hey systems I would advise you to keep a certain number of things out of your bio because OSDDID inherently says a lot about your past and triggers so there are certain details only your close friends should know, and not just anyone perusing the internet
your age - predators are more than happy to fake their age to match yours. Being young and plural are unfortunately traits prone to manipulation
your headcount - aside from assholes fakeclaiming you, people can take it and use it against you.
who your trauma holders are, and, more generally, the roles of your alters. it's basically telling abusers who to target and who to avoid
any information about your littles whatsoever. For all the world knows, you have none. same with who age regresses.
any system descriptors beyond DID/OSDD1/PDID/etc. the internet does not need to know if you have complex DID or something like that; it's your trauma.
what your triggers are. people will try to trigger you on purpose. this includes front triggers
all your other disorders, particularly personality disorders - abusers can try to make you dependent, "favorite" them, avoid others, etc.
These aren't rules, and there are obviously different situations that call for different levels of privacy. Just use your judgment: who can see this? anyone who came across my blog or people I friended on simply plural? trusted friends on simply plural? Systems are very vulnerable to further abuse because of their fragmentation and trauma mindsets. Don't let anyone take advantage of that.
this post is going around again so I'd just like to add that a lot of these come from personal experience and are very much applicable even if them seem paranoid or extra
I've had people use knowledge of our headcount and splitting patterns to try and get us to split (very traumatized) fictives. sometimes it worked. for our own safety, we never made that fictive's data public and never mentioned that they split. If someone wants you to split a specific character or person, especially one abused by their fictive in source, that is a bad sign.
obviously this is a personality disorder account, and obviously certain friends knew this about me. certain friends also tried to make me dependant on them, make me cut off others because "our alters just get along with yours the best." they have tried to force codependency by "coincidentally" having our fictives' partners, family members, or friends in source. people have tried to instill a false sense of security by saying you know me, you love me, you are just like me. Someone asking you to trust them based on source alone is a bad sign.
it's been a little over a year since I originally posted this, and I as a person and as a system have changed a lot since then. rereading what I posted here is like reading a diary entry; there was a reason I posted this, and I hope that gives people a reason to consider their safety online. especially younger systems—trust me, guys, people will use whatever they can if they know it's a tool. Don't give them that.
















