We’re sad and horrified that parts of the plural community are at a point where they don’t even know what the term “median” is, or where it came from.
From our reply on twitter to someone asking if it was “new” and “endogenic jargon”:
"Median" ("neither multiple nor singlet") was coined in 2002 by the Blackbirds. It replaced "midcontinuum" ("somewhere on the spectrum between multiple and singlet"), coined in 1997 by an inclusive trauma-formed system named the Vickis.
It was coined in 2002. It’s been 21 years.
We get that that’s “a long time” ago if you’re like, 15 years old, but it’s... not. It’s not that long ago. But younger and newer systems are just, as far as we know, not even looking at resources or even googling things. Some terms are hard to find or trace back, yeah, but “median” isn’t one of them.
It’s disheartening, and frustrating. Especially when you have anti-endogenic/anti-nontraumagenic systems barking about RESEARCH! and SCIENCE! and COMMUNITY HISTORY! when... a good portion of them don’t seem to even have a clue. They don’t know the research. They don’t know the science. They really don’t know the community history.
The only fake thing in the plural community is the confidence of sysmeds...
Genuinely hoping that some day, this changes. Community history is vital.