Warning: syscourse ahead! All origins and stances can interact. I'm all origins inclusive and try to keep an open mind. anti-endos/anti-willos can interact, I won't bite, promise. @arcshuttle's and @mrpristineblade's plural blog. Just call us the Stage Crew, unless one of us signs off with a name. Trauma-endogenic. Bodily 21 years old. 98 members as of 28/07/26. Our humble little theater where we share our findings on plural and polyminded joys and issues.
"therapist would never tell you to treat your alters like separate people!" at best you have never been to a DID specialist and at worst you are actively making shit up. no therapist tells people to treat their alters as separate people. at most, they tell people to listen to, accommodate, work with, and empathize with their alters. if you cannot tell the difference between someone trying to work with their alters to build a healthier life and someone treating them like they're separate people to be honest thats like. a you problem.
Come here to get your occasional reminder that people don't deserve to lose their lives over having controversial opinions! Heck, they don't deserve to lose their lives over being discriminatory!
They should get the chance to listen, discuss, reflect and grow and you should mirror that sentiment!
So stop sending death threats or harassment. Please. It's not worth bathing in temporary anger when it can be followed by eternal regret. Every life is precious and worth protecting, even ones you don't perceive to be.
I think a lot of grievances people have with what counts as a system and what doesn't would be greatly reduced if they led with the question "Is this person going to functionally share the same experiences as someone I would count as a system?"
Like, it's the same as with queer terminology, really think for yourself "If I don't know what this person calls themself, am I actually going to notice they're not what they would say they are?"
Bwuh... People that don't have a depressive disorder can still get depressive episodes. People that don't have an anxiety disorder can still have frequent anxiety attacks. People that don't have a menstrual condition can still suffer too much from their period to function on some days. People without npd can still cause problems in their relationships because of bad things they did out of insecurity.
People without disorders can still meditate. People without disorders can still do positive self-talk. People without disorders can still use medicine. People without disorders can still benefit from any therapeutic method and still adapt any coping mechanism they need to use to get through an issue.
So why a system, a coping mechanism and/or tool to help you through tough situations or cope with daily struggles in general, cannot be utilized by people who don't specifically have a disorder, is just a mystery to me.
Especially when it becomes a symptom of a CDD due to the system becoming maladaptive. Which as even pwCDD know doesn't always have to be the case for everyone.
It is okay to be scared. It is okay to feel terrified. Being plural isnāt always easy, it takes time to get used to it. Donāt rush your experience and journey with it. Youāre valid in how you feel about it, just donāt do anything to let that hurt you.
sometimes being plural is realizing you're plural (headmate count: 3) then realizing the random voices in your head are also headmates (headmate count: 6) then realizing youve always been plural and those weirdly distinct personalities of yours that you gave names and doodled group pictures of (in your expansive and fantastical headspace no less) four years ago were also headmates and theyre back (headmate count: 9) and then you realize all characters ever are in a city in headspace (same place you go to have imaginary conversations with people you know to help you make decisions) and that when those characters leave the city *they become headmates* (headmate count: at least 12 and possibly 15 or maybe functionally infinite how do i even categorize this)
We're Rain; not really one for introductions, but an open book if you'd ever like to come chat. Our DMs and inbox are open, we always welcome the opportunity to chat ^^
We're mostly going to use this pinned post to keep a somewhat tidy list of our favourite resources for both our benefit and others'.
Resources
Our own writing or opinion posts and conversations are listed first, and we've marked anything we find especially helpful to ourselves or others with a š
Our Writing
Guides and Information
š Headspace Explorations & Resources
š how the fuck to process emotions // how the fuck to be normal about emotions
š Litany Against Impostor Syndrome // We are the Stories We Tell of Ourselves
š Notes on Switching
š System Silence, Blurriness, and Identity Confusion
Communication Tips
Do you ever feel like you're faking?
Recommendations for resources on adaptive systems
Opinions
Filtering advice
On the term "suspected system"
Be kind to persecutors
Hosts are not for every system
Headmate dormancy, death, and grieving
Endogenic systems
Sysmedicalism and toxic syscourse
Hangups and acknowledging members
Sanism and medicalism
š What is real? What is "Correct"? What is "Valid"? What is "Normal"?
Recognising and helping shell headmates
Our System
š From the Shards
Stained Glass / Kintsugi
Worlds of Iron and Glass
Golden Annex
Rise
Wren
Reva, injured
Names
Plurality 101
š More Than One
Do Each of Us Contain Multiples?
š The Constant Companions Handbook
A System's Guide
How We Work
Understanding DID
Communication
š Listening In
š Is Your System Low-Key Screaming for a Check-In?
Questioning, Exploration
A Beginner's Guide to Finding Headmates
Meet Your Inner Selves: Start System Mapping
If you think you might belongā¦
Beyond the Basics: Creative and Practical System Mapping
Litmus Tests
Be Yourselves - All of You
Denial, Doubt, Silence, and Dormancy
š Doubt, Denial, and DID
š Could I really have DID, or am I imagining it?
š Why is it so hard to believe I have DID?
š The Denial Files
š Handling System Silence & Dormancy
Resources & Guides
Grounding Toolkit
A Guide to Internal Signatures
Attachment, Emotion, and Plural Parts Work
Your Emotions Don't Need to be "Fixed"
Switching: Advice and Observations
Fronting v.s. Cofronting (etc; infographics)
Types of Fronting & Switching (infographics)
Managing Psychosis Stress
Voluntary, Involuntary, and Triggered Switching (infographic)
Types of Amnesia
Delusions & Reality Checks (flowchart)
You Feel Like Shit - step by step troubleshooting your mental state
Do it scared? Do it badly? Doing It Alone
On Memory Gaps and Blackout Amnesia
DID Is Not Rare
Hydra (zine)
š When Your Fiercest Part Throws a Chair (Metaphorically?)
š When the Firestarter Thinks They're the Safety Plan
š When Feeling Feels Too Dangerous
Trusting Your System When Youāre Not in the Room
When Sleep is a Distant Galaxy
"Help I'm Frozen" - recovering from freeze states
Surviving DID & OSDD System Overwhelm
When Your System āGoes Rogueā at Work or School
A headmate role in which the headmate acts as a caretaker through rebelling against the harmful ideas and beliefs that other members within their system have internalized. They may also be a careforcer.
Anyone may use this term, anyone can make a flag for this term, we consent to this term being uploaded to pluralpedia.
Princess who says ālet me consult with my advisorsā before staring off into space for a full 30 seconds until she snaps back with a different posture and tone of voice
Other names: Plurifi, Plurifisys, Plurifi collective (etc.)
Definition: This is a descriptor that refers to an individual who is in the process of becoming plural, and whose members are not fully differentiated, independent, or able to switch frequently (etc.) due to this.
An example is a traumagenic system that discovered their multiplicity at an early stage, where alters are not yet fully differentiated but will eventually become so with time.
Etymology:: The combination of the Latin words Pluri and Fi (into Plurifi) could be interpreted to mean "the process of becoming multiple" and the word system
Lime pictures themself as a bird of course but sometimes since.they donāt really speak,, they show us one of those stock images of a person in a suit. Itās like āare these colors okayā then itās
Silver has started doing this except its knights.just knights in random poses to express himself.like he CAN speak.Lime doesnāt normally but Silver can. Heās literally doing this for shits and giggles
animusial: a plural system that has multiple souls or believes themselves to have multiple souls, but who do not believe it is a cause of their plurality.
[PT: animusial: a plural system that has multiple souls or believes themselves to have multiple souls, but who do not believe it is a cause of their plurality. End PT]
A headmate role in which the headmate protects the system in some way through being a mechanical being. This headmate may identify also as alterhuman, nonhuman, holothere, or transspecies.
This term has no DNI, anyone can use this. Anyone can make a flag for this. We consent to this term being uploaded to pluralpedia.
not "pro" or "anti" but a secret third thing (a thinking person who approaches any situation or discourse critically with the ultimate goal of harm reduction over picking "the right" sides)
This is a short post covering an update on our endogenic research document
Medical & Non-Medical (Endogenic) System Sources By Guardians System, a diagnosed traumagenic DID system with PTSD and CPTSD Youāre welcome
"This is a notice: This document was made and written without the use of anything related to generative AI. We are an artist and an anarchist. We donāt support the use of generative AI, nor do we consent to our document being fed to any AI model. This includes being re-uploaded to AI-heavy websites such as Scribd. This document and the posts on our linked accounts are the only official versions of this list. Weāre aware Google, including Google Documents, trains their AI models on content uploaded to their servers. Weāre searching for an alternative host to this document. Unfortunately, most free available alternatives are regarded as inherently fake or falsified."
(^the wording may be subject to change because our system can't agree on anything, but you get the idea /lh )
We've been working on a few similar things, e.g. something covering the "debunk" claim that keeps going around about our document, and other stuff more interesting than that, lol. We are however dealing with some IRL medical issues :) So everything's going to be a bit slow!
As always, if someone has recommendations or suggestions or questions about our document, feel free to let us know through DMs, anon asks, etc.
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