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the chances of having formed an alter from a comfort series when you were a kid is low but never zero - ✨

DNSKSJMAJbs DOING THIS

1) Aust probably 😔😔😔 HE HAD A CRUSH ON ARTY (our RF! Wally fictive) A FEW MONTHS BEFORE ARTY ADOPTED HIM 💀

2) Eteled.

3) BARB 😨😨 (would willingly become the frog or not mind becoming one)

4) FAIRY COW PILLOW CAUSE THAT'S THE ONE I HAD AS A KID -🙃

5) Either me, Flowey, or Zero...

6) ME‼️‼️‼️‼️(no idea how long I've been at front)

7) Ummmmm for well known, probably our Welcome Home and TADC fictives- For obscure?? Ummmmmm probably our OCtives (literally only our closest friends know about their source)

8) BETA 100% (hates bugs and will scream out in terror if one touches him) (Alan is the complete opposite and loves bugs)

9) FILE. HE WOULD LOVE CLUBS.

system ask game except the questions are moderately unhinged

🐠 who has the strangest fictional crush?

🦀 who is the BRITISH one

🐬 most likely to be turned into a frog by an evil witch :(

🦑 which pillow pet are you (current fronter)

🐳 who says y’all unironically

🐙 who’s the best at fronting (interpret this how you will)

🪼 who has the most obscure source? who has the most well known?

🐡 who’s the most insect adjacent. either in the little guy way or the EEEAAAAGHHHTKGJF FNN KILL IT way

🐟 who should be at the club rn

OC Posting . I Totally Don't have DID what are you talking about

"I don't wanna talk to you, i wanna talk to [insert specific alter]!" I'm hitting you with my car

Do you have any DID books? Especially fiction!!

Oh my gOSH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK THIS

AAAAAA, YES!!!!! Unfortunately I don’t have much fiction :(

Books we've read (and now own)

The Girl from the Treehouse & Beyond the Treehouse by Gudrun Frerichs (Women of our Time duo) - fiction, told from multiple perspectives in one body (MC is a DID system). Gudrun Frerichs is a retired a psychologist who worked with DID in NZ

The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes & George Blair-West - non fiction

'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'

All of Me by Kim Noble - non fiction

“It didn't matter that so much of what they said made logical sense- or that I couldn't find any more plausible alternatives. I didn't have multiple personalities, I just didn't - and that was that.”

We'll only buy books when we really love them; as is probably obvious by the number of sticky tabs in The Girl in The Green Dress..we've read it a lot.

I swear there were way more but they haven't been noted down and now I'm confused where they've gone 😭

Sub category: Books we read and seriously don't recommend

The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno

Books we want to read

We haven't had an opportunity to read these yet but would like to

When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase

Tonee: Life with Disassociative Identity Disorder by Robert Becker

Yet Another Alice Fallen by Clair Itey

Brain Storm: A life in Pieces by Dr Shelly Kolton

The Sum of My Parts by Olga Trujillo

An Apparently Normal Person by Bonnie R. Armstrong

Dear Little Ones series by Jade Miller

Rings of Saturn by Xyloh Yugen

The Patchwork Quilt by J. D. Clark

My Mommy has Multiple Parts by Joh Knyn

We have been working on collecting all our trauma and mental health books into one Goodreads shelf - it's taking a while but here's a link anyway

Feel free to reply or reblog with more recommendations! We’re always looking for more DID books (or just general mental health or just book reccs y'all, hit us with 'em)

*sigh* just a friendly reminder that PluralKit attaches a unique code to your system that allows anyone to look up your system - and if you look up a system on discord using pk;system [code], gives a link to all of their public system data on PKs website, which for some of you includes information on triggers, sexuality, and other things that cyberbullies may misuse.

I have been messing around with the settings as much as possible and I cannot find a way to avoid this beyond privating all alters and all system info, which many users don't do.

Even with information privated, it still seems that PK will link your discord handle with your Pluralkit user if the unique code is plugged in.

Sharing as this seems to me like a breach of privacy at best, and dangerous at worst.

For anyone wondering how to format SimplyPlural

Bios and custom fields with markdown support enabled use these commands

Allowing you to do things like this (and a LOT more)

Privacy buckets are now readily available on SimplyPlural for all users, just make sure your app has updated to the latest version :)

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Important link: https://docs.apparyllis.com/docs/help/features/buckets/intro

Lying to keep your system safe.

I've lied to multiple agencies stating we have OSDD rather than DID.

Our local support agents, especially financial ones, tend to label DID as clinically insane and unsafe; we say we have DID and people often make up their minds based on inaccurate and outdated stereotypes. We don't waste our breath advocating for ourselves when we will only meet someone once or twice and opinion is already set in stone based on a three letter acronym.

Our psychologist encourages us to do so. He's written letters on my behalf with the same set of information/symptoms/reccomendations, but saying OSDD & PTSD rather than DID & PTSD. The slight seperation in social perception between 'this person has multiple personalities' and 'this person has periods of disassociation and these other symptoms' is often enough to prevent stigma filled responses.

Other situations where lying or changing details may be wise

If a stranger is being overly pushy regarding your system information especially if they are targeting vulnerable alters.

Online - often avoiding posting full alter counts or details that may trigger others (positive or negative) to front is wise, especially on public forums like Reddit and Tumblr

As many of you know, we use psyudeonums to avoid any links being drawn between our online presence and our private life. Singlets use psyudeonums, as can systems/individual alters.

Stating system origin and syscourse stances can, and unfortunately often, leads to harassment and unfair treatment from all sides of the conversation. Sometimes it's safer not to state it.

If someone is making you uncomfortable with questions; you are well within your right to block them. Minors especially, if your gut says no, listen.

You don't owe the world your system's information, and omitting the truth can be the safest way to keep that private. Hell, we can count on a hand how many people know we are a system in our personal life.- let alone anything more detailed.

In an ideal world, no system would have to do that.

We aren't in an ideal world.

So I leave you with this: sometimes it's okay to lie or omit the truth to keep your system safe. Especially in places where stigma runs rampant or you don't know who you're speaking with very well. Just, do me a solid and try not to lie to your psychs, 'kay?

Sending love and hugs,

System dad, Kyle 💜

Yo, we do that! On discord we have our own plural kit profiles, as well as a "multiple people said this" profile and a "no clue who said this" profile. We used to try to figure out who said what all the time, but it's so much easier and less stressful to not do so.

we've made a discovery about ourselves recently and I just wanted to make a public post about it in case a fellow p-did system could find it useful. or even other systems!

tl;dr is in bold, but context of the whole post is also necessary

The thing with being a Partial DID system, is that there is, most likely, only one frontier and others are only able to take control of the body while the host is still fully conscious. at least that's the case for us. And training ourselves to be like other systems with distinct switching is a Long and Frustrating effort

we think a lot about the "influence on host" part of it all, and I think we came up with an alternative that works for us. 100% we're not the first and won't be the last to come up with this, but of anyone finds this Helpful it's worth talking about it

the long and short of it is: if you as a system struggle with letting others front, but find yourselves doing/saying some things in unison with no clear distinction of who takes "credit" for the action, this might be a good alternative to being fully in front.

we call this blending, speaking in unison, or speaking in legion! what happens to us is that, me and someone who fronts mix together on a conscious level (while still being two distinct alters, we're not blurring or fusing exactly). and just allow ourselves to do something at the exact same time without figuring out Who exactly thought of this first

it's kind of a very uneven mix. we can tell when someone's speaking separately too, so this Somehow doesn't make us doubt ourselves (so far). additionally it puts the weight off others shoulders when it comes to joining external conversations all on their own.

we think this might be a Very Good way of allowing others to take control and have a say in our collective life, and it might help other systems too

One thing I hate more than people outright saying that endos are 'invalid' are the people who are like 'oh they're just in denial of their trauma if they're really systems!' because it's so backhanded. It's painted as though it's in good faith, but it's still denying the existence of an entire group of systems that they clearly don't want to understand. It's condescending: "it's okay, you're just in denial! You'll figure it out soon!" It's a downright wolf in sheep's clothing situation. Even if it's certainly possible for an endo system to realize they're actually mixed origin or even strictly traumagenic, it's so pretentious to assume every endogenic system is just a traumagenic system in denial or they're faking.

Woe, art be upon ye

Id say this is from june-july ish? I have a long ass braid. Maybe Ill tell yall why at somepoint sksk

Throws this towards you at high speeds

Alcohol marker drawingsssssss, sometime mid august I believe

Have a doodle of myself that I made I dont remember when

idkidk the place to ask but you seem knowledged a bit on system stuff and not like.. gatekeepy on experiences but i'm a questioning system and was wondering if its possible when a fictive splits and forms they come with like pre-knowledge on a langauge that the body/shared brain doesn't really speak or know that well spare from the most basic words?

or am i just. going through it /nav

Oh heya! You caught us at our 'blasting Vocaloid at full volume directly into our eardrums at 1am hours' skjhdskjdfhj /silly

And we love answering and helping others with this type of stuff! So you, and anyone else with questions, can come to our inbox for help :]

Anyways, yes that is entirely possible and has happened with us and others! We have fictives that know languages from source, whether they be real or fictional languages, that the body doesnt know much about. When that happens, depending on the headmate, they will either be confined to speaking the language in headspace, or if they want to speak/type that language in the body, theyll get translators; though we also have friend systems (and one of our partner systems) have been able to speak it bodily a little despite not really having much knowledge of the language previously. Its pretty cool, if a bit disorienting. We have a few headmates that can only speak/type if they use translators, or need another headmate to translate what they are saying in headspace.

For us personally, we have weird amnestic barriers with certain things regarding the body, so when theyre getting a translator to type in a language the body doesnt really know, they are usually the only one aware of the body doing that. Of course, you usually start to absorb knowledge of said language the more they speak/type it. We can read the enderian script pretty well now due to a few headmates in our own and other systems that use it, and morse code is another thing we're slowly learning. We want to learn other languages bodily, like Spanish and Russian, so they feel more comfortable and have that option without being confined to translators.

Tl;dr, yes it is entirely possible and a fairly common experience to have :]

I hope this helps! And our dms are always open if ya need it

came back wrong but its from the perspective of the person who came back

Hi, hope these sort of asks are okay but I just seen something about language? So aaa sorry for the ramble! We feel the need to explain:

I think we may be a P-DID/OSDD-1A system but I feel like we still have a sort of introject based on real/fictional people. Which is it possible? I heard the term for -1a and p-DID systems it’s like “facets” or “fabelings” but idk, I know that both myself and two others in our little space took on identities that brought us more comfort than “Sad Kevin.” “work Kevin”, etc sort of thing. I personally feel I am Dr. Iceberg, I have pseudomemories and just I know a take on an “adult” “work sort of deal.

Time to over explain! but We’re usually always very blurry sometimes sharing this metaphysical steering wheel or someone’s being a sort of backseat driver (car analogy is how we explain our experience). Our memories aren’t good and our host/main person (idk terms) he said he usually feels like he’s watching everything in a dream like state. If that makes sense. :p just, is it possible for us as osdd-1a to have introjects based on others? I feel like others will call us out for “faking.” Or worse :(( we do plan to talk to a therapist when we have the funds and feel safe in doing so but you seem very knowledgeable and safer to ask. /gen.

Hello there! I think you may have gotten the term mixed up a little bit. You can use whatever is most comfortable for you, but Facets is a term more commonly used for median systems rather than multiple systems.

Regardless, yes, it is entirely possible to have introjects in a P-DID/OSDD-1A system. We know lots of those types of systems with introjects! As far as Im concerned, most every type of system can have introjects if they feel thats what they are.

I know there are cases of a brainmade alter 'becoming' an introject, its a little hard to explain, but my personal understanding of it is this happens either through fusing with fragments, or kinning becoming something a little more personal to that headmate.

The car analogy is a great way to decribe your experiences! If you want to know some terms for those, fronting is when a headmate is in control of the body, co-fronting is kind of a secondary to that, and then co-consious is when your sort of watching, but may still be able to do things like type or speak with the body to communicate. Theres also passive influence, which is when said alter is not aware of whats going on in front, but may still affect what happens.

It made us really happy that yall trust us enough to ask about this stuff, even just on anon. I hope this helps! And dont listen to anyone that tries to fakeclaim you. I hate fakeclaimers, so much. Yall know whats going on with yallselves the best. Stay safe out there anon.

Feel free to come to our inbox again, or dms if yall are comfortable. And this goes for everyone, we love talking about this kind of stuff and answering it. :]

New pfp just dropped

I feel bad for asking…again same “language anon”, found out we have a artyom after the confirmation! Been here for a bit but was a “irl” which uhhhh leads me to also ask if at all possible if it’s normal to mistake headmates as “high level kins” or even “irls”?

Because with us there’s a lot of blur, a lot of co-con, co-front, we’re still very much questioning (at least osdd) and just, there’s a big chance some of our “irls” and very high-level ID kins might be headmates, like Artyom (his source from Metro 2033).

Has you, anyone else, etc experienced similar? Or am I just silly

Cheers!

- 🛰️

Hi again! :] Glad to see ya around

As for an answer to your question, yes this is entirely possible, and something that I would say is an integral part of the system experience. Us and a lot of systems we know have gone through a very similar thing.

And I would like to add on, that you can be both. You can have both that headmate and also have another person be kin of the same person. You can even have system wide Kins/IRLs/IDs! We have a few of those, one of collective IRLs being Alto Clef for. Obvious reasons ajkaakajadhskjs. Hell, I myself have my own kin list somewhere that I could probably dig up if ya wanted an example

Kintrojects are also a thing! Which is where you split someone based on a kin, hence the name

I hope this answers your questions, and like always, dont be afraid to send in asks if you need any more help :]

"Trauma builds character!"

Well unfortunately for me it actually managed to build several