What's up with endogenic? How does that work if you don't mind my asking? Why is it a *bad* thing to some people? I understand if that's too much at once, could you point in a direction to learn more? /genuine
So some parts of the plural community think that the only way to be plural/multiple/a sysytem/have headmates is to undergo childhood trauma. This aligns with the current medical model about disordered systems, known as Dissociative Identity Disorder. The current medical model about DID was put into place by ableists and people who don't even think DID exists, in addition to scientists who think it's real.
The current medical model is not even universally accepted as the cause by all doctors, but they're having issues challenging it because the medical field is full of ableism :)
There are two main umbrella terms for plural individuals, traumagenic and endogenic. Traumagenic means your system formed as a result of trauma (be it in childhood or later) and endogenic means your system did not form as a result of trauma (it does not mean you did not experience trauma, just that it's unconnected to your systemhood).
Some traumagenic individuals who support the current medical model deny the existence of systemhood outside the bounds of being formed via childhood trauma. Therefore they think endogenic systems are fakers pretending to have DID. (Most other endos I know do not claim to have DID. I don't claim to have DID.)
This is honestly a newish thing because we have evidence of endogenic systems being active in the plural community for decades.
This is. A bare bones summary that does not go deep into the issues of sysmedicalism. But they are numerous and they do more harm to the plural community than any individual "faker" ever fucking has.
Also how being endo works for me is that I don't have any side effects from switching (common in disordered systems), I can create/delete headmates (idk how common this is for disordered systems but I have met Multiple that could do this, just not with the speed or ease I can), my status as a system is not related to trauma (I used to have DID, underwent final fusion w/o having a choice, and hated being an empty system so much I started creating headmates because being essentially a singlet sucked a lot actually.) Technically this makes me a mixed origin system, but I personally find a lot of comfort in the term endogenic and it Feels Most Correct so I use it.
