anti-endos stay out of inclusive plural spaces challenge
*throws trauma in the air because that makes me valid uwu apparently*
Endogenics arenāt pushing their way into anyoneās community. Theyāve always been here. The new kids on the block who find comfort in treating the DSM-5 ā no, not even the DSM-5, did-research.org ā like a holy book are trying to push them out.
Words like āpluralā and āmultipleā are about as far from medical terminology as you can get. āSystemā is used in psychology, but it refers to any parts of anyoneās psyche (e.g. Internal Family Systems). Itās true that for awhile, those with MPD were called multiples, but MPD was changed to DID/OSDD because āmultiple personalitiesā came too close to implying that people alters like me are people. MPD also included those experiencing multiplicity without distress ā and they existed then and now, as even garbage psychiatrists like Colin Ross recognized ā so āmultipleā belongs to all of us, because it was used to pathologize all of us.
Plurality has appeared across many cultures, in many forms, for thousands of years. āBut spirit possession isnāt DID!ā you say. And youāre right. But it can be, according to the DSM-5, because interpreted as a purely scientific phenomenon itās perfectly analogous if it causes distress and amnesia. And many who live with what they interpret as spirits identify as plural.
Many who otherwise share their bodies with others identify as plural.
Gateway, endogenic, parogenic (tulpamancy), and quoigenic systems, with some inevitable exceptions, donāt claim to have DID.
They claim to be plural. They claim to be multiple. Multiple is and for decades has been an umbrella term for all those who share their bodies with other people. When psychiatry took two steps sideways, non-traumagenic systems remained, and they and their traumagenic allies have stood together since the dawn of the internet to create an inclusive community that will not falter.
You are exclusively entitled to a āperson with DIDā and āperson with OSDDā community, using the words of a psychiatric establishment whose language equates me and those like me with parasites. And because the plural community is inclusive, youāre also entitled to identify as multiple and plural.
But you are not entitled to demand that a longstanding community warp itself to include you and onlyĀ you. Because the plural community isnāt about having DID or OSDD; itās about being plural.
If you donāt like the inclusive community, stay out of it. Youāre not required to interact. Block us. Stay out of #endogenic, #quoigenic, etc., and Plural Hub, and create your own community. Believe me, we wonāt want a part in it.
And endogenics and other non-traumagenic systems: you belong. Systems like you have been part of the plural community since long before the DSM-5 and its predecessor and, with any luck,Ā long after the psychiatric establishment stops pathologizing identity.