🫙 🍓 JamBerry System 🍓 🫙

System moments... (both /pos and /neg)

[sysstuff-moments]

Intro

Yo, we're the JamBerry System

Collectively He/They

Bodily an adult

Host is Jamie, his pronouns are he/him

We try to stay neutral on syscourse, but would prefer that endos do not interact with us, as this is a place for us to talk about our personal traumagentic experience ^^u

I'm Charlie, this intro is probably more of a placeholder but Jamie can make it fancy or whatever when he comes back since he's the one who likes doing that sort of stuff

Alters/Intros (not a full list)

Jamie

Jax

Charlie

Katzen

Clemont

Ulrich

March

[antleredarchivist]

Being a system is:

-Guy who represents feelings the system hasn’t ever accepted

-Guy who’s having the saddest feelings about his mother trying not to think too hard

-Guy who insists he’s not in a system when he fronts and is actively denying it in co con

-Guy playing solitaire

[systrusarbor]

Oh, my, I sure do find these tasks quite distressing and unfavorable! I sure do wish someone would lend me a helping hand in my time of need!

The humble brain:

[lustcannibalism]

"what was your childhood like?" idk I wasn't there

[sphagnum-system]

[multipleabyss]

system ask game for traumagenic systems!

reposted due to us deleting our previous sysblog <3

remember that you are free to decline any question if it feels too invasive, this is for fun and you are not forced to answer anything 🤍

I: basics

❤️ - what type of CDD do you have?

🧡 - are you medically recognised/diagnosed? if not, do you plan to? (no judgement either way!)

💛 - if you are comfortable sharing, what is your headcount? do you keep track of it?

💚 - do you have a high or low split tolerance?

💙 - do you switch frequently or do you go longer periods between switching?

💜 - does your system have introjects of any kind?

🩷 - do you have any subsystems?

II: alters

🎥 - who are your frequent fronters?

📼 - do you have any non-human alters? if yes, which species are the majority of them?

🎞️ - do the alters in your system use more medical coined roles or more community coined roles? or both/neither? do you find them useful?

📽️ - are the alters in your system more distinct or less distinct from each other?

📺 - do you make/buy gifts to other alters in the systems?

🎙️ - does the taste in music vary a lot between different alters?

📻 - does your system have any type of in system relationships? (familial, romantic, platonic etc.)

III: switching

☀️ - how much amnesia do you experience?

🌙 - do you experience black out amnesia?

⚡️ - what does switching feel like for you? does it vary between alters?

☄️ - do you experience quick switches or does it take longer to switch usually?

🌈 - do you get frontstuck often? what do you do to try to get ‘un-stuck’?

☁️ - do you ever not notice you’ve switched, and suddenly realise that ‘you haven’t been you’ for a while?

💦 - can you switch ‘on command’ or is that something that is hard for your system? does it depend on the alter?

IV: headspace

🌱 - do you have a headspace? if yes, describe it! if no, do you want one?

🌿 - how easily accessed is your headspace?

☘️ - is there a place in your headspace where dormant alters go?

🌳 - do alters have their own rooms/areas in your headspace?

🌵 - is your headspace big, or smaller? is it complex/less complex?

🍃 - do you have specific alters that cannot access headspace at all?

🪴 - did you have to build your headspace over time, or was it just there?

V: general

🍭 - how did you pick your system name?

🍪 - do you have a collective name/identity/orientation? if yes, how did your system make those decisions?

🍬 - what’s the funniest thing another alter has said to you? (internally or externally communicated)

🍫 - how does your system handle in system disagreements in general?

🧁 - is there anyone specific in your system you don’t get along with?

🍰 - are you ‘out’ as a system to anyone? (online friends/partners etc. count!)

🍦 - how good is your communication with the rest of the system? does it vary much between different alters?

🍡 - are different alters part of different subcultures? which ones? (we are!)

[syscultureis]

System Culture is realizing that DID has been watered down so much that some people (Even other systems.) see it as "My favs are in your head and I can talk to them!!" disorder and not a serious mental illness that can completely change a person.

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[gravestone-sys]

i swear. being a system is like.

"I think I'm gay.."

*four people gave this a Yeah!*

[the-chorus-of-voices-collective]

Both made by me ✨️✨️✨️ -Cain (he/him)

[ratinacoat-deactivated20260310]

Questions for systems: System names

I decided I'm going to do these types of posts now and then when I get curious how others think. If you have a CDD and want to answer these questions I'd love to read any comments, reblogs, or asks about them. No need to answer them all if some are too personal. There will be no judgement or argument, this is just to see what people have to say.

What inspired your system name?

Why do you use a system name instead of the host's/body's name?

Is the name an online alias or an actual name?

If you add system/collective to it, why do you add that rather than keeping it short? (ex. Rose system instead of just Rose)

Usually personal questions I ask are for people of all communities, endo or not, but this one is just for those with CDD's cause the reasoning is different when it's a disorder and not an identity or belief. I'm curious specifically about the reasoning for those with a disorder.

[sysstuff-moments]

1. Our system name is JamBerry, which is sort of inspired by our old host's name / the name we go by irl, Jamie. Shorten it to Jam, and then by adding Berry to it, it goes with the food theme + sounds like jamboree, sort of a play on us being a system

2. It's easier for friends who are aware of us being a system to call us by a collective name when talking about us, especially if we or they don't know who's fronting, to avoid confusion

3. It's just an online alias for us, though we do go by Jam irl sometimes

4. We only add the System part to it if we're in a community / server for systems, since we're pretty closed abt being a system other than close friends (+ this sideblog lol)

[sysstuff-moments]

We split someone the other day who's primarily role is to exercise, which would be fine and dandy, except I need it to be clear

This guy split at 1am

Got mad that he split

Went out at 1am and started running laps with no light around our property in nothing but a nightgown and tennis shoes

Went inside and did like 50something pushups and situps

Then tried to shower with a hose before deciding it was too cold and taking a bath

THEN DID THE PUSHUP/SITUPS AGAIN LIKE TWO DAYS LATER WHILE WE'RE STILL SORE...

(I can't even be mad, it's objectively kinda funny 😭 he just needs to chill out a bit about the intensity of his workout regime)

[syscultureis]

System culture is having a strange source and being very concerned but also happy ish when you see a source mate

.

[incognitopolls]

Regardless of whether you like your body or not, do you feel like it BELONGS to you?

Yes, and I've never felt otherwise

Yes, but I have felt otherwise

Mostly yes, but it varies

Mostly no, but it varies

No, but I have felt otherwise before

No, and I've never felt otherwise

No, because I share it with others (plural, etc)

I don't know/other nuanced answer

Voting ended onOct 31, 2024

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[rimonoroni]

“i’m not the same as who i was before [x] thing happened to me” does it help to know that you would not have stayed that person regardless

[rimonoroni]

added a graphic to elaborate on the specifics of what i’m trying to say.

basically, everybody changes all the time for all sorts of reasons. don’t let the myth of static selfhood trick you into thinking you’re unworthy. the only way to go is forward, which would be the case no matter what, and that’s okay.

[thattheater-kid]

Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

[sysstuff-moments]

Belated Introduction

I just realized that despite the fact I am one of the more frequent posters here, I have never actually made an introduction.

My name is March, and my pronouns are He/Him or They/Them. I am 21, and our main academic alter.

I enjoy studying and taking notes, as well as analyzing classic literature.

I am a fictive, but I personally have disconnected just about completely from my source. If you can guess it, I'll give you (1) thumbs up emoji (Joking).

[sysstuff-moments]

I love college

I get to be pretentious and write about topics that interest me (or I can at least pretend that interest me), and I am guaranteed to get a reply. I can get a good grade in being pretentious; it's my special talent. (Joking. Partially, at least.)

- March