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[system-hottakes]

oh shit i burned myself writing this hot take ouch

if somebody self-dx's, then does more research and discovered they misdiagnosed, changing the the diagnosis on their social profiles, etc. doesn't warrant fakeclaiming. it just means they were uneducated before and tried to do what was best for them, to the best of their ability.

(context: i previously self-dx'ed as osdd-1b under the assumption that we do not get amnesia, but according to people around us, we do, and i'm looking into either a pdid, usdd, or osdd-1a diagnosis but im afraid of ppl fakeclaiming)

!!! Yeah! Sometimes people make mistakes and that's okay, though I would recommend you educate yourself as much as possible before self diagnosing even if you do that there's still a possibility of making a mistake

[antiendovents]

im so tired of being called abelist for not supporting endos :/

thats fair. It literally doesn't make sense to be called ableist for not supporting ableism. I don't get how people think this way tbh :p

[antimisinfo]

Alters can appear as a different skin colour to the body but they are not a different race.

" Alters may have a different perception of their appearance, for e.g., different hair or skin color, body shape " ((this is shortened down a little because theres a lot of other bullet points on the website))

" They may perceive themselves as having an age, gender, sexuality, appearance, source, or even species that may or may not match that of the system's actual body, and they may or may not be aware of these discrepancies. " ((I know this one doesn't mention skin colour exactly but you probably get the gist))

Despite being able to have a different skin colour to the body alters should not claim to be a different race, as race is not based purely on skin colour. Skin colour is a big part of it (and the most noticeable) but race is also based on cultural backgrounds and social factors

" Race divides human populations into groups often based on physical appearance, social factors and cultural backgrounds. "

Along with that claiming to be a race you are not apart of (e.g; a alter in a bodily Asian system claims to be black) can often lead to complicated scenarios where the alter in question tries to "act like their race" by using the n word, speaking over black voices and other things. ((All of which are obviously bad))

So TLDR : alters can appear as a different skin colour within headspace / in faceclaims but they cannot claim to be a different race.

((I fear I may have worded some of this wrong, so if I have please let me know.))

[antiendosystemterms]

btw the reason we haven't been making many new terms despite saying we'd focus on this blog is because we're currently working on a masterlist which we were meant to do months ago but we needed up getting distracted so now we have to try finish it :p

[system-hottakes]

no one should be judged or called ableist for wanting final fusion & fusion can happen naturally as you bring down amnesia barriers, even if you don’t intend for it to.

^^^ yeah. Final fusion is valid. Functional multiplicity is valid. Every form of healing is valid.

[system-hottakes]

Hot take(?)

Some alters need to be attached to their source to feel like they exist/actually have an identity.

We have a couple people like this, who feel like if they separated, they'd be erased. And demonizing that is a fucking dick move

yeah! A lot of our alters are very source attached, they can't really think of being anyone outside of their source identity and if anyone tries to force them to change for whatever reason they wont like the results (we'll block them! We don't listen to ableist people)

[system-hottakes]

Wait genuine question because we saw something in one of the previous asks-

Can alters not have disorders the body doesn't have?? I thought they could but maybe we're mistaking traits of the other disorders for the actual disorders since the body shows traits of a lot of disorders but doesn't have them all-

i already kind of answered this on @antimisinfo

But the short answer is no; disorders affect the whole brain so either the whole system has it or not. Alters can be more affected by disorders, show traits of disorders or have different presentations of disorders but they cannot have disorders the brain doesn't have