As a system gatekeeper endos are just so silly to me :P Like yeah okay be wrong on purpose buddy! These people really are trying to twist everything to make it seem like FULLY separated and completely independent parts that conveniently work exactly like complex dissociative disorders can happen without trauma and for no reason to occur aside from just because. Because obviously your brain is not gonna split itself to such a degree without a GOOD reason for it especially when it's not gonna do that unless it's actually necessary
I can't believe this has to be said but sub personalities are not alters 😑 neither are imaginary friends or stuff like hallucinations, these are experiences that DO happen and are a thing but they are not the same experience as having alters. Neither are spiritual experiences (seriously we should NOT put spiritual experiences and medical experiences under the same umbrella)
The thing that bothers me the most is that they try to encompass all these vastly different experiences under the same name and categories when they are all so many different things that work differently and should definitely have each a different name. ALL WHILE APPROPIATING CDD EXPERIENCES, SPREADING MISINFORMATION, SHITTING ON SYSTEMS AND SILENCING US FOR CALLING THAT SHIT OUT. AND DON'T EVEN LET ME GET STARTED ON THAT EVIL ASS DEMEDICALIZATIOM SHIT
Listen. If people made a thing about like imaginary friends and explicitly stated that it's like. Imaginary friends, i would be like hell yeah boss as long as it's harmless, seriously if someone as a singlet comes up to me saying they have imaginary friends, I'd be like, hell yes dude. Whatever. Who cares. I'm a talking flower. You do you.
I'm very iffy with polyminds but AT LEAST some the polymind guys do claim to not be systems and some of the singlets acknowledge that they are singlets. But some of them do really have their "minds" act a whole lot like alters with their roles and some terminology that mirrors those from cdds (which makes me think okay maaaaayyyybe some of these might actually be undiscovered cdds but i still do believe system experiences should be separated from these other things ykwim)
And not to mention other dissociative disorders that are not COMPLEX dissociative disorders . Which. Heeeyy let's not encourage people to dissociate themselves further to see if they can split alters that's seriously so harmful. Side eyes at the general direction of bpdgenic mfs
And this entire rant only encompasses people who believe you can have alters without DID. Don't even let me get started on the evil ass "endogenic DID" shit from the past. WHICH IS A THING. I am not gonna accept anyone claiming that #some endos are not claiming to have CDDs I REMEMBER THAT SHIT CLEARLY. The evil ass lancers pavilion shit really does still stick around i swear to myself. If someone claims they can have a cdd without trauma and magically start dissociating from an early age because of the power of friendship that's when i know to no engage because holy shit LOOLLLL I'm not trying to reason with that
Flowey (she/they)
(Dropping my name and pronouns here because who's gonna know who i am. Who cares. Not even our friends have ever interacted directly with me lol. :P sorry for the long rant, again, system gatekeeper. So i have a lot of feelings over misinformation about CDDs which. The way CDDs is like a huge part of my existence and the way i function hehe)
ughhh i love every bit of this im tagging this as longform. everybody read this right meow!! also your name is lovely. giving this as much boosts as possible bc ur very good at speaking :)