This Is Pluralphobia

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Hello! Welcome to This Is Pluralphobia, the blog which archives examples of pluralphobia/pluralmisia

How Does This Work?

Simply put your experience (or the experience of someone you know) with pluralphobia in the ask box. Examples of pluralphobia in the media also work too

If you’ve got questions about things or are trying to learn stuff, we’ll try to direct you to some good resources. We don’t really have the energy to be an educator right now, just an archivist

We do not do callout posts here, sorry. We also don’t do debates here either

Dictionary:

Pluralphobia/misia: The discrimination and prejudice against plurals

Fictophobia/misia: The discrimination and prejudice against fictionfolk, which includes fictionkind, fictionhearted, fictives, etc.

Sanism: The discrimination and prejudice against those who have, or are perceived to have, mental disorders or cognitive impairment

Endopluralphobia/endopluralmisia: The discrimination and prejudice against endogenic plurals

Anti-polymindence: The discrimination and prejudice against polyminds

Polymindence: A similar community to plurality, consisting of individuals who identify their sub-personalities as unique individuals. Not every polymind considers themself to be plural, but I’m happy to include polyminds in this blog anyway.

About Us:

This blog is run by one system. We are supportive of all types of systems here!!! If you’re going to be mean, we will block you

Our inspirations for making this blog are @this-is-varsexism-transphobia, who we really like and wanna shout out, and this-is-transandrophobia, who was a huge inspiration but we do not like anymore (link)

Side note: we use the terms “pluralphobia” and “pluralmisia” interchangeably. They both refer to the discrimination and prejudice against plurals, but some prefer the suffix -misia to avoid confusion with medical phobias

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I fucking hate anti-endo rhetoric that "endogenics are claiming to have DID without having DID" and adjacent, it's stupid, equates dissosiative disorders with being plural and plurality with dissociation, and is just tooooooo shit to be real. And ableist as fuck. I hate them. Blocking spree unleashed. NOW im actually EVIL. (and i'm traumatized system just non-dissociative non-traumagenic are they stupid to harass traumatized people? they should be fucking grateful I'm just blocking.)

This is pluralphobia and endopluralphobia.

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I wish people could accept some people are plural/have plural-adjacent experiences without being a system necessarily

I wish people could accept some people are plural/have plural-adjacent experiences without having DID

I wish people were nicer

I agree. This is the result of pluralphobia and endopluralphobia.

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Pluralphobia is claiming that pro-endos are on the side of child abusers because “spreading the idea that you can be plural without trauma only benefits child abusers who don’t want to treat a child’s plurality as a sign they did anything wrong”. Or something. I think that’s the argument. I don’t know.

I just know I read it and felt like I was going to throw up. Fuck you. Fuck you. I’m not them. I’m not. I don’t want that.

I felt like I was going to cry.

If we’re spreading conspiracy theories now, I got one. No one who says that shit genuinely believes that the pro-endo movement backs child abuse. It’s solely an attempt to intentionally trigger pro-endo traumagenic CDD systems and compare them to the worst people in their life. As a punishment for betraying what’s supposed to be “their side”.

See how easy this bullshit thing is?

This is pluralphobia and endopluralphobia.

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I think this is both plural solidarity and also internalized pluralphobia.

I’m going tomorrow to have lunch with another plural system.

We met at the ward during my involuntary psychiatric hospitalization. They were incredibly nice to me. They gave me a book to read. The book was technically nothing special, but it kept me somewhat occupied. Which I needed considering how triggering the entire environment was for me. I barely ate there and once had to get an EKG because I was running an abnormal heart rate so consistently during vitals checks. Apparently my heart is perfectly healthy, I’m just scared out of my mind from the very building. Anyway, along with the book, they also snuck me their contact information so I could text them once I got discharged and got my phone back. I’m finally meeting up with them in person outside of the hospital, and it’s so exciting.

The thing is that I haven’t told them I’m plural. Despite having had multiple opportunities to do so. And despite them being relatively open with me about their own plurality.

I sometimes wonder if they suspect that I’m plural. If they already know somehow. My paperwork from the ward lists me as having “depression with psychotic features” despite genuinely making an effort not to talk to myself. So maybe I tipped them off too? Or this is just me making excuses not to tell them.

I feel like I constantly doubt my validity as a plural. Everyone else can be plural. Except me. I’m the one faking or misinterpreting things. Even if I have no reason to be. I tell others that CDDs aren’t necessary to be plural and also that professionals may not spot one if you do happen to have one. Then I get hung up on my DID screening from years ago (done entirely over Zoom btw) where they decided I didn’t have it. I feel like I shouldn’t tell people I’m plural. Because I’m probably lying.

I’m thinking of wearing my plural ampersand symbol necklace to lunch tomorrow. And saying I’m plural if they ask. But I don’t know if I have the guts. I’m scared they’ll react negatively or violently or assume I’m copying them. Even if I have no proof of this. And the evidence points to the contrary.

This is plural solidarity and internalised pluralphobia.

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The amount of people who seem to enjoy shaming systems for not using exclusively medical terminology.

This was spurned by seeing a post lamenting the existence of OSDD-1 systems who call themselves median. Whether they know they have OSDD-1 and just prefer median or whether they are “unaware OSDD-1 systems being tricked into identifying as median when they actually have a disorder”. Interpret that however you will.

But… it’s not just that post. There are so many people whose main problem with Pluralpedia is that the terms there are for the most part not medical. There are people who, having realized that getting people to stop using plural would be basically impossible, have tried to redefine plural as a medical term because “I said it is now”.

I know part of this comes from people believing that plurality cannot exist outside of a disorder in any way shape or form. Which is bad. Obviously. Nondisordered plurality exists. But even with that belief, people seem so aggressive compared to other disorders. Some people with ADHD call it amism instead. Some people with a personality disorder call themselves persodivergent. The schizospec community has a whole bunch of terms coined by the community and outside of strictly medical definitions. Why are CDDs somehow exempt from being able to do this? Or only allowed to do this so long as they don’t stray too far from medical terminology altogether?

I’m trying to be understanding. I’m trying. But they won’t be understanding in return. I really hope I don’t have a CDD. I hope I don’t have a disorder. I hope my plurality doesn’t fall under medical terminology that I then absolutely have to use. I’m really trying not to traumadump here. Although I want to. But I have, to put it mildly, horrible experiences with medical professionals. I don’t want their words. I don’t. I’m plural. That’s it. I don’t want anything else.

This is pluralphobia.

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we (an endogenic system) feel so disconnected from the plural community because our experience differing so much. my alters are real, my trauma is real, but they aren't connected whatsoever and i hate it. i hate that i cant be open and proud about our identity as an endogenic plural. im terrified of harassment for simply being alive and talking about our struggles because our struggles dont feel like enough. part of me wishes we could have been traumagenic, but we feel so much guilt for thinking that way. i just want to connect with my plural peers but i cant and it makes me so sad

sorry this is venty. i cant relate to my own plural friends, even endogenic plurals like myself, and im tired of feeling outcast

This is the result of pluralphobia and endopluralphobia.

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I was slightly afraid to bring this up because it does technically involve shipping discourse but since you got another ask about that I feel I can bring it up.

Pluralphobia is categorizing “shipping headmates/alters within the same system” as a dark/taboo ship.

You can have whatever opinion you want about shipping things that would be deeply unethical irl. Things like incestuous or pedophilic ships or things like shipping a character with their canon abuser. I personally support making that content but I can handle other viewpoints. Regardless, in-sys shipping does not belong in that category at all.

I have seen a blog that was otherwise entirely dedicated to shipping unethical dynamics highlight several ships between alters in a canon system. They even said about the submissions that they didn’t entirely see them as “dark”. THEN STAND BY THAT AND DEFEND SYSTEMS! A relationship that might seem “unorthodox” to singlets isn’t automatically a relationship that has genuine unethical elements to it! And if by your own admission this blog is only for ships that are the latter, you have no reason to include the former unless you think real systems dating their real alters is dangerous or unhealthy.

I have also seen someone (who I’m 99% sure was a singlet) talk about how due to how alters split it was the equivalent of being siblings and so people who shipped a popular in-sys ship were actually shipping incest and should be canceled for it. Which, fuck you. Regardless of your opinion on shipping actual incest, shipping two alters within the same system isn’t shipping incest. If you believe that then you believe the real systems in real in-sys relationships are committing incest. Talk to an actual system for once in your goddamn life before trying to singletsplain DID to a mostly plural fanbase.

This is pluralphobia.

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TW for mentions of death threats

i know this blog is more about the plural community and it doesn't focus on medical dissociative identity disorder or any kind of shipping discourse, but would you consider it pluralphobia or ableism/anti-mental illness if someone told me that i should kill/hurt myself/that i deserve to be retraumatized for writing and reading disturbing fanfiction?

Yeah I’d say so. Even if I’m creeped out by a lot of darkship content (e.g. stuff involving children, inc*st, abusive dynamics) I can give the benefit of the doubt that somebody may be writing them to process their own trauma or as a safe outlet for a paraphilia which would be harmful to act upon in real life. It’s not always pluralphobia or sanism but it can be if you suibait somebody for writing or reading fanfic.

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https://www.tumblr.com/this-is-pluralphobia/818482140537896961/this-might-be-a-hot-takestrange-to-say-but-lowk?source=share

Not the same anon but I have a similar relating thought

Generally I think any kind of gatekeeping for shipping is lowkey kinda pluralphobic because so many different kinds of relationships can happen, regardless of how unconventional they’d be irl. IE, relationships you see in darkships. Since you all share a brain, literally fine, but dare post anything related? If you aren’t in the right circle, or it reaches the wrong one, you’re gonna get flamed. Over relationships within a body’s mind.

This is pluralphobia.

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(I saw someone tweet something around the lines of "Why are aln systems queer and never have any right wing alters", while quoting a queer system...)

This is pluralphobia and queerphobia.

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ive used the label plural on and off for about six months and consistently have only stopped using it when ive felt like im "faking" due to being 100% non traumagenic (to my knowledge). anti endos have never convinced me to become anti endo myself, but they have certainly convinced me to drop plurality as a label because my type of plurality isnt "plural enough."

This is the result of pluralphobia and endopluralphobia.

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People in our school mocked our identity host/core when they were trying to explain things to them. One of the people said "ohh I have multiple personality disorder"

We're a nondisordered mixed origin system.

This is pluralphobia.

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this might be a hot take/strange to say but lowk the hating of mirrorshipping has always come off as subtle hate against plurals…. like. you think it's weird and disgusting to date yourself? any version of yourself? okayy..

Especially because sometimes systems can have multiple introjects of the same character who end up dating!! thats technically selfcest! are they just supposed to never make art of their love??? because its weird and tainted and evil??? sighh

Sorry this is about a specific fandom im in, the creator has selfcest banned in the discord WHICH IS FINE im not saying the creator is a pluralphobe on purpose or anything she can have boundaries on what she wants to see,,, the bad part is that apparently the discord rules also apply to the entire fandom???? And not only is that kind of thinking its whole own can of worms, but i saw a system comment in a post talking about it saying that the thing in the second paragraph happened in their system with some characters from that fandom, and they were scared to ever make art about it or talk about THEIR OWN FICTIVES in THEIR SYSTEM because they risk getting their account banned if too many people see it... i think about that every day.. how is drawing silly little characters kissing themself harmful to anyone in any way?? im so sad... i love that fandom and ive found so many friends through it but i wish the creator was a more understanding person... oh well i guess...

This is pluralphobia and automisia. As a system with quite a few “mirrorships” (due to several headmates being introjects of characters played by a certain actor) yes I would agree.

Also this is a safe space for autosexuals/autophiles (?) and it sucks that the creator has made their fandom unsafe for them and also plurals by extension

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Saw this today and want to rant about it.

I hate that people see belief in exorcisms as a concept as, like, a silly thing (haha, they believe in demons, isn't that funny) or see people who practice or perform them as on par with any other "weird" or "out-there" spiritual or religious belief (looking at you specifically neurotypical antitheists).

Plurals have died, literally died, from being put through abusive exorcism practices to "draw out the demons possessing them". There is no other way to put this. I don't believe there is a way to talk about exorcisms as a business without mentioning this. People have died. Plural people have died. That's what you need to be talking about. I feel like you see exorcisms as a silly/stupid/"crazy religious person ooh" thing, but one that's ultimately harmless.

This is pluralphobia and religious abuse.

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idk if this counts but getting ignored everytime i use proxies in discord, only for the same people to acknowledge me when i use my base account :(

This is pluralphobia.

[this-is-varsexism-transphobia]

Happy pride month to varsex and TGD (trans & gender diverse) folks!

[PT: Happy pride month to varsex and TGD (trans & gender diverse) folks! /End PT]

Happy pride to transfems, gender diverse fems, varsex fems!

Happy pride to transmascs, gender diverse mascs, varsex mascs!

Happy pride to transandrogynes, gender diverse androgynes, varsex androgynes!

Happy pride to transneutrals, cisneutrals, other modality neus, varsex neutrals!

Happy pride to transnulls, cisnulls, other modality nulls, varsex nulls!

Happy pride to transagenrines, cisagenrines, other modality agenrines, varsex agenrines!

Happy pride to transoutherines, cisoutherines, other modality outherines, varsex outherines!

Happy pride to transxenines, cisxenines, other modality xenines, varsex xenines!

Happy pride to transaporines, cisaporines, other modality aporines, varsex aporines!

Happy pride to transmultis, cismultis, other modality multigender & multidirectional folks, varsex multigender & multidirectional folks!

Happy pride to folks with an unlabeled gender!

Happy pride to culturally gendered folks!

Happy pride to dysex, ersex, and altersex folks!

Happy pride to intersex folks with ambiguous genitalia, ambiguous reproductive organs, or "mixed" characteristics!

Happy pride to intersex folks with urethral or penile traits!

Happy pride to intersex folks on the agenital or areproductive spectrum!

Happy pride to intersex folks on the split/duplicated reproductive or genital spectrum!

Happy pride to intersex folks with hormonal variations!

Happy pride to intersex folks with chromosomal variations!

Happy pride to intersex folks who don't know what their variation is!

And as a final note- this pride month, please start encouraging people to:

-Call non-binary people enbies/enben instead of "they/thems." Non-binary people are more than just pronouns, and not all of them use those pronouns anyways!

-Stop misusing AFAB/AMAB language [link]! AFAB/AMAB does not describe anatomy or socially imposed gender! It only describes an event at birth. Let's encourage more inclusive language!

-Stop perpetuating that intersex = third sex. Intersexuality is a wide spectrum!

-Stop using intersexist slurs (the h-slur, the fu-slur) and misusing the term intersex! Use proper terminology, like cosexual, dualsex, duomorphic, altersex, etc! [link]

[PT: And as a final note- this pride month, please start encouraging people to:

-Call non-binary people enbies/enben instead of "they/thems." Non-binary people are more than just pronouns, and not all of them use those pronouns anyways!

-Stop misusing AFAB/AMAB language [link]! AFAB/AMAB does not describe anatomy or socially imposed gender! It only describes an event at birth. Let's encourage more inclusive language!

-Stop perpetuating that intersex = third sex. Intersexuality is a wide spectrum!

-Stop using intersexist slurs (the h-slur, the fu-slur) and misusing the term intersex! Use proper terminology, like cosexual, dualsex, duomorphic, altersex, etc! [link] /End PT]