#system parts

[unwelcome-ozian]

Fragments: Some alters are very limited in their role, for example they may only have a small number of emotions, hold particular isolated memories or have a very limited job. These 'partial' alters are sometimes known as fragments. Fragments can either have a range of emotions but only a limited life history, or a more substantial life history but be unable to feel a range of emotions (for example, always sad, either angry or fearful). Special purpose fragments are even more limited, for example existing to carry out a very limited role and never acting beyond that. Memory fragments hold a very limited knowledge of an event, and only experiencing very limited emotions. Several fragments together may hold a single event.

[the-creature-system]

system bracelets !!! + bone chain +weird squiggly thing this isn't all the bracelets,,, i still have to make one for legacy and jax and c.c. BUT THESE ARE DONE SO YAYYY

[furiousgoldfish]

Did anyone with osdd or did have their inner dynamics resemble the ones happening in the family you grew up in?

The family I grew up in, every member had to fend for themselves and do their own thing, there was no support. Everyone would struggle for control out of deep anxieties and they would fight dirty and hurt others to get that control for themselves. There was no cooperation, no communication, and every single person blamed somebody else for it. Those with power over others abused it.

The kids were the most convinced they needed to protect the adults from the abuse of other adults, often sacrificing themselves in the process. The adults found kids to be mere annoyances and disregarded their entire existence as frivolous. Everyone was keeping their secrets and stubbornly kept doing their own thing under the radar. Everyone was scared of the authority and wanted to either be in their good graces or avoid the authority completely. Everyone was intensely stubborn and never changed their mind.

And now this is exactly what my system is like. Uncooperative, everyone fending for themselves, kids trying to sacrifice themselves for protection of the system, the struggle for control defined by the most anxious part's anxiety. Everyone so damn stubborn you couldn't convince them they were ever wrong about anything. Everyone running away from authority and doing their thing in secret, doing everything to keep their ever move secret.

I'm starting to think that maybe this isn't coincidental? Maybe the parts are frozen in that past dynamics and unable to figure out that they're no longer in the hostile environment where the authority here doesn't exist to exploit and hurt them. Or maybe this is just the only way they learned to function because it's all they've known. Can anyone else see similarities in how their family of origin functioned, to how their alters function now?

[kaizendid]

We’ve been straying away from using specific terms for each part of our system. Tumblr makes it seem like every part of a system should have a specific role, I’ve even seen someone claim that parts who don’t have a “role” are “just fragments” (which is entirely wrong on its own). The truth is that a lot of the time parts can take on multiple roles, change roles, or maybe don’t fit a specific role at all and that doesn’t make them any less important. 

Roles aren’t important at all. They’re just made-up terms that help other people understand what alters are, and a lot of the time they force a wrong idea about certain roles (persecutors for example). 

[unwelcome-ozian]

Emotional Observing Parts (OEP)-Alters who have the ability to observe and hear alters in the system that others parts are unable to. Some Observing parts may be insightful regarding how to assist the system. A few OEP involve some level of care taking. These parts typically do not interact externally in the world, but can be active internally.

[unwelcome-ozian]

Abuser alters Abuser alters are often introjects of the original abuser(s) - the parents in most cases. These alters are actually trying to protect the individual and not trying to injure them. The abuse results because they feel that they are protecting the system of alters by preventing actions that, when the individual was a child, might have caused further harm from the original abuser.

[unwelcome-ozian]