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no because if you had to create a system in order to survive i feel like youre basically doing the same as traumagenic systems

even if it wasnt to survive a traumatic situation your system still aids you with day to day tasks no matter how small and that still counts as survival

i really cant understand why endogenic systems are so frowned upon

So this is our take on system terminology. We saw a post the other day saying that the asker was fine with endogenic systems, but thought that endogenics shouldn't use "system" or "plural" and should instead create their own terms. Let me say this nice and loud for the people who need somebody to shout through a bullhorn before they pay attention:

PLURAL IS AN ENDOGENIC TERM. SYSTEM IS A COMMUNITY TERM. THE MEDICAL TERM IS MULTIPLE.

[Pt Plural is an endogenic term. System is a community term. The medical term is multiple.]

You can really tell when people have put in zero effort to learn about the history of some of the terminology they use. "System" has always been a community term, going back to at least the 1990s. It has always been used by both traumagenic and endogenic systems. "Plural" was coined in the late 1990s or early 2000s as an alternative to "natural multiple." The thinking was that referring to what are now called endogenic systems as "natural multiple" systems not only tied them too closely to medical terminology, but also implied that there was something unnatural about what are now called traumagenic systems. The term "plural" was coined by natural multiples in order to distance non-disordered systems from medical terminology.

Once more: Plural was coined by natural multiples (endogenic systems) to distance themselves from the more medical terminology "multiple systems."

If you're out here saying endogenic systems should coin their own terms to separate them from the medicalized system community, THEY ALREADY DID! [pt They already did!] If you want a separate term for disordered systems, your term is "multiple."

Please for the love of everything do some research! This is why the endogenic community gets pissed about the terminology debates. The answers to your assertions are right there. Take five seconds to make sure your argument isn't entirely ignorant of the history of the system community as a whole. I'm so sick of this and I'm not even 100% endogenic. You have the entire internet at your fingertips. Use it.

I will add citations and links later today or tomorrow. I just got off work and am very tired and have a bunch of housework to do. This has just been nagging at me in the back of my head for like three days now. If anyone else would like to add sources, be my guest.

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This [user/alter/headmate/system/plural/collective] is pluralpunk.

Pluralpunk (or plurpunk) is a movement that focuses on embracing one's plurality and all of its intricacies in a radically accepting way, as well as challenging the accepted "norms" of plurality within their own system and identity.

Flag and definition can be found here.

Okay so I might aswell make an actual post about this and hope that it gains some traction maybe

So basically I’ve been making some terms that are similar to system roles + terms etc. but not specifically for / exclusive to systems ( so for variforms , polyminds , multiselves etc. ) !

These terms may be used by literally anyone for any reason , whether they consider themselves plural or not , I really don’t mind as long as it’s all used in good faith :-)

I plan to make a flag template for the role equivalents but I’m not sure what it’ll look like yet so any help with ideas is very appreciated !

All the terms I’ve got atm ( all subject to change ) :

important to note that I’m using the word ‘form’ here as a general term and can be replaced with mind / self / etc. ( I only used form since I’m variform :p )

role : function or responsibility , not 100% sure yet

Host : focalform

Co-host co-focalform

Protector : guard(ian) form

Brainmade : mindformed or brainformed ? Idk yet

Fictive : ficten form ( fiction + en )

Factive : facten form ( fact + en )

Introject : insen form ( insert + en )

( en meaning ‘ made of ‘ )

I’m not sure who to tag for this ? But any reblogs would be very appreciated though so that others can see this :-)

Also for terms I’ve missed ( which I know I have ) , please lmk and I can reblog this with the added ones !! ( or make a masterlist style post probably )

I'm trying to find some works of fiction featuring people who are plural (especially OSDDID systems, but any form of plurality is good), but I just keep running into crime thrillers where the villian is a serial killer with DID/MPD (depending on how old the book is) and similar shit. So I wanted to see if anybody had any suggestions.

I recognize my own coping methods well enough to know that this is how I process things. This was how I processed being nonbinary. This was how I processed being diagnosed with a chronic pain disorder. So I recognize that this is me beginning to really process being diagnosed with DID. (That's why I say I'm especially looking to find stories about DID systems - because that's my diagnosis - but again, any plurality is good so long as it isn't being portrayed as scary and evil. Truly and sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck the serial killer/evil alter trope.)

I'm open to any form of fiction. I already know about the Moon Knight comics/TV show, I'm in the process of reading the Elle(s) comics, and I'm currently listening to the Malevolent podcast. But comics, novels, TV shows, audio dramas, fanfiction, I genuinely do not care what form of media or what type of plurality. I'm just trying to find fictional representation of plurality that isn't the Serial Killer Alter™️.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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This [user/system/plural/collective] is traumabased.

Tramabased refers to a system that is based in trauma. This does not always mean DID/OSDD etc (but it could), and it doesn't mean only childhood trauma. It can affect structure or members. This means that trauma has affected the way the system exists, but it isn’t necessarily an ‘origin’

Flag and definition can be found here.