#did help

i sometimes will be dissociated and zoning out for a bit and then when i “come back” i hear the tail end of a sentence being thought but i didn’t know i was thinking and i can’t remember/hear the start or what it was about and it just goes quiet in your head instead

We are almost always one of the first people to advocate for the understanding of potentially problematic headmates, but this was so over the top. Like this was so evil, it was nearly cartoonish. And so now we’re just… Trying to figure out how to cope with this, because most people have gawked at us for wanting to peacefully lock this headmate up for what they did. No cruelty, but just space until we can figure out what in the hell we’re going to do.

I see a lot of discourse online about referring to your alters as parts because it's dehumanizing.

Our alters don't mind being called parts, and some of us even refer to ourselves as IDs, but we don't want to do this if it actually is harmful.

Is it okay to refer to yourself as a part or even ID? some of our alters when introducing themselves say, "My ID is (name)" instead of "My name is (name), I'm an alter/part" because it works better for them.

c00lk1dd faceclaims/pfps:

(credits go to the artists of these pfps, we did not make any of them)

I hope that's okay, just so we can visualise it for non-sys friends? w/ credit of course!!

Of course I can!

Disclaimer for anyone else seeing this, dissociation can happen outside of DID and if you find anything below relatable I’d recommend looking into dissociation!

note: the tags i have put are for reaching the right audience i need for this.

so, to start off, i’m not a system and i don’t think i’m experiencing plurality in any way.

i came to tumblr specifically because i know there are people here who have good knowledge and experiences. on reddit people are usually arguing and debating. anyways; for a long time (around 8 years now) i’ve experienced something that i do not know a term for.

i’ll try to explain to my best ability:

so my friend who thinks they maybe a system was talking about their experiences and I related to a surprising amount of them so I just wanted to ask questions about what people who do have DID think but trigger warning for me talking about my toxic exes

So I have recently been made aware that calling yourself something different in your head and asking yourself questions and answering them as a different person and seeing yourself as someone else isn't normal, but I have also had full conversations with people and just admittedly forgotten them afterwards and I'll be standing there after the conversations finished confused on what I was doing including getting out of bed getting dressed talking to my mom and waking up confused on why she's saying that she has already told me to get up and that we talked for apparently a hour I assumed I was just tired or something. In my head I will talk to myself and answer my own questions and call myself Cathy and Cathy has very different opinions than me I have also talked about myself as in my birth name like that's not me and I have been going by shadow for awhile. I have made decisions and talk as in I'm not the one doing it "she's having fun" or "you're talking to much" and explaining things to myself like full characters I have explaining them as in i am a audience. I thought that DID only happens in little little kids but my friend said it can happen when older I am a teenager. I thought I didn't have a trauma but I have been told that yes I do and I'll explain that so trigger warning for abusive exes grooming rape and death this will be in detail of it to explain everything I don't wanna leave anything out