Actually You Know What . Appreciation Post Bc As A Traumagenic System Who Splits Involuntarily, Frequently,

Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

this is going viral on the tweeter currently so. for you also. miku is not ai!!

plural culture is being a relatively small system then going on school break and experiencing massive system growth and getting very involved with plural communities and mostly shifting to thinking in we/us and being scared to slip up at school when you go back

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Since Plural Pride Day and Moon Landing Day fall on the same date, I have decided that the Moon is plural. Yep, that's right. The Moon is a median system and each of her phases is a different headmate. Aren't we all so lucky to have a celebrity so open and proud to be herself and show off all her headmates' individual styles? We should appreciate her more

Please. I want to be a creature.

SYSTEM / ALTERS ALTERNATIVE TERMS

[ 🧪 ] SCIENTIST THEMED

[ system ] — laboratory, study, observatory, amalgamation, department, cranium, organism, test site, cerebrum, nucleus, composite, datum, synthesis

[ alters ] — experiments, tests, chemicals, subjects, labrats, reactions, atoms, vials, beakers, cells, variables, theories, particles, synapses, hypotheses, creations, modules, molecules

( @disrealities was the epic inspiration btw really cool system terms )

names: Alice / Arya / Heaven/ Isa / Iris

Nicknames: Angel, holly girl, sea baby

honorifics: Sister, sissy, lady

pronouns: she/her ae/aer angel/angelself an/gel

orientation: Aegoromantic, Asexual

other identity: angelkin

species: human/angel/angelkin

age: 18

personality: dreamy, spacey, kind, bubbly, sweet, and kind.

likes: taking care of new headmates, being positive, meditating, and daydreaming

role: Adopter, Aegir, beauheur, buffer, coltenoir, comforter, daydream holder

LGBTQIA+ Wiki

Aegoromantic

your support for people’s trans identities should not bank on whether they are “ able ” to transition or not。

if someone does not have the resources to transition ,

if someone does not have the energy to transition ,

if someone does not want to take the risks of transitioning ,

if someone is scared of transitioning ,

if it is an identity that is “““ biologically ””” or , in some other form , unable to be transitioned to { im looking at you , anti transrace ++ anti transabled ++ anti transage folkel , who commonly use this argument }

they should be supported in their identity regardless。

likewise , if someone wants to transition and it does not nonconsensually harm people ,

they should not be judged。

transabled people developing symptoms , transracial people changing their appearance , etcetera , are not harming people by transitioning。

it is not for you to decide if the way someone transitions is harmful or not , it is not for you to decide if the way someone wants to transition is possible or not。

@funnier-as-a-system

Hey! Do you use terms for your system besides "headmate", "alter", or "facet"? This post is for you!

Shoutout to:

Systems that use the term "system member" or "sysmate"!

Those who choose "part", "piece", or "aspect"!

The ones out there who use "pluralian", "pluralment", and "pluret" are so cool!

"Ceter" is unique and lovely!

"Walk-ins" and "spirits" deserve just as much space as anyone else!

Even the ones who see their members as "personalities" are welcome here!

And anyone else who uses a non-typical system term!

We love all of you so, so much! We wish you& the best of days, no matter what you choose to call yourselves!

🖤💜💙💚💛