did system

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Bonus question:

don't care ab being in system communities and don't interact with other systems.

need validation from system communities and interact lots with other systems.

systems who are neutral about the system community

systems who are actively trying to make the system community better

Okay but do you support the people whose disorders do define them?

Do you support people with the chronic illnesses who have had to develop whole lives around their conditions? Do you support the intellectually disabled people whose whole way of thinking is defined by their disorder? Do you support the people with personality disorders who literally have a disorder as a personality? Do you support the autism/ADHD people whose disorder you can’t separate from who they are? Do you support the DIDOSDD people who have multiple definitions of themselves because of their disorder?

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Type 1: The typical representation and most agreed definition of a subsystem, where there are more alters inside one of them.

Type 2: A group of alters that can come and go to specific places that the majority could not, this can also apply to clarity in communication too.

Type 3: A group of splitted alters that came from the same one, because they have the same origin thus can have similarities or sense of connection.

Type 4: A group of alters that does not come from the same origin, but formed as a subsystem due to similarities, or connection, or any other classification such as roles, or source, or literally anything else.

EDIT: detailed post on explaining these four types right here. Updated on 19 feb

I have a high alter count, but the vast majority of them are extremely one dimensional. Maybe they encompass a certain feeling, or have a very specific interest or identity. Out of the high number of parts we have, I'd say only like... maybe 8 are really fully fleshed out to the extent of having full identities, likes, dislikes, and enough life experience to have certain memories of these things. Most of us are just shallow trauma holders.

when your family is looking through old photos together and you dissociate *so* heavily bc that wasn’t *you*, that was a previous version of you, and they are locked away deep inside, and you have no or only vague memory of ever existing in that state

anyways. hazy now

Fictives are not a sign of faking.

Quiet/Loud switches are not a sign of faking.

Large systems are not a sign of faking.

Switching a lot is not a sign of faking.

Not switching much is not a sign of faking.

Emotional amnesia is still amnesia.

Don't force people to address trauma they may not even remember.

Don't force people to remember trauma.

Childhood traumas don't have to be what an adult would consider extreme. Kids are a lot more sensitive to stimuli and cruelty.

And some systems have done fucked up shit in their childhoods, it's not their fault they had to survive.

Somtimes blurry means we don't feel like anyone at all

Sometimes blurry means we're someone, but they're new or unknown so we can't tell

Sometimes blurry means there's a mix of a few of us and it's easier to just say we're blurry

i don’t plan on ever being publicly out about my dissociative disorder in a non anonymous setting. i have a hard time even talking about my parts in therapy even to the clinician that diagnosed me with DID. it feels unbearably vulnerable and not safe to tell people about my parts. i feel like we’re seeing more and more people on tik tok start talking publicly about their DID, and while that may be very helpful for them, i honestly can’t imagine ever being fully out with it like that. keeping it secret is what has kept me safe, it is how i survived the last twenty years of my life. my experience with DID also does not line up with most of the DID content i’ve seen online— and i don’t mean this to invalidate those whose experiences are different than mine, it’s just that it can feel really lonely and isolating to have a dissociative disorder that doesn’t fit with the worlds preconceived image of what a dissociative disorder looks like. this is part of why i typically just say that i have dissociative disorder instead of DID.