#polymind discourse

[cambriancrew]

i'm just noticing that... it's a lot of the same people who were all "i'm anti endo but i wouldn't care if they just used different terms" who are suddenly anti polymind. so... so that was a lie? so you don't actually care what terms anyone uses, you just want to hate? /nay

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Maury meme that says *You said you'd be fine if nonCDD folks used different terms. The fact you're hating on polyminds proves that was a lie."

[sophieinwonderland]

Ghost: I was a "perfect singlet" before Soph. I wasn't some kind of median system or polymind. I didn't have separate parts. I had one inner monologue. If I said part of me wanted one thing while another part wanted another, that was just a metaphor about conflicted feelings. My experiences as a singlet were nothing like I experience being plural. It was also nothing like how polyminds describe being "singlets."

I don't have a dog in this fight and don't care about syscourse, but some people have been saying the perfect singlet doesn't exist, and that seems to be coming from a community made up of people who have always been multiple in some way and can't conceive not being multiple. As someone who has been both singlet and plural, I wanted to offer this perspective.

[the-starry-city]

"polyminds just rip off our terms!"

You know what other experiences share a few terms with us?

Both alterhumans and systems may use nonhuman when talking about alterhumanity and or a nonhuman alter

Both age regressors and syskids may use the term little, little space, regressed, ect when talking about a age regressor or little alter

The agere community also uses the term caregiver for people who care for regressors, as well as the system community uses it for alters that care for vulnerable alters

BPD uses the term splitting for when someone is seeing in only black and white, the system community also uses the term splitting when an alter splits into 2 or more

Introjection is also not an exclusive CDD experience, it never has been, anyone can introject and I think it's stupid to gatekeep that term

Sharing terms isn't always bad given context, endos using the term system is a problem specifically because they use system in the same context as DID + their label "endogenic" was literally coined to mean "DID with no trauma"

Polymind was coined to mean "someone who distinguishes their sub personalities" it never had anything to do with DID

Polymind was never meant to be a replica or rebrand of a medical term, it was never a medical term and probably will never be, because it's a normal human experience that almost anyone can probably somewhat relate to

Polyminds have done nothing wrong and I will die on this hill and defend them from the hypocrisy of this community

Do better

[v4mqxirez]

Stupid stuff I've been thinking about lately

I should say I am at most polymind critical (neutral, but definitely critical of how people use it, etc) as I do find it quite a nice term for a normal human experience

However the terms beyond just "polymind" make me feel weird (hazy, any (insert thing)ling terms, job terms, etc)

This keeps me from using the term polymind

From what I've read it is people characterizing their subpersonalities more, which is fine, and this is also something I do

However, if it is such a common human experience then there shouldn't be so many different terms for it, and most basically have the same meaning as system terms, you know?

Idk if you have anything to say do so ill read it and stuff 😋

[jellyfish-are-stars]

the more i think about it the more i think i may be anti polymind instead of neutral. initially my take was like if ur not stealing medical language then i dont care but honestly... the act of naming parts of yourself is a very normal thing to do, in singlets and in systems.

i knew someone who named their tics phoebe so they could be like "oh phoebes a bitch today she keeps saying xyz" or "phoebe keeps slapping me in the face" yk, its just supposed to be funny. i Am a system and i refer to my anxiety and ed as the bitchy school girl in my head with she/her pronouns. i know shes just my anxiety and not an alter because its very distinctly different. bitchy school girl is My anxiety, its not seperate.

that is a normal way of processing difficult feelings or situations or just day to day stuff. its normal to feel like ur in different modes in different situations, or like you argue with conflicting parts of yourself. thats normal, it doesnt need to be labelled as smth

[lovebotcoded]

people saying polymind is bs is just so aaaah. why do you care. they aren't saying they are a system or endogenic or anything. leave them alone. polymind and endogenic are also very much not the same thing ??? endogenic system are related to system, polyminds is very much a different thing.

anyway just leaaaaaave people alone. why do people care so much about how others identify and what words they use to describe their experience. just leave others alone.

i am not polymind but damn. they aren't hurting anyone. just let them vibe with whatever term they use to describe themselves and their experience. they aren't spreading misinfos about disorders, and it very much their business if being polymind hurts them or not - it's nobody else business.

[shadycourse]

I respect anyone's rights to define their own experiences as they see fit. I might not entirely understand it, but as long as you're not harming anyone, I can still stand with you and just trust that you're speaking your truth.

But if your definition of your own experiences deliberately ends up excluding someone else from their space, I lose my good faith. I have no problem with polyminds in the general sense, but if your definition of polymind is "someone who exists as multiple people, not just ego states, specifically people. But they don't have a dissociative disorder, so they're not a system, because only people with those disorders can be systems". I have to ask. How many good faith interpretations are you going to find? Is this not directly fake claiming endogenic systems?

When your definition starts making wider claims about communities you're not even a part of (because it's an opt-in thing, the polymind behind this take is still polymind and I will respect that), then you lose my good faith. You can self identify without going out of your way to hurt others.

[i-the-vezzel]

Discourse around polymind is ridiculous. It literally just sounds like IFS's third cousin once removed.