Malachite

The funniest part is that plurality as a whole is already severely under-researched. People act like psychology has every answer about consciousness, identity, dissociation, and plurality when in reality the field still barely understands huge portions of it. Plural communities and discussions existed before DID was even formalized as a diagnosis, yet anti-endos love pretending history magically began the second medical terminology became convenient for them. Human identity is messy. Consciousness is messy. Trauma is complicated. The brain is complicated. But anti-endos flatten all of that nuance into the dumbest black-and-white worldview imaginable because complexity terrifies them.

And honestly? The “endos are invading our community” argument is one of the most hypocritical and irritating things they constantly scream about. Endogenic systems use tags like #plural because they ARE plural. That tag was never exclusively owned by anti-endos or medically recognized systems. If anti-endos deliberately lurk in inclusive plural spaces, stalk endogenic creators, interact with endogenic posts, and obsessively search tags they already know contain endogenic systems, that is not “intrusion.” That is them intentionally inserting themselves into spaces they KNOW are mixed and then whining afterward because they saw people they dislike existing peacefully.

You cannot knowingly walk into a broad community tag and then cry because the community is broad. That is your own damn fault.

And then anti-endos LOVE to scream about “resources being stolen,” except half the time they don’t even know what the resources themselves stand for. They constantly bring up things like Simply Plural, PluralKit, and Tupperbox as if those are exclusive DID-only sacred spaces being desecrated by evil endos. Meanwhile all three are openly inclusive or pro-endo. PluralKit and Tupperbox have outright acknowledged that even roleplayers can use the bots. Simply Plural allows people to use it as OC storage too. These resources were intentionally designed to be broad and accessible by the people who CREATED them. Anti-endos do not get to override the actual creators just because they personally dislike inclusivity.

That argument completely falls apart the second you look at reality for more than five fucking seconds.

And another thing anti-endos somehow STILL cannot understand despite how painfully simple it is: endogenic systems are not claiming to have DID. If someone believed they had DID, they would say they have DID. That is literally the point. Calling yourself endogenic is already separating your experience from DID/OSDD frameworks. This is not some impossible galaxy-brain concept. It is one of the easiest statements imaginable to understand, yet anti-endos intentionally twist it constantly because pretending endos are “faking DID” sounds more dramatic and gives them an excuse to justify harassment.

It genuinely feels like some anti-endos are less interested in protecting trauma survivors and more interested in controlling who is “allowed” to exist in plural spaces. The obsession is unhealthy. The harassment campaigns, stalking, mockery, dogpiling, misinformation, purity culture, and constant aggressive gatekeeping create more toxicity than the people they complain about ever did. You cannot preach about mental health while acting like a chronically online bully whose entire personality revolves around invalidating strangers on the internet.

And the irony is insane because anti-endos constantly prove the exact point people criticize them for. They claim they want safe spaces, yet they make plural communities hostile as hell. They claim they care about education, yet they spread misinformation constantly and refuse to acknowledge how little plurality is actually researched. They claim they care about respect, yet dedicate absurd amounts of time to mocking, harassing, and dehumanizing people they disagree with. If your movement relies more on aggression, ridicule, and social policing than actual discussion, maybe your position is not nearly as strong as you think it is.

At the end of the day, no amount of screaming online is going to erase people you dislike from existence. Reality does not magically disappear because anti-endos throw another tantrum on the internet.

And before anyone twists this around: this is not targeted at diagnosed systems. This is targeted at anti-endos specifically, because anti-endos can absolutely be singlets too. Being diagnosed does not automatically make someone anti-endo, and being anti-endo does not automatically make someone a system. The problem is the hostility, harassment, and obsessive gatekeeping — not whether somebody has a diagnosis.