#polymindence

[hello-heteronyms]

I love when people ask us about becoming plural and we get to be like :D good news! you can! :D

(most of these are not inherently plural experiences but they are all ways of talking to parts of yourself or creating mental companions of some sort. plurality isn't always the thing people we talk to ultimately want, sometimes having a self-representing animal friend works better for them!)

[the-indigo-syndicate]

"Women mature faster than men" is just another slogan meant to reinforce abuse towards women/those perceived as women, and to have men avoid taking accountability for their actions.

It's literally just "boys will be boys", yet women tend to perpetuate this one the most as if its some sort of superiority

[pyro-thoughts]

this is a genuine question… why are people hating on polyminds? I’ve only recently learned about them but it just seems like IFS without it being applied in therapy - and I see some intending to use their system (the medical term) in therapy when possible.

So far I haven’t seen any polyminds claiming to be plural, but moreso a collective of selfstates or subpersonalities that have been given roles to better understand the self. Not like… larping being a system.

This is a genuine question so please don’t be an ass if you reply 😭 both anti and pro (and neutral) opinions are very welcome as, again, this is a genuine question and I’m curious to see what other people think. Like I said, this is new to me, so I’m just seeking more clarity on the situation.

Thank you in advance !!!

[nullfilled]

would it be acceptable for me to cope with my dissociation by making up different personalities/identities and pretending to be them. it brings me an odd sense of comfort. Does this have a name. also im pretty sure its not IFS thats another thing iirc. (Other?) plurals help me out—..

[cisstupid]

Allfluid / Fullfluid / Everyfluid / Fluid+ / Fluid& / FluID - or, just... "fluid"!

I couldn't find anything I felt fit that I really enjoyed so I did what I do best and made my own thing. i whipped this up in like a day

"FluID" or fluid / flux identity is what it says on the tin ... where every aspect of your identity is fluid or in flux. It can happen quickly or slowly, and change an infinite amount of times into an infinite number of things.

This term isn't inherently plural but it's very plural coded! If you have multiple selves or alters, either your fluid identity could be switching between them, or your individual alters or selves could also have fluid identity within the overall! fluid within fluid! The explicitly plural form of fluID is fluID&

This ID IS inherently pro-transID and/or adjacent terms / atypical identity

The flag and symbol are my own interps, anyone can make any other flags or symbols they feel fits the term! info about them & alt flags under cut :O

the symbol is interlocking / overlapping multicolored infinity symbols representing all aspects of identity being different but connected. the second symbol with the heart represents those pieces of identity belonging together (no matter what they are :])

the stripes meanings are, in order: All / Everything Presentation (name + pronouns + gender + overall) Gender spectrum Attraction spectrum Nothing / None Genus + species + race/breed Age + mortality All / Else

The rainbow gradient people represent identity as a concept and how its fluid, with the symbols in them being a spectrum from multiself singlet, to singlet or plural polymind, to "fully" plural and beyond (with the fluID symbol in the middle)

[apollonheights]

shoutout to non-systems

shoutout to non-systems who are plural

shoutout to non-systems who are demi-plural or semi-multiple

shoutout to non-systems who are median or in-between being plural and singlet

shoutout to non-systems who are plurallets, syslets, plural-adjacent or singlet-adjacent

shoutout to non-systems who are pluralflux or systemflux

shoutout to non-plural non-systems

shoutout to non-systems who consider themselves singlets

shoutout to non-systems who are polyminded and/or multiself

shoutout to non-systems who are constelic

shoutout to non-systems who are also aplural

shoutout to non-plural non-systems who are multiple, multipsyche, otherwise multiminded

shoutout to non-plural/aplural systems

shoutout to non-systems who use other terms

shoutout to non-systems who dont use any of those terms

shoutout to non-systems !

bonus shoutout to non-systems who are questioning their plurality

i'll probably make more of these types of posts idk

[starstruck-sillies]

Since apparently people are still being weird about polyminds for no damn reason, reminder that polyminds are awesome and valid. We support polyminds 100% and yall are always welcome here. I have no idea why people are hating on yall again.

Some notes;

-Polyminds are NOT endos. They aren't systems, nor are they claiming to be. They aren't claiming a disorder, they aren't claiming to be just like us, they are actively trying to keep their distance, calm down.

-There's nothing wrong with their terms sounding similar to system terms. What they experience is similar in some ways, but it's still different, so it makes sense that their terms would sound similar. They aren't appropriating system terms.

-Polymindence wasn't coined to "appease anti endos", it was because someone had a similar experience to systems, but knew it was still different, and wanted to put words to that. It's also not an anti endo term, it's inherently a syscourse unaligned term. If a (pro) endo wants to use the term, they 100% can. The focus is, and always has been, on describing an experience with sub-personalities. Stop dragging them into syscourse, they want nothing to do with it. They aren't suck-ups for not using system terms.

-People can be polyminded and a system at the same time afaik, it's not mutually exclusive.

-They aren't just rebranded endos. PLEASE look into sub-personalities I beg of you.

-They aren't invading system spaces. They have their own communities, and while these are typically shared with systems, they don't waltz into system only spaces. They still keep to their corner, don't charge into it and scream about how awful they are when they aren't doing anything wrong. Literally just leave them alone.

If there's anything I missed here lmk. I know it took a while for us to talk about the recent nonsense polymind hate train, we've been busy lol.

Anyway, polyminds are very cool and we love yall /p. Don't let the cruel people on TikTok try to define your identity, don't let people who refuse to understand you say you're wrong, and keep being you.

-Kaz