System blog

Note apps and apps that help you keep things as organized as possible are a very individual thing and quite frankly we haven't found many good ones, so... There won't be too many of those here, apologies. We actually still like to use phone widgets for quick notes or to-do lists that we literally have to have stuck on our forehead (metaphorically) to not forget them.

Other than that we've used daylio in the past, which was pretty good but not quite what we would have wanted out of it (we have terribly high standards though), as well as a diary app.

Please feel free to add onto the list, the more the merrier!

【 General 】

Simply plural - This app is so versatile! No wonder it gets recommended a lot. It feels like everything people could possibly need already and the creators still seem to update it frequently. We personally love that you can send any of your SP data to your mail in form of a document, brilliant, and now with the added chat function, what doesn't this app have!? Even if you dislike certain visual interface choices, maybe check up on it every now and then, it could be that it may look different from when you last used it or new features could make the whole experience more enjoyable. It also has a web function.

Antar - Though seemingly created as a therapeutic self development tool, Antar doubles up as a wonderful organization tool with it's beautiful flowchart feature! There are still some kinks hereabd there, but it seems to be pretty solid. You can customize it so much, it works perfectly fine for systems. Sadly it doesn't seem as frequently updated currently.

【 Personal spaces and ways to communicate as yourself 】

PhotoNote [ and other Instagram apps] - Is Instagram something you like from a visual standpoint? Are you just wanting a personal space, like a digital picture book for each and every single one of you and aren't gung ho about being part of the dreadful social media treadmill? Then maybe this app is something you'll enjoy!

TwiNote [and other fake Twitter apps] - Do you enjoy Twitter aesthetically but are bugged by the experiences on there? Or want to vent tweet shout out your unfiltered thoughts without any bad consequences? Well, if it's not about the validation from stranger's liking your post sand just wanting a personal space to shout your heart out to, this might be a good solution?

Mytter - SNS style app, like the two previous examples. Good communication tool and which one you prefer or end up using is probably mostly an aesthetic choice.

PluralKit [Or other discord bots] - Which of course means having discord in and of itself beforehand is a requirement, otherwise getting the bot would be entirely useless. You can by the way also make private servers and having a system server is something many people enjoy!

【 To find or make references 】

Pinterest - Great for finding pictures of absolutely anything for absolutely anything! Aesthetics galore!

Picsart - One of the best free editing apps we could find out there. Now any other one will do as well, but it really offers so much, wow!

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✨ Having trouble thinking outside the box because of one-track thinking (plus years of conditioning from school) 

✨ Struggling with answers that most people think are simple because you think it has to be done a certain way (again, one-track thinking) 

✨ That specific ADHD & Autistic mood where you have intense special interests but they come and go periodically, so you don't hyperfixate on something for long 

✨ Slow Processing Speed, especially where your brain is fast but your body struggles to keep up with it so you can't react physically in time for most things

✨ Having facial expressions that always seem a little flat or stilted regardless of how strong your emotions actually are

✨ Gastrointestinal Issues (which are actually very common with Autism) 

✨ Poor Volume Control, like being totally oblivious when you're too loud or too quiet

✨ Having a hard time reading both tone and volume, such as feeling like someone is yelling at you based on their tone of voice instead of the volume

✨ Thinking in pictures or having a very visual, audio or physical-based learning style and ONLY being able to learn like that 

✨ Saying things that sound good to you in your head, but that seem inappropriate or weird to everyone else

✨ Unusual sense of humor that rarely lands with neurotypicals

✨ Good long term memory for things related to your special interests, but being unable to remember important things like appointments

✨ Very high or low pain tolerance

✨ Being hypersensitive to some stimulus and hyposensitive to others, possibly even both for the same sense depending on the situation

✨ Skin picking, hair pulling and other non- suicidal self injury, particularly when under stimulated or anxious

✨ Not getting jokes

✨ Not understanding phrases, like how when I was a kid I thought rolling your eyes meant rolling them all the way around in a circle

✨ Needing a guardian or help with seemingly simple daily activities

✨ Feeling the need to over explain everything so you're not as likely to be misunderstood

✨ How everything feels louder, brighter and genuinely painful when overstimulated and during a meltdown

✨ Talking too fast or too slow 

✨ Having your mind run so fast that your physical body can't keep up so you end up messing up words or phrases because you're brains too fast for your mouth

✨ Being legitimately unable to participate in conversation if there's too much background noise or you're distracted in some way. Like how in school I would say something completely different than what I was planning to say because people were talking in the background.

I'll probably add more to this later!

Trauma that is common is still trauma.

Trauma that you can't remember is still trauma.

Trauma that you CAN remember is still trauma.

Trauma that was physical is still trauma.

Trauma that was psychological is still trauma.

I urge you to read the DSM-V diagnostic criteria for DID. if you are experiencing amnesia of any kind, you most likely have DID, not OSDD-1b. 

this is a quote directly from the DSM-V criteria:

“Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.”

it does not say that you need blackout switching amnesia, or even any kind of switching amnesia at all. do you frequently find yourself unable to clearly remember everyday events? that’s amnesia. 

and guess what? amnesia from childhood does count as dissociative amnesia! here’s another quote directly from the DSM-V:

“The dissociative amnesia of individuals with dissociative identity disorder manifests in three primary ways: as 1) gaps in remote memory of personal life events (e.g., periods of childhood or adolescence; some important life events, such as the death of a grandparent, getting married, giving birth) …”

this means that, yes, amnesia from your childhood (that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting) is dissociative amnesia.

still think that your amnesia isn’t bad enough? check out this quote which is - you guessed it - also from the DSM-V:

“Individuals with dissociative identity disorder vary in their awareness and attitude toward their amnesias. It is common for these individuals to minimize their amnestic symptoms.”

it’s all too common for people to minimize their symptoms, and amnesia is yet another symptom that is commonly minimized. 

lastly, I’d like to show you the DSM-V’s definition of OSDD-1:

“Chronic and recurrent syndromes of mixed dissociative symptoms: This category includes identity disturbance associated with less-than-marked discontinuities in sense of self and agency, or alterations of identity or episodes of possession in an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia.”

I have italicized the part that refers to OSDD-1b. you’ll note that it doesn’t say “an individual who reports a little bit of dissociative amnesia”. it says “an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia.”

therefore, if you are experiencing dissociative amnesia, you more than likely have DID. it’s okay if your amnesia isn’t “severe” or if you don’t have blackout amnesia - that doesn’t mean you don’t have DID.

sincerely,

a DID system that used to think he was a OSDD-1b system but then realized that, oh shit, not remembering anything before you’re 10 is actually not normal, and neither is having your memories of recent events being super blurry and difficult if not impossible to recall. whoops.

1. It's extremely normal to have no idea who you are, especially the larger your system is. Most people with DID don't always have super clean-cut switches and influence is a thing.

2. A lot of systems have far more than the supposed 10-15 average number of parts.

3. DID isn't that rare; it's got a very similar prevalence rate to BPD and is about 3x as common as schizophrenia. It's underdiagnosed and frequently misdiagnosed as other things by inexperienced or ignorant clinicians.

4. Alters can't die. They can go dormant or fuse but it's impossible for a part of your mind to die.

5. It's extremely normal to have a headspace that isn't that vivid or detailed. Plenty of people can't fully access their headspace, and don't have realistic memories of being there as if it were a real place. For many it's a visualization.

6. Complex relationships between alters are very common, whether they're familial, friendships, or even romantic or sexual.

7. Not being able to remember trauma is basically half the point of the disorder, but it doesn't mean that trauma didn't happen to cause it. DID/OSDD is a medical condition that develops alongside PTSD, not a neurotype.

8. Not all alters will have a noticeably different way of speaking or behaving, particularly to someone on the outside. It's usually covert. Alters do not all have to be extremely different from each other and they usually share traits. They're all parts of the same brain.

9. Most systems do have child alters and it's not weird. The disorder develops during childhood, and parts of the mind get stuck there. "Littles" are not literal children and often do have knowledge and skills beyond the years of a real-life child of the same age.

10. Protectors aren't bulletproof. No matter how "scary" a protector can be, they're still a human person capable of being hurt and they shouldn't be expected to handle everything perfectly.

1. It's extremely normal to have no idea who you are, especially the larger your system is. Most people with DID don't always have super clean-cut switches and influence is a thing.

2. A lot of systems have far more than the supposed 10-15 average number of parts.

3. DID isn't that rare; it's got a very similar prevalence rate to BPD and is about 3x as common as schizophrenia. It's underdiagnosed and frequently misdiagnosed as other things by inexperienced or ignorant clinicians.

4. Alters can't die. They can go dormant or fuse but it's impossible for a part of your mind to die.

5. It's extremely normal to have a headspace that isn't that vivid or detailed. Plenty of people can't fully access their headspace, and don't have realistic memories of being there as if it were a real place. For many it's a visualization.

6. Complex relationships between alters are very common, whether they're familial, friendships, or even romantic or sexual.

7. Not being able to remember trauma is basically half the point of the disorder, but it doesn't mean that trauma didn't happen to cause it. DID/OSDD is a medical condition that develops alongside PTSD, not a neurotype.

8. Not all alters will have a noticeably different way of speaking or behaving, particularly to someone on the outside. It's usually covert. Alters do not all have to be extremely different from each other and they usually share traits. They're all parts of the same brain.

9. Most systems do have child alters and it's not weird. The disorder develops during childhood, and parts of the mind get stuck there. "Littles" are not literal children and often do have knowledge and skills beyond the years of a real-life child of the same age.

10. Protectors aren't bulletproof. No matter how "scary" a protector can be, they're still a human person capable of being hurt and they shouldn't be expected to handle everything perfectly.

Everyone's heard of amnesia, be it because of a traumatic brain injury or because of mental illness. It's especially relevant in dissociative disorders, where some people partially or completely block out traumatic memories (or, in the case of DID, whatever an alter wasn't present for). However, there's another type of amnesia that's less commonly talked about: emotional amnesia. While present in other disorders, this is what helps define OSDD-1b, which makes the 'less commonly talked about' part a big problem.

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On one hand, YESS!!! Pics of my kitties from last year!!! <33!!