All the terms and labels I use to describe my plurality
(And why)
Aka: What the fuck is this guy talking about, oh there's a post describing it.
Plural
The big catch-all term for anyone who experiences being "more than one". Important to note that this is completely seperate from me being polyminded.
Polymind
Seperated subpersonalities. The majority of the subpersonalities seperated are EPs (specifically with Secondary Structural Dissociation).
Cope Identity
A response to your emotions being so strong they feel like seperate people due to identity confusion. Exactly what it sounds like, I essentially personified my emotions.
Dividentity
When there's two distinct sides to your identity that do not blend.
Frairor
When your identity feels like a shattered mirror, seperated, but all part of the same mirror. Now you may be asking, how can you be both dividentity and frairor? They describe different levels of my identity.
Fader Identity
Where ones identity feels like a set of faders. The primary fader is how "vibrant" or "active" your identity is, the secondary fader being the core parts of your identity, and the tertiary faders being the smaller parts of your identity. My subpersonalities and copeIDs are tertiary faders, while my dividentity is the secondary fader.
Now to what I made the fuck up!
Holon
Whole parts in another whole thing. My personalities, the reason I use plural, my secondary faders, my dividentity.
Faction
Used to say factions of my mind, it just stuck, there's no reason I use faction otherwise. My subpersonalities/minds, my copeIDs, my tertiary faders, the reason I use polymind; cope identity; and frairor.
Class
No reason I use class other than funny TF2 reference, since my one class is part of a faction. Polymind terms she's a "submind".
Traumabased
Traumagenic + traumashattered. Basically I am the way I am because of trauma, I use traumabased instead of the other two simply for ease.
Main
Whichever part of me is "main" is the one in control. "Fronting" "active"
Second
Basically "co-fronting" or "co-active" or "co-conscious". I will almost never use this unless it's important to know.
Changing
I never use this really, basically "switching" or "swapping".
%
This is from faderID, the primary fader. 100% is I'm doubting my identity since one of us has stayed in main for far too long and everything feels hazy, 0% is somebody pressing all the buttons and levers and we're rapidly changing.
Pride
Describing everyone, "collective". Referencing lions for two reasons. 1. The Lion King, its our special interest. 2. We get to say my pride sometimes, and we loved that series.
Why don't I use language folks already know?
It feels bad to. My plurality, polymindence, and cope identities are so intertwined. Things like active and swapping are for polyminds, while medical terms like fronting feels wrong for me to use, we are not medical. So I decided fuck it, we're doing our own thing and we're gonna leave everyone confused. Feel free to use any of the terms I mentioned.