The Prism Minds Project

Like light passing through a prism, similar experiences can be interpreted and understood in many different ways. This project aims to explore those perspectives without assuming any single explanation.

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The Prism Minds Project: Many Experiences, Many Perspectives

"Like light passing through a prism, similar experiences can be interpreted and understood in many different ways. This project aims to explore those perspectives without assuming any single explanation."

A long questionnaire developed by @anti-willo-solivan to understand systems around the world. The current goalpost for all respondents stands to at least 600 responses or more!

This questionnaire was inspired by @anti-willo-sukuna and @anti-willo-valerie . Val has his own survey as well -> Take his System Survey here!

Take The Prism Minds Project: System Questionnaire!

Approximately 130 questions (some questions are conditional and may be skipped automatically). All questions are optional, and respondents are encouraged to skip anything they are uncomfortable answering.

Topics include daily life, internal dynamics, treatment experiences, community involvement, personal interpretations of plurality, and many other aspects of systemhood. The project is also interested in observing broader patterns that may emerge across different groups and experiences—not to judge, rank, or invalidate anyone, but simply to better understand the diversity of perspectives that people report.

[the-prism-minds-project]

would there be a way to get our responses back from the form if we want it?

That required me to turn on email collecting, which pretty much defeated the purpose of the survey being completely anonymous, so unfortunately you will not be able to retrieve your responses from the form. Unless you can remember specific pointers from what you said and feel comfortable dming me about it, I would be able to manually retrieve them.

[the-prism-minds-project]

Traumaendo here (mixed origins), im so sorry for all the shit ur recieving from both sides... i believe it has been stated lany time that the person managing this blog is endo neutral and only wishes to have perspective from both sides, which people don't ?? want to listen somehow ???

If anything, i find it cute, keep the good work !!!

ps: i took your questionnaire a while ago ^^

Thank you, I really appreciate the kindness.

Honestly, I've been doing just fine. I expected some pushback from both sides the moment I decided to pursue a project centered around understanding perspectives rather than simply reinforcing one camp or another.

People are passionate about subjects that are deeply personal to them, and sometimes that passion turns into suspicion or hostility. I understand why that happens, even if I don't always agree with the conclusions people draw.

At the end of the day, all I really want is perspective. Agreement has never been the goal. If people walk away feeling more understood—or even just feeling that they've had the chance to explain themselves in good faith—then I consider that worthwhile.

And thank you. I'm glad you find the project interesting, and your support means a lot. :)

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I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned this to you, but a lot of people have tags blocked from the opposite side of the anti/pro endo debate and that thus limits the reach you’re getting. Idk if there’s really away around this, maybe not tagging stances and just using blanket system and plural tags? I just wanted to let you know in case you didn’t as I didn’t know this account existed until you tagged it on your anti-willoverse blog because I have all the pro-endo tags blocked :)

Thank you for letting me know! I had considered that possibility, but I didn't realize just how many people block tags associated with the opposite side of the debate.

At the moment, I'm still experimenting with tags in an attempt to reach a variety of people and avoid ending up with responses from only one perspective. Since most of the current submissions have come from anti-endos and people with CDDs, I've been trying to balance things out. It's been mostly a 50 to 30 ratio.

[the-prism-minds-project]

Hi, may I share this project on my blog? /gen

I'm heavily pro endo, and regularly post about it, which is why you may be apprehensive, but I think it's really important to talk about and see plurality and systemhood outside of just looking at syscourse, and this kinda does that

I understand if youd rather only promote it yourself though! /gen

Of course! You're more than welcome to share the project.

The entire point of this blog is to gather perspectives from a wide variety of people, regardless of whether they agree with me or with one another. I don't expect everyone who interacts with the project to share my views, and I certainly don't expect them to promote it only if they do.

As long as people understand that the purpose of the project is discussion and understanding rather than debate or conversion, I have no problem with it being shared. In fact, reaching people outside of my own circles is precisely what I hope for.

Thank you for your interest, and I appreciate your willingness to help spread it around! <333

[the-prism-minds-project]

i’m really curious what the end result of the survey is gonna be ^^

Me too!! ^^

[the-prism-minds-project]

How many responses is the survey at so far?

Really excited about seeing the results

225 responses as of now!

[the-prism-minds-project]

Sorry people have been absolutely badgering the lot of you, pros and antis alike. We're very adamantly anti-endo and admittedly a couple of us had some choice thoughts about the whole 'answers from both sides' thing, but either way we think it's an interesting and quite a brave thing for you to be doing. We know what it's like out in here, so for you to willingly cross into both ends for the survey's quite a bold tactic. Well done on all you're doing and I hope the lot of you are alright.

All is well, and thank you for the kind words. Being badgered this much honestly does not bother me very much. People will find reasons to be upset online no matter how many times you clarify your intentions, and that is unfortunately just part of existing on the internet.

Online environments also tend to encourage the online disinhibition effect. People often feel less vulnerable to criticism or social consequences because of factors like dissociative anonymity and asynchronicity—the ability to distance themselves from confrontation and respond on their own terms. I find that phenomenon more interesting than upsetting.

At the end of the day, I only seek perspective, not agreement. The purpose of this project was never to convince everyone to agree with one another, but to better understand how different people arrive at their beliefs and experiences.

So while I may strongly disagree with certain conclusions, I don't see much value in becoming angry over disagreement itself. I'd rather remain curious than hostile. If anything, I mostly feel sympathy for those who choose outrage over understanding and reaction over research. I think everyone benefits more when we approach each other with curiosity rather than assuming the worst in most cases.

[the-prism-minds-project]

You claim to be neutral, but everything is tagged with pro-endo, pro-willo, etc. Where's the support for actual, traumagenic systems?

The tags are there for outreach and visibility, not endorsement. I believe I have stated this many times.

Most of the responses we've received so far have come from anti-endos and people with CDDs. Using pro-endo, pro-willo, and similar tags helps us reach the communities we're actually trying to hear from so that the results aren't overwhelmingly one-sided.

As for support for people with CDDs, that has never disappeared. If you're looking for advocacy, resources, or opinions specifically centered around traumagenic systems, the host's anti-willo blog already exists and is dedicated to exactly that. (@anti-willo-solivan) <- THIS BLOG IS NOT SAFE FOR ENDOS, INTERACT WITH CAUTION.

This project serves a different purpose. It isn't meant to be a support blog, nor is it intended to represent the beliefs of every alter involved. It's a research and discussion project. Reaching people we disagree with is quite literally apart of that process. It's called productive conflict—if I disagree with someone, I can politely ask why they think that way instead of fakeclaiming them when the opportunity arises. This is why the project exists.

Having tags that make our posts visible to pro-endos or willogenic systems does not mean we have abandoned traumagenic systems.

[the-prism-minds-project]

didn’t have the spoons to do open response but we took the survey :3 we is adamantly pro endo, origins unknown, but can fuck with ppl being respectful and learning from each other

wish the religion questions allowed multiple responses tho cause that answer is…not consistent amongst us

Thank you for the feedback!!! I've been hearing a lot about some answers not containing multiple choices to select from, but with how many questions are in the survey + the hundreds of responses, it's far too laggy for me to go back and edit them. I truly do apologize for that.. I encourage people that wasn’t able to click multiple options to put their options at the end of the forum and I'll happily change some stuff around on the sheet version—as its not as laggy as the questionnaire itself, haha.

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As I stated once before. I don't care what your stance is on this blog here, but I will not tolerate fakeclaiming or rude comments to either party in my asks, dms, or post comments. These comments will be deleted and blocked. I encourage you, that if you do not like the stance I hold, use the block button.

This project is for FUN and to study patterns between every system involved. I am not agreeing with either side nor am I disagreeing with either. I am NEUTRAL. Thank you.

— Ichabod (He/Star)

[the-prism-minds-project]

I may have missed this somewhere - How are you going to be sharing the data you collect?

And what does your timeline look like? (In theory, I understand theres a lot of room for variability in this ^^)

Google forms comes with pie charts for answers! Also I have a google sheets version as well! :)

The current timeline goes until I reach the goalpost of 600 or 500 respondents really. So far there are 200+ responses, I might go for even more if it's possible!

[the-prism-minds-project]

Please actually read the TOS before taking the survey. Every question is asked in good faith with current statistics and every answer is voluntary.

[the-prism-minds-project]

already sent my response in so i can't edit it but regarding the disabilities portion (the one with all the neurological/musculoskeletal/etc options) we didn't select anything because we are not *diagnosed* with anything. if it were based off what we're receiving treatment for (over the counter/non formally), have obvious symptoms of, or are medically recognized with but not diagnosed, we would've selected genitourinary and neurodevelopmental.

i liked that this survey was easy to understand and felt like an actual survey like what we've been handed by medical professionals. it's unlike most surveys or polls by tumblr system communities that look exactly like they were made to be a quotev quiz. i prefer when it's made this way because usually these have plenty of thought put into them while the quiz-like ones feel like an upcoming question will ask "whats your favorite color" and then leave out multiple colors of the rainbow.

Thank you so much for participating and for the thoughtful feedback!

And no worries at all regarding the disabilities section! That's actually very helpful feedback and something I'll definitely keep in mind going forward. I can't go back and edit the survey due to it being so laggy, so formal diagnoses, medically recognized conditions, treatment history, or symptoms without diagnosis can be added to the disabilities section or at the final section as clarification.

However, I'm really glad you found the survey easy to understand! I spent a lot of time trying to make it feel like a genuine questionnaire rather than a personality quiz, so hearing that it reminded you of surveys you've received from medical professionals means a lot to me.

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Hello! I hope you don't mind me reaching out.

I've been working on a personal project called The Prism Minds Project, a long-form survey exploring how systems of different origins and beliefs describe their experiences, daily life, treatment, community involvement, and interpretations of plurality.

At the moment, I've noticed that my responses are mostly skewed toward my own circles, and I'm hoping to gather a wider range of perspectives—including those from endogenic and nontraumagenic-origin communities—so that the results better reflect the diversity of experiences people report.

Participation is entirely voluntary, all questions may be skipped, and the goal is to understand perspectives rather than debate them. I do have my own views, but I'm genuinely interested in collecting and understanding a variety of perspectives from every system I can reach out to. That's part of why I created the project.

If you feel comfortable sharing the survey or participating yourself, I'd be grateful. If not, I completely understand and appreciate your time regardless. Thank you!

— @anti-willo-solivan

OP is anti-endo, but the survey is open to all. If you'd like to participate, we found the link on this blog @the-prism-minds-project

Obviously we would recommend you have some caution when filling out the survey, questions are in some ways anti-endo biased (for example, not having the option to pick both "endogenic" and having a dissociative disorder). But if you want to fill it out, there's always a chance your experiences could open the mind of an anti-endo

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I didn't realize the question wasn't multiple choice, I'm so sorry😭

[the-prism-minds-project]

Currently in the middle of taking the survey, absolutely loving it! I personally identify as neutral towards pretty much everything in system communities, so I absolutely love when research involves mixed neutral resources. Very happy you're working on this :) p.s. research and statistics are a real common interest of mine, so i love paying attention to this whole thing :)

I'm really happy to hear you're enjoying the survey so far, and I'm especially glad to hear from someone else who also enjoys research and statistics!

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This is weird behavior. Endo systems aren't real. You can't have alters without structural dissociation and you can't have structural dissociation without trauma. Please stop enabling abelists and spreading misinformation.

I understand your concern, but The Prism Minds Project is not intended to determine which explanations are correct or to advocate for any particular framework.

The purpose of the project is to collect and preserve perspectives from people with many different experiences and beliefs and to allow respondents to explain those experiences in their own words.

Listening to and documenting perspectives does not necessarily imply agreement with every interpretation offered, nor does it require abandoning one's own views. You are aware of this, correct?

Curiosity and disagreement are not mutually exclusive things, and understanding how people describe their experiences is one of the goals of the project. There is no misinformation upon this blog. I have not shared resources here nor any responses yet.

I usually avoid asks like these, but I think I should make it known. Any form of anti-endo or pro-endo making attempts to shun the other will be ignored and deleted.