misfits

Hellooo! I’m Misfit, Riven, or Harlow. I use they/xe/he/ask pronouns :)

Our system name is The Mosaic Mirage

This is my main blog where I post random things, but my active blog is @fandoms-a-circus

I have DID, autism, ADHD, and a few other things and I might post about that sometimes.

misfits.circus on discord

OKAY OKAY UM

First of all, you should definitely watch them if you can. They’re kids movies and Disney Channel movies, so they aren’t like… fantastic by most standards, but they’re really good for what they are! (Except the fourth one, it’s… eh…)

Max Hatter is the grandson of the Mad Hatter and son of Maddox Hatter, the villain in the fifth movie. He’s a loser and I love him. I have so many thoughts that I can’t even put them into words dhdidbkwhfeikw

He’s basically the product of time travel by the main characters. In the original time line, he was adored by his father and a bit of a nerd, BUT he lived under a tyrant who executed almost anyone who upset her (aka the Queen of Hearts.) After the time lines were changed he grew up on the Isle of the Lost which is where all the villains were sent and like. Starved and neglected. And also his dad in this timeline is insane and neglectful! Yay.

The only thing we have in common is both terms describing something based on fiction.

Being a fictive isn’t an identity for me or for most of our other introjects. I exist like this because a twelve year old went through something so traumatic that the current coping mechanisms they had weren’t enough to deal with it so their brain latched on to something that brought them comfort and made them feel safer. That has nothing to do with someone who identifies has a fictional character or who believes they were a fictional character in a past life.

I see most of this coupling of terms in general plural and pro endo spaces and that has led me to conclude that this is another example of endogenics treating actual disordered symptoms and behaviors like an identity. It feels as though this is them bastardizing one of the more “fun” or “interesting” parts of this disorder without fully understanding what it is or the reason it happens. Which is upsettingly common in these spaces.

It’s yet another form of ableism towards those with CDDs that has yet to be addressed or unpacked broadly by the system community. I don’t expect it to be even realized, though, as the general system community thrives off of this specific form of ableism, on both pro and anti endo sides. On the pro side of the community, they don’t acknowledge ableism for what it is because do not view systems as symptoms of CDDs and thus inherently disordered. On the anti side, they rarely acknowledge fictives being anything more than offshoots of a fictional character, but still claim to know fictives aren’t actually their source.

It’s a symptom of a disorder caused by trauma. No one else has experienced the exact same trauma as you. Thus, no one else is going to have the exact same presentation of symptoms as you. We’re all individuals. The only thing all of us have in common is that we have a dissociative disorder.