Symphony System Thoughts

Main is @enchantedpencilcomics. All systems are valid and medical diagnosis are not required to be plural (though we do have one). Blurry, minimal amnesia, around 20 members. Also AuDHD.

[enchantedpencilcomics]

We've been meaning to draw more autobiographical comics and I guess I finally got around to one

[gostle]

compare yourself only to your previous self

[symphony-system]

@funnier-as-a-system

[symphony-system]

Switching is like reverse deja vu

You’ve been here the whole time but you suddenly get this weird feeling like you don’t recognize it anymore

[symphony-system]

Weird tests we use to tell who’s in front

Imagine telling someone else a little bit about each of your systemmates. Who do you want to describe in first person? That’s you.

Look at your list of systemmates in Simply Plural or wherever you have a list. Who is it easy to imagine walking through the door behind you? Who do you struggle to imagine? That might be because that one is you.

Get everyone in co-con talking- take turns reciting lines of a poem, or play a word game like shiritori. When your turn comes up, where does your voice come from? Whoever comes from the center of your head is probably who’s in front.

[catnippackets]

for real once you realize that you can actually wear whatever you want and call yourself whatever name and pronouns you want and have whatever interests you want and be whatever gender you want your life gets so much better and more fun

[yellowpie]

[cosmicats-sys]

@funnier-as-a-system

[funnier-as-a-system]

[ID: a Tumblr tag that reads: #unlocking the character customization screen ./ End ID]

[zagreus]

9 out of 1 doctors recommend containing multitudes

[exqeriment-deactivated20220707]

@funnier-as-a-system

[symphony-system]

Whenever any alter is hyperfocusing and locked everyone else out of front

The rest of the system: Stop hyperfocusing!

That alter: I can't!!! I gotta feed the dopamine bees!!!!!

[symphony-system]

Ari: What if we came out as a system to our vocal instructor, any ideas how to approach the topic

Lael: "Dude, imma be honest, there's something I haven't told you... I'm a crazy person 😜"

Ari: ANYTHING but that

[symphony-system]

You’re not faking your system

Habits don’t change by accident, that’s the whole point of how habits work.

Sure, singlets have different personalities for different situations, but their gender, sexuality, favorite colors, etc, won’t change along with it.

If you made up your alters for attention, how come they’re thinking in first person inside your head where nobody else can hear them?

Denial is a totally natural part of the survival mechanism. Gatekeepers or other systemmates don’t want the host to know about the system until they’re ready. It’s a lot to take in.

You can’t fake a switch headache.

You can’t fake vertigo from height dysphoria/mis-match.

You can’t fake switching your dominant hand/leg/eye.

You can’t fake pesudomemories. Pseudomemories are just as real as “real” memories, under the hood. It’s all the same brain mechanism. They’re just as impactful.

It’s normal for alters to have a lot of things in common. You already share so much.

It’s normal for alters to have a lot of differences between them. It’s normal to have different races, animals, etc. The brain creates what it thinks it needs at the time.

It’s normal for alters to change and evolve, just like “real people”. 

It’s normal for alters to have a shallow or undeveloped personality, especially for fragments who don’t front much or only have very specialized roles.

It’s ok if you can’t tell who’s fronting right now.

If your voices sound super different in your head, but indistinguishable to other people, that’s ok. You share the same vocal cords, and you might have a shell alter acting as a filter.

Mood swings are one thing. If you’ve “always felt this way and can’t understand why you said you felt a different way earlier,” that’s something else.

Roleplaying with your systemmates in a fictional setting is a safe and healthy way to get to know them and to let them express themselves, especially when it isn’t safe for you to drop your external mask of pretending to be one person.

You don’t need to identify with everything on this list, or even with most of this list. Believe in yourself.

Please reblog and add your own!

[theyellowbrickroad]

i guess at this point i should just consider dating myself

[dragonfrost-system]

@funnier-as-a-system

[symphony-system]

so a lot happened