doing wonders curing my mental illness then!”

”I sold my soul to Bezos just last week; it changed me, honestly.”

”Ah, sorry, the symbiote has been rowdy lately.”

”Shh, I’m busy absorbing the personality traits of my favorite movie characters into my personality.”

”That’s what your mom said to me last night.”

”I finally touched grass. I’m a changed person.”

“Maybe it’s that. Or maybe it’s Maybelline.”

[trekkienatural]

queer pride stuff to piss off the queerphobes and a link to where you can buy them

do not repost, share without credit, or remove my signatures. feel free to share the link to this post.

[multiplicity-positivity]

Welcome to Multiplicity Positivity!

This is an inclusive blog and welcoming to systems of all sorts! Anyone who experiences multiplicity or feels cheered by our posts is welcome to interact. There are lots of plural positivity blogs out there, but we want to contribute to that warmth and joy!

This blog is run by Margo, Ghost, Ralsei, and a few other headmates from the @dreamlandsystem ! We are part of a disabled, autistic, very queer and trans osdd-1b system. We aren’t shy - feel free to reach out for kind words, resources, support, or anything, really!

DNI: This is a safe space for all who experience multiplicity! That being said, there is no room for hate here. If you want to interact in order to spread exclusionist or bigoted rhetoric, this is not the space for you!

Could we get a boost perhaps? Let us know if this isn’t welcome and we’d be more than happy to untag!

@plural-egg-culture-is @plural-culture-is @systemgooglesearches @systempositive @pluralposi @introject-culture-is @funnier-as-a-fictive @funnier-as-a-system

[systemgooglesearches]

why do i keep referring to myself as we

did i just put another person in my head

how did i just put another person in my head

why do i talk to myself like im two people

is it normal to have imaginary friends in high school knowing that they're not real

picrew .me

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[queerautism]

Wait what do sysmeds say rhat is transphobic/terf retoric? /genq im trying to educate myself

Can someone else take this one i am so tired

[delgado-master]

They don’t necessarily say transphobic rhetoric, per se, but their arguments do mirror the arguments of transmeds.

[aster-fox]

“You can’t [identify as a thing] without [negative prerequisite] because the two are intrinsically connected and if you say otherwise you’re faking.”

Transmeds:

“You can’t be trans without dysphoria because being dysphoric IS being trans, and dysphoria is a mental disorder! So being trans is a mental disorder!”

Sysmeds:

“You can’t be a system without trauma because DID and OSDD are only caused by trauma, and are the only ways to be a system! You can’t have DID or OSDD without trauma therefore you can’t be a system without a disorder!”

It’s the conflation of a normal state of existing (being trans and being plural) and disorders related to them (gender dysphoria and dissociative disorders respectively).

[theoliviaset]

They will further go on to embody more similarities:

Transmed: “You aren’t trans, you’re just talking about your personality.”

Sysmed: “You arent plural, you’re just talking about your mood.”

Transmed: “You need to transition if you’re really trans.”

Sysmed: “You need to submit to psychiatric treatment if you’re really a system.”

Transmed: “Brain scans prove that binary trans people exist, therefore non-binary trans people can’t exist.”

Sysmeds: “Brain scans prove that traumagenic systems have something going on, therefore non-traumagenic can’t exist.”

Transmed: “Nobody wants to be trans. Its hell and anyone who enjoys being trans is faking.”

Sysmed: “Being a system is hell. Nobody wants to be a system, and anyone who says otherwise is faking.”

Transmed: “If you’re not dysphoric, you’re probably just gay.”

Sysmed: “If you didn’t have trauma before a certain age, you must be mistaking your symptoms for something else.”

Transmed: “These people are claiming to be trans for clout.”

Sysmed: “These people are claiming to be plural for clout.”

Transmed: “Fine, you’re not normally cis, but what you’re experience is nothing like what I experience with my gender dysphoria. Therefore you shouldn’t call yourself trans. Find your own words.” (Ignoring the amount of enbi folks who have been a part of the trans struggle since the beginning.)

Sysmed: “Fine, you’re not a normal singlet, but what you’re experiencing is nothing like what I experience with my trauma and system distress. Therefore you shouldn’t call yourself a system. Find your own words.” (Ignoring the fact that endogenic and non-disordered systems have been a part of the plural struggle since the beginning.)

Transmed: “Every trans person is dysphoric. Even if you think that you’re not dysphoric you have to be by definition. How could anyone live in a body that doesn’t match their gender without dysphoria?”

Sysmed: “Every system is distressed. Even if you think you’re not distressed you have to be by definition. How could anyone live in a body with other people and not be distressed over it?”

Trans/Sysmed: “People won’t accept us because of those weirdos.”

The similarities between sysmeds and transmeds is vast. I think there are a lot of sysmeds get all bent out of shape about that label because they don’t realize how much their position mirrors transmeds. We’ve noticed quite a few of these sysmeds are young. I get the feeling they just imagine transmeds as this boogeyman that’s super easy to spot and obviously absurd.

But I remember it wasn’t that long ago that transmeds were everywhere we looked. They were mainstream as far as trans issues. Their positions were reasonable and inviting. They offered a way to be trans without questioning the patriarchy. They provided someone to kick down on like had been done to us so frequently already. They offered explanations that justified our existence to a society whose acceptance was always conditional.

So yeah, sysmeds copy the shit out of transmeds, whether they like to or not.

[aster-fox]

Fine, you’re not a normal singlet, but what you’re experiencing is nothing like what I experience with my trauma and system distress. Therefore you shouldn’t call yourself a system.

The very first server we were in that was open to systems and had information about them was a pro-MOGAI, anti-transmed server where the only systems allowed were sysmeds with DID (they said they allowed OSDD too but the way they talked about “fakers” using literal OSDD symptoms proves they didn’t actually care about OSDD systems).

We were a plegg at the time and had only suspected our plurality once or twice, but after joining this server and following the systems in it we began to notice a lot of similarities. Not just in the “multiple personality states” aspect but in many of the scary symptoms such as panic without a clear cause, sui ideation, flashbacks… like, it all just matched up with us!

But the second we started saying we think we might be a system, they said we couldn’t be. We (I’m pretty sure it was Eren) wanted to talk more about our experiences using examples so we talked about the headmate we actually actively talked to at the time (without knowing we were plural 🤡) who happened to be a fictive. The sysmeds in the server doubled down due to the fact that he was a fictive and hadn’t fronted yet. When we talked about a large instance of amnesia and people telling us what we had done during that time, we were then told almost verbatim what I block-quoted at the top.

They’ll do anything to keep people from figuring out they’re plural, full-stop. They don’t want to help people find the right resources, they want to gatekeep. The above quotes really help illustrate that!

[cursedhungersystem]

shoutout to all the systems who get super blurry when they’re upset and can’t tell who they are anymore

shoutout to all the systems whose internal communication shuts down/worsens when they get upset and/or they get cut off from their caretakers/caregivers

shoutout to all the system members who get front-locked while they’re upset and can’t switch out for a reprieve

shoutout to all the systems who have the above problems and it makes them feel fake because said problems make them feel temporarily not-plural for a while (you’re not faking, I promise, your system hasn’t gone anywhere)

love you all & i hope your pain passes swiftly

[whovianbi]

@spacepunk-sys

[spacepunk-sys]

literally us

[startrekpride]

Gay Stamets x Culber icons for anon!

Like or reblog if saved :)

[quailfence]

[Image description: Nine icons of Hugh Culber and Paul Stamets from Star Trek: Discover against the six-stripe rainbow flag. The first row of three icons has a simple rainbow flag background and a shadow behind them, the second row has a shadow behind them and a slightly transparent square behind them, the last row has Starfleet badges against the flag, which look as though they are shadows. End description].

Plain text: Like or reblog if saved (smile emoticon). End plain text.

@startrekdescribed

[spacepunk-sys]

im posting this here bc idk how our main would react but uh. very interesting how i get loads of notes for star trek gifs and fanart but i post one thing about giving artefacts back to their place of origin and the only note i get is from someone we've known for two years

[spacepunk-sys]

just saying, i went and reblogged some trek posts right after this. guess who got notes immediately

[spacepunk-sys]

im posting this here bc idk how our main would react but uh. very interesting how i get loads of notes for star trek gifs and fanart but i post one thing about giving artefacts back to their place of origin and the only note i get is from someone we've known for two years

[trekkienatural]

sometimes spock takes control of my gay little brain and all i think for the next hour is “it is entirely logical that kirk in amok time is the hottest being ever.”

[spacepunk-sys]

i made the mistake of looking at my tag on tumblr. never again

[spacepunk-sys]

*papspaps*

Tinie

Beby

Smol

yeeee

[spacepunk-sys]

Littols. Smols. Bebs. Tinees

Eli is v good boy

Blur is v good beby

Sunny is tiny sunshine baby

Spot is good lil kitty

Jelly and raven are good kiddos and deserve much hug

All the kiddos <33333

yesssss yee

[yourbigsisnissi]

Before you get mad at your partner for not doing what you expect them to do, Stop and ask yourself “have I ever communicated to them that I have this expectation?” If you have not, it’s unfair to expect them to read your mind.

So many arguments are saved by just opening your mouth and saying “hey hun, in the future can you….” Whether its articulating how you like to be loved, supported, or communicated with, you have to open your mouth. Your soul mate (IMO) isn’t the person that just always knows what you need when you need it without you telling them. Your soul mate is the person who hears your needs and thinks “I have no problem doing that because I love this person with my whole heart”

So check your attitude and open your mouth. Closed mouths don’t get fed.

[amygdalae]

Star trek episodes where a character gets introduced and one of the main ones falls in love with them are very funny because at the end its like. Uh oh the love of my life just got blasted exploded in space!!! Ah well anyways. Space, the final frontier, these are the

[literaphobe]

*accidentally realizes i’ve been overusing a random phrase a lot* where did this come from. who did this to me

[pluralposi]

Star Theory; visualizing dissociation

If you're active in mental health and disability communities, you've likely heard of spoon theory, which visualizes the day-to-day life of those with chronic disabilities, and how much energy they have doing different tasks.

In 2019, the term star theory was coined by the since moved Tumblr blog espersgalaxy; I was given permission to recreate and better explain this theory. Star theory is based off of the same basic principles as spoon theory. However, star theory is specifically tailored towards those who experience any form of dissociation.

Unlike the spoon theory, the more 'stars' you have, the more dissociated you are. This is in contrast with spoon theory, which visualizes less energy through less spoons. The concept of stars comes from a common trope in cartoons and other mediums where characters who have become "dizzy" or "zoned out" have stars swirling around their head.

As an example, someone with dissociative identity disorder may start the day with anywhere from zero to five stars. Someone may wake up and already feel dissociative, and so they may already be at a 2. Throughout the day, certain triggers, stimuli, and situations may either lessen or gain more stars.

If someone has no stars, then they are completely non-dissociative, and if someone has 5, they are completely dissociative to the point where they may be unable to function, think properly, or know who they are. This limit may be raised to ten stars if someone feels they need more specification, such as from zero to ten.

Example of a 'star meter' for someone using the theory:

0 stars: Non-dissociative. No issues at this time.

1 star: Very mild, likely not noticeable. Little to no issue.

2 stars: Mild. Possible issues with identity, memory, etc.

3 stars: Moderate, noticeable. Issues will likely begin to show up.

4 stars: Stronger dissociation. Issues with time, memory, etc.

5 stars: Very strong dissociation. May not know who they are, where they are, the time, etc., may not be able to function.

Narrative example: John has BPD, which causes dissociation. Yesterday, he woke up with 2 stars. When he went to the store, he saw something that greatly upset him, causing him to gain 2 stars. He had a difficult time returning home, but once he did he grounded himself, losing 3 stars. By the time he went to bed for the night, he had one star. However, the next day, he woke up with 4 stars due to a nightmare.

TLDR: Star theory is a similar theory to spoon theory and is for people who experience any kind of dissociation. The more "stars" a person has, the more dissociated they are.