#monoconscious system

[felidae-pluralities]

"average alter fronts 300 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average alter fronts inconsistently. Always Present Host, who lives in the head & fronts over 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[pride-stars]

Monoconscious : a system with only one consciousness. Members do not have an individual consciousness, but instead share the collective consciousness. Monoconscious systems may experience changes in fronting as a smooth transition rather than a sudden switch.

[buggycat]

my silly example of monoconsciousness because it’s hard to explain lol

[the-magic-theater]

Hi, Percy here!

I thought a bit about ourself/ves and how we function and came to some conclusions. I think we may finally be able to somewhat accept the way we work and be sure of our plurality, even if we are far from satisfied with the status quo (for example we'd like to be more separate, or at least have one headmate that's separate from us).

One thing I want to talk about is how we exist. We've talked about this before, but we're often closer to being singlet than multiple. We don't want to call ourself a singlet, since we feel more comfortable labeling ourself as plural and the community allows us to be more ourselves. But our experience is definitely closer to the singlet side of the spectrum, with us oftentimes feeling more like one person but in different fonts, or just very inconsistent in identity overall but not in a way where we can figure out a pattern. We usually need to concentrate on our thoughts and ignore the body to even be aware of who's fronting, if we can even discern it at all. Our body has an associated identity that tends to affect us quite strongly and basically overwrites anything that contradicts it, which causes blurriness.

There's also a certain voluntary aspect to fronting, as it often comes down to us choosing who we are or who we want to be in that moment, instead of really knowing it. This is one of the things we've grappled with quite a bit but I've now come to the conclusion that it really is just the way we function and it may actually be more beneficial than harmful for us. I think we should utilize it to help solidify our identities instead of using it as a reason to doubt our plurality.

Another thing I thought about is terminology. I've already been using identities to refer to myself and the others sometimes, as that's basically what we are. We often don't feel like complete people but more so like one of the many identities of "one" person. We are monoconscious, which means our consciousness is/feels continuous between different headmates (or identities). There's not really a feeling of being separate, since our switching is more like becoming someone else.

All of this, I think, also requires a change of system name, in my opinion. I'd like it to reflect the way we function more adequately (and to be honest we've been disliking it for a bit already). It would also be nice to have something that doesn't stick out too much in singlet spaces, so something that doesn't include "-sys" or "-system" would be better.

Anyway, I really wanted to get this out of my *pardon the (unintentional) joke* system! Would I have waited I don't know if we would've been able to write this. But I thought this would be quite useful to both ourself and anyone who might read it, which is why I really wanted to write and post it.

[your-fav-is-plural]

Zim from Invader Zim is a Traumagenic Monoconscious NPDbased Factive-Heavy OSDD-1A System!

Traumagenic refers to a system whose creation / origin is the result of one or more traumatic events. Often, these systems have lingering trauma, and may fall under a diagnosis like DID or OSDD-1

Monoconscious refers to a system with only one consciousness. Members do not have an individual consciousness, but instead share the collective consciousness. Monoconscious systems may experience changes in fronting as a smooth transition rather than a sudden switch

An NPDbased system is heavily influenced by having Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with it possibly affecting the innerworld, headmate roles, or the headmates themselves, but isn't a system origin. For NPDbased systems, this can mean that the system has a very low stress tolerance leading to more splits in general, is more likely to split religious figures, celebrities, deities, attention seekers, nonhuman headmates, and similar

A Factive-Heavy system has a high number, or is mainly made of, factives, or outsourced headmates based on people who/things that exist in the outerworld. There is no set percentage or number needed to identify as factive-heavy

OSDD-1a is missing the distinct alters found in DID, preventing a diagnosis. Alters are more blurry between one another and often have a core or shell identity. The identities with an OSDD-1a system may be very similar or diverse; one common presentation is one individual within different "modes" or ages, like an angry self, a 12-year-old self, etc. OSDD-1a is different than typical mood changes due to the amnesiac barriers between headmates

[idiotlaintelligent]

Sys comic about finding out host was just two that co hosted and co fronted a ton made in a style to practice stick figures

Yeah this is about us lol TvT (The darker periwinkle being Peri and lighter not quite periwinkle being ili)

Fun fact: one of us goes by our online name (ili) and the other our irl name 😭😭😭😭😭

-ili & Peri

This is for those who know us before this

This isn’t our irl name, but Peri: he/it/they and the more sarcastic and well spoken of us. Talks more irl

ili: they/them the sillier one (if we’ve ever given up grammar or capitalization for comedic effect that was probably me lol) who’s online more

Will change up front tags a bit, so from now on the ili tag is for only ili, Peri (he/it/they) will be only for me, and perili will be for when it’s either both of us or we don’t know which of us it is (we already did this new system for a few lol)

@spr0cketz @cathypostslol @paintlicker-273 @weatherchannel-collective @bixleaf

[golden-patchwork]

See, we like using simply plural, because to an extent it’s useful to have everyone in one place and try and keep track of the fragments, but the fronting mechanic usually doesn’t work for us. We’re all always “fronting”, its just that it looks more like this:

[A digital sketch of six sliders. Ghost’s is a blue-gray and a third of the way up, Quilt’s is teal and two-thirds up, Lynne’s is rose gold and halfway up, Nati’s is lilac and almost all the way up, Little’s is a soft green-yellow a third of the way up, and Chase’s is a dark red two-thirds of the way up.]

The intensity of who’s controlling the body and who’s more prominent changes, but we’re all always “up front”.

I don’t know if this is a typical monoconscious experience, but that’s how we experience plurality.

[honeyed-katsu]

the only boyfriends ever but it's the pluralspace profiles of two of my alters