Information on The Tapeworms

[tapeworms-brain]

🦇 THE TAPEWORMS SYSTEM 🦇

Partial-DID system of 200+. Main host: @ratmans-notebooks . Call us alters, brainmates, or parts. Collective it/its, individual pronouns vary. I+ use I+/me+/mine+/myself+, We/us and singular I/me interchangeably. Traumagenic but i 🖤 endos !! This is an endogenic/mixed origin safe space !!

Simplyplural: tapeworms

[plural-affirmations]

Here's to proxy systems!

A proxy system is defined as "where one functions as a singlet (or approximately close to one[...]) due to a frontstuck host, yet members of the system are [...] distinct in headspace" [via Pluralpedia].

Shoutout to proxy systems who:

Are median

Have OSDD-1A or P-DID

Live life as a singlet most of the time, or only tell close loved ones about their system

Also identify as specutien

Didn't initially know they were a proxy system due to lack of information in plural spaces

Thought their system might've been something else at first, such as a kin system, or thought that they were just a singlet

Please know you are so important to us! You deserve as much place in the plural community as anyone else! Did you know how amazing you are? Well, now you do! It's going to be ok, and you'll get through anything you might be facing right now.

We love you!

🖤💜💙💚💛

[all-sys-vents]

i hate being a p-did system because i’m the host. that means i’m stuck in front all day everyday for-fucking-ever. i can’t even leave when others co-front. i am always here. i never get a break, i never get a single moment away from front. away from everything. it’s like the rest of my system might as well not even exist. they don’t do anything. they don’t take over. all they do is split off and disappear. they don’t even exist in the black void of our headspace. they don’t have lives beyond whenever they front with me. the most distress i experience due being a system is because i cannot switch out. i cannot take a rest or let anyone else do anything. i don’t even fucking know if i am a system or not at this point. sixty plus alters? and what do they do? fuck all. the only way i could catch a fucking break is if somehow we could switch hosts. which given how i’ve been stuck here my entire fucking life is very unlikely.

🫂

I got a friend who has a pretty similar experience. She isn't exactly fond of it either.

[sh4r1ng-my-kn0wl3dg3]

Partial Dissociative Identity Disorder / P-DID

Partial Dissociative Identity Disorder, or P-DID, is a dissociative disorder recognized in the ICD-11 by the World Health Organization. It is closely related to DID, but people with P-DID often stay aware of different parts or identities at the same time instead of fully switching between them.

Most researchers believe P-DID and DID are usually connected to chronic childhood trauma, neglect, fear, or overwhelming stress. Dissociation is thought to act as the brain’s survival mechanism, separating emotions, memories, or experiences to cope.

However, some people and researchers believe dissociative systems can sometimes develop through additional factors besides what is traditionally labeled as trauma. These may include severe chronic stress, emotional compartmentalization, neurodevelopmental conditions like autism, long-term depersonalization, identity disturbance, maladaptive daydreaming, intense fantasy involvement, or intentionally reinforced plurality over time. Some people also describe developing system-like experiences through practices such as tulpamancy, meditation, roleplay, or deep internal visualization, though these experiences remain controversial and are not fully understood scientifically.

Symptoms of P-DID can include internal conversations, emotional shifts, derealization, depersonalization, memory problems, identity confusion, and feeling disconnected from yourself or your surroundings. Many people with P-DID appear outwardly functional while struggling internally, and dissociative disorders are often misunderstood or misdiagnosed.

Treatment usually focuses on stability, communication between parts, grounding skills, and improving quality of life rather than forcing one specific outcome. Experiences with dissociation can vary greatly from person to person, and mental health professionals increasingly recognize that dissociation exists on a spectrum.

[pride-stars]

P-DID : a dissociative disorder described in the ICD that is similar to Dissociative Identity Disorder, but rarely exhibits full switches. It is defined as having one dominant headmate with one or more non-dominant headmate(s), that primarily influence the dominant headmate or go co-conscious with them.

[polypeptied]

[gentlewindchimes]

uhhh shoutout to systems.. with headmates who have no roles.

[pride-stars]

Frontstuck : when a headmate is fronting and, suddenly or not, becomes unable to leave front.

[fictfrenzy]

you know?

[leathersys]

on having a "collective consciousness"

[solarandsystem]

Really like this piece, been dealing with more depersonalization recently LOL

[leathersys]

common occurrence

[fictive-culture]

Fictive culture is seeing people make angsty content of you and being sad because it's too accurate to how you were treated in source (keep doing it tho, it's nice that you have sympathy for me)

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[analog-autistic]

plural ask game !! 🌟

🔮 Who has existed the longest?

🛍️ Who’s the newest?

🧬 Who’s in front right now?

🧼 If you have fictives, what source do you have the most from?

💿 What’s your current (approximate) headcount?

🎆 Whats a plural joke you find funny? (Or stupid)

🎲 An out-of-context thing you’ve heard in-sys recently

🎟️ How long have you known? How long have you suspected?

🫐 Do you have different art styles? Writing styles? Tones of voice?

💐 Is there anything you all collectively like? Collectively dislike?

🐬 What’s the most common color that appears in your system?

👾 What’s the most common species to appear in your system?

[narcpolar]

Zombie&

pt: Zombie& / Zombie ampersand

a term for when one’s plurality makes them feel like a zombie, like they died and their plurality brought them back to life.

taglist: @radiomogai @jesteroftheangel @dragonpride17 @marrow-coining @metacoining @sugaryvexillogy @goatgai @just-aguara @cameracoined , ask to be added or removed

[4e3076]

when someone types a bit differently

[weird-plurality-is]

weird plurality is not having a headspace & being an artist, so slowly cobbling together the other alters'... personas i guess?? with character creators & daydream-comics they contribute to.

Which leads tooo

"Why the fuck are you a shadowy catgirl and why the fuck are YOU a satyr. faun? satyr?" "No im a satyr. Look, you're the only one who cares about the fact that 'you' have almost never had a true human persona. I'm gonna be a green haired hot man with goat legs and ears." and realizing he has a point

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