#alterisa.txt

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Transed my gender now I gotta update all the posts I used my old tag on

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Endogenic systems are not "playing pretend." They just exist. You do not have to have originated from trauma to be a real system.

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I'd like to take a moment and acknowledge traumagenic systems with unconventional trauma. The kinds of trauma that people don't include in their recovery posts, the kinds of trauma that go unacknowledged in mental health discussions, the kinds of trauma that people don't seem to realize can cause a system just like more well-known and acknowledged traumas.

To systems who formed due to financial trauma – I am sorry that you've had to endure the results of not having enough. You have a right to be upset at society for failing you, and it's understandable if you're bitter that those you depended on couldn't care for you, whether it was their fault or not. Your hurt is real and I hope you're able to get to a place in life where you feel stable and secure in your finances and resources.

To systems who formed due to medical trauma – I am sorry the medical system has hurt and/or failed you. You have a right to be upset at medical professionals who hurt you or treatments that worked but still left you traumatized. Your hurt is real, even if it came from a place that was supposed to heal and help, and I hope you can find a place or person that will follow through on the promise to do that.

To systems who formed due to academic trauma – I am sorry that you weren't able to receive the education you wanted or needed without pain. You have a right to be upset at this failure of the education system for not protecting its students. Your hurt is real and I hope you're able to foster a healthy relationship with learning outside whatever caused you pain.

To systems who formed due to religious trauma – I am sorry that something that is meant to be fulfilling hurt you in such a way. You have a right to be upset with those who weaponized religion to hurt you or put pressure on you that you weren't ready to receive or able to approach in a healthy way just yet. Your hurt is real and I hope you're able to find your own path in life with or without the religion that hurt you.

To systems who formed due to bullying/peer abuse – I am sorry you have had to endure someone else's wrath. You have a right to be upset with those who hurt you or didn't step in and stop those hurting you. Your hurt is real and I hope you're able to find peace away from your tormentors with people who will always support you.

To systems who formed due to trauma from changes such as parents divorcing, moving, etc. – I am sorry that these things uprooted you. You have a right to be upset at these drastic changes, even bitter at those who caused them or who didn't support you during/after them. Your hurt is real and I hope one day you find the stability you need in life, with the ability to face natural change without worry or stress.

To systems who formed due to parents or guardians not being purposefully neglectful or abusive, but still falling short – I am sorry you didn't receive the support you needed. You have a right to be upset that you weren't given what you needed, even if they tried their best or met your other needs. Your hurt is real and I hope one day you find a support structure that's able to help you fully and completely.

And to systems who haven't formed because of these things but still endured these traumas, I hope you're able to find happiness and recovery, however that may look for you.

Just because these things aren't "as bad" as they could have been doesn't mean they didn't hurt you. Please give yourselves kindness where needed, and remember that your pain is/was real, no matter what caused it and no matter what others say.

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Disclaimer banners for plural related posts!

Have you ever felt the need to put incredibly specific and/or tiring disclaimers on your system related posts because you just know someone's going to misinterpret what you say to hell and back? The same is true for us! So, we decided to make these banners that you can put at the end of your posts to let others know that, yes, you have considered whatever off-topic complaint they've pulled out of thin air, and no, it's not relevant to your post.

All banners have been given an image description in their alt texts, but under the cut are copies of these IDs so that you can just copy and paste them [into alt text] if you plan to use these yourself.

We hope these are useful for other systems! Free to use without credit – and if you have any ideas for more, send them our way! We'd be happy to make more disclaimers for those highly specific system moods/posts.

Image descriptions for each banner, going in order from first to last:

A banner colored in shades of brown. To the left is a section with a black and dark brown treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark brown outline that reads: This post is based on personal experiences of being a system, and is not meant to be reflective of all systems. The background of the banner is cream.

A banner colored in shades of red. To the left is a section with a black and dark red treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark red outline that reads: This post is focused on disordered experiences, but the poster supports non-disordered systems. The background of the banner is dull red.

A banner colored in shades of yellow. To the left is a section with a black and dark yellow treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark yellow outline that reads: This post is about stereotypes, not personal negative experiences with having a dissociative disorder or being a system. The background of the banner is light yellow.

A banner colored in shades of green. To the left is a section with a black and dark green treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark green outline that reads: This post is salty and/or a vent about plural experiences but is not meant to be taken at face value or as a dig at other systems. The background of the banner is mint green.

A banner colored in shades of cyan. To the left is a section with a black and cyan treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a cyan outline that reads: This post is sarcastic and/or a joke about plural experiences but is not meant to be taken at face value or as a dig at other systems. The background of the banner is pale turquoise.

A banner colored in shades of blue. To the left is a section with a black and dark blue treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark blue outline that reads: This post is focused on traumagenic system experiences, but the poster supports endogenic systems. The background of the banner is light blue.

A banner colored in shades of purple. To the left is a section with a black and dark purple treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark purple outline that reads: This post is focused on disordered traumagenic system experiences, but the poster supports non-disordered and endogenic systems. The background of the banner is lavender.

A banner colored in shades of pink. To the left is a section with a black and dark pink treble clef overlayed on top of faint gray plural rings. To the right is white text with a dark pink outline that reads: This post has general musings that are not meant to be discourse related. Do not use this post as a "gotcha" in discourse. The background of the banner is light pink.

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Shout out to all traumagenic systems whose trauma was caused by unintentional harm. With all the misconceptions about what trauma "counts as bad enough" to cause a traumagenic system, those whose trauma wasn't caused by purposeful abuse, neglect, etc often get forgotten, but that doesn't mean our pain wasn't traumatizing. Your hurt doesn't have to be someone's fault to be real. Your hurt doesn't have to be caused by someone trying to hurt you to be real. Your hurt doesn't have to fit the usual narrative of hurt to be real. Whatever trauma formed your system, it was bad enough, and you don't have to justify your pain to exist as a system.

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We've seen some weird standards about what makes a "real system" lately, so here's a reminder for those who need it.

Having lots of members does not make a system fake. You can have 50+, 100+, 1,000+, or even more system members and still be a real system. There's more to being a system than how many members you have.

Having introjects from new or popular media does not make a system fake. There is no limit to how popular something can be beyond which introjects are made impossible, nor a set time that something must have existed before an introject from it can form in a system. Just because a system member is introjected from something that's new and/or popular doesn't mean they're lying about who they are.

Having good communication with your fellow system members does not make a system fake. Often, good communication takes a lot of hard work (and thus it is ridiculous to say that something that took so much effort would invalidate someone), but even if it doesn't, your ability to communicate with someone you share a body with provides evidence that you are a system, not the opposite! If you're able to genuinely say, "My system members and I can communicate with each other," well, I'd say it's pretty difficult for you to be faking at that point.

Having mostly good experiences with being a system does not make a system fake. Being able to be happy and positive about being a system doesn't mean you never have struggles, it just means you're able to handle those struggles in a healthy way and work together like how most systems strive to. That's an accomplishment, not an indication of faking.

If anyone says any of these things make you or your system fake, fight them in a Denny's parking lot. None of these traits make any system fake just by being present [in a system], and systems who have these traits are just as real as any other system out there.

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As annoying as amnesia can be, I do like to find humor in how my brain went "You can't have trauma if you don't remember anything, ever." Thank you for the effort, bud, unfortunately that's not how this works.

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Do you ever just *accidentally gives a headmate a gender crisis by introducing them to the concept of being trans*