☆ río ☆

this community tends to be did centric and it's very easy to forget that did is not and will never be the default system experience and we really need to let go of that way of thinking because it harms those in the community with protection mechanisms that aren't "i blacked out and now im in my car with no memory of anything".

c'mon. brains are more creative than that.

non-did systems are just as valid as did systems are and the way your brain helped you survive is not to be discredited simply because the media likes the appeal of one disorder over the other. plz dont be afraid to hold did systems accountable when they fail to include systems without did (ex. osdd1, pdid, udd, etc.).

💛 systems who can’t remember their trauma

💛 systems who remember it well

💛 systems with lots of introjects

💛 systems with no introjects

💛 small systems

💛 large systems

💛 systems who use plural terms

💛 systems who use singular terms

💛 systems who never seem to know who they are

💛 systems who split a lot

💛 systems who hardly split

💛 systems still going through trauma

💛 systems who are recovering

💛 systems who want to integrate

💛 systems who want healthy multiplicity

💛 systems who don’t know what they want

💛 systems with unconventional methods of communication

💛 systems whose switches are difficult

💛 systems with lots of comorbidities

💛 systems who fight a lot

💛 systems who are just figuring themselves out

💛 old systems

💛 young systems

💛 poc systems

💛 nonhuman heavy systems

💛 systems who have “unusual” triggers

💛 systems who switch a lot

💛 systems who switch hardly at all

💛 systems who switch fluidly

💛 systems who are doing their best

💛 systems who are allowing themselves to rest

💛 systems 💛

Fictives can form due to the brain feeling someone else could have handled trauma better.

Non-humans are valid.

Non-humans can form due to an attachment to something and/or being dehumanized to such a strong degree.

Persecutors are valid.

Persecutors are alters that are so traumatized and either need a vent or believe reenacting trauma will help the system. There are also other reasons.

Littles are valid.

Littles form from trauma from the childhood. It would make sense that there are, well, children.

You know what's not valid?

Non-traumagenic systems. Period.

You can have a system and not know your trauma, but you can not be a system without trauma.

There isn't a lot of research because it can't happen, period. There isn't a lot of research that isn't biased either.

If you are a non-traumagenic system you are either misdiagnosed or don't know the trauma.

By being a "proud non-traumagenic system" you are invalidating years of medical research and millions of systems.

And I've been told I'm "invalidating a system" but here's the thing.. you aren't a system. Woah, shocker /s

if that doesn't make sense: Like claiming you ate an apple and showing off your orange rinds, pointing and saying it's an apple. Sure, you ate a piece of fruit, but it is most certainly not an apple-

Again, you can have something else, you can be confused. That's alright, but what's *not* alright is ignoring how the disorder works to continue being something you're not.

While I'm at it, system hopping can't happen either.

Y'all need to stop like what ✋😆

Let's stop making a literal medical diagnosis a debate from a community of non-medical professionals 😃

if you have a problem with self-diagnosed folks but you refuse to acknowledge extreme lack of access to mental health resources for most people, then YOU are a shitty & classist person. Not everyone has access to mental health care, especially those who are in poverty or in positions of trauma where they cannot access help.