#disordered plurality

[mindwrms]

if you need someone to tell you this let us be that person: yes you can still be a system if your parts are just different versions of you. yes you can be a system if you have trouble communicating or cant communicate at all with your parts. yes you can still be a system if your parts dont have names of faces, but are just feelings and states of being. yes you can still be a system with no set host, or frequent fronter(s). yes you can still be a system without being able to tell who’s fronting at all times or if youve switched. plurality looks different for everyone, dont just assume that because your plurality doesn’t look like someone else’s that what your experiencing isn’t plurality.

[interstellarsystem]

March 5th is DID Awareness Day (also known as Multiple Personality Day, for those who prefer that term). Wishing all disordered systems the very best. We're a community of many, many diverse experiences, and that should be celebrated. Regardless of how you got here, how your systam makes you feel, and what path you plan to take in life--you're here. You're alive. And that's wonderful.

That includes:

Disordered systems of any origin.

Disordered systems who do not wish to fuse.

Disordered systems who wish to fuse.

Disordered systems who have fused, partially or fully.

Disordered systems who are public about being a system.

Disordered systems who have told no one, or very few people.

Disordered systems who are diagnosed, and those who are not.

Disordered systems who enjoy their plurality, and those who struggle with it.

Disordered systems with introjects of any kind.

Disordered systems with only a few members, and those with 100s.

Disordered systems with spiritual beliefs about their system, and those with psychological beliefs.

[moonpool-system]

Always funky how some system members can take days and days to form, and even then still not be fully solid, but others will snap into place almost instantly. Not even different origins either, both traumagenic - it's interesting to observe the variation even within a singular system

[061325]

so how does one recognize depersonalization making you feel like a completely different person vs actual different parts when you are plural?

[the-coillearnach-syscourse]

This is not syscourse persay (i am pro endo) but it says nowhere in the DSM an age limit of when trauma happens for DID or OSDD to form. So i dont understand when people comment like, you cant possibly have that bc you got that trauma at _______ age. Which even if it was, brains are very complicated. What if they are intellectually disabled or have other mental disabilities? Surely that wuld affect how DID or OSDD forms. There are also cases of DID and or OSDD forming in adulthood, so it isnt imposible. Im just tired of people gatekeeping identities when it wasnt a requirement in the first place

Hihi!

We had to reread the DSM-5 for this one (page 331 of the DSM, page 726 of the PDF)!

But, yes! You are actually correct on this one, the DSM does not specify an age cutoff and if you'd like to check for yourself, read it (linked above, it's free)! We've heard whispers of the idea that other disorders such as ASD can affect the age a CDD develops at, given that neurodevelopmental disorders do in fact affect your brain development! It's in the name! We've just never seen any concrete studies on it, if anybody has one we'd love to read it!

Below the cut we'll insert some screenshots we gathered that support what you're saying!

-Kandi (🌈)

Note the use of the word "often" in the last screenshot, often ≠ always!

Plus the full diagnostic criteria, which never mentions age.

[chronicallyleggless]

‘This ___ is from the moon’ userboxes! (Pack)

[floofyflooftheallmighty]

Its disablity pride month!!!! Shout out to all the disordered systems who struggle with community due to fakeclaiming, cringe culture, and syscourse!

Your valid, and you deserve a community that helps you heal and recover from your trauma <3

[unique-plural]

Our amnesia and memory is sharing is really weird. We're diagnosed with DID but we don't fully fit the amnesia description in the way that every member has their own memory pool.

We have what we call amnesia groups (or cohorts), where members within that group have shared and predictable amnesia/dissociation patterns. Switches between members of different groups consistently causes at least some degree of amnesia while switches between members of the same group most often doesn't.

Usually those amnesia patterns equal that all of them within the group have a shared memory pool, but stuff like trauma responses, memory-related abilities, and roles (mainly emotion or memory related) also tend to match up within them.

They also aren't like, super set in stone? There's these two cohorts we usually describe as one because they share a memory pool but have emotional amnesia, and they seem to be mentally stuck at different times (one in the 2010s & almost-adulthood, the other in the present & secondary school)

This isn't something we quite relate to since we're an OSDD system.

I actually don't know much about the innerworkings of DID systems, what the more common experiences are for DID, etc.

So I guess I learned something new today.

-Vintage (Syshost/Vintage Fictive /@enberneutral)