#did terms

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Sinmaker -> Holymaker

Sinmaker: an alter who indulges in what would be considered "sin", even if the alter/system does not believe in such concepts.

Holymaker: an alter who indulges in what would be considered "holy", even if the alter/system does not believe in such concepts.

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Definition: Dissociative Identity Disorder is a mental health disorder where a person (or body) has two or more distinct personalities/identities. (more commonly known as alters)

System & Identity Terms

System: The collective term for the individual experiencing the dissociative and all of their alters.

Alter/Headmate: One of the people that exist within the system

Host: The alter (or alters) that spends most of the time interacting with the outside world and handling day-to-day life.

Co-host: An alter who frequently handles daily responsibilities or fronts often, assisting the host.

Fragment: A less developed alter that holds specific memories or emotions, rather than having a full personality.

Introject: An alter based on an outside person, such as a fictional character (fictive) or an authority figure (factive)

State & Dynamics Terms

Fronting: When an alter is in executive control of the body and reacting to the physical world.

Switching: The process of changing control of the body from one alter to another.

Co-consciousness (Co-con): When more than one alter is present and aware of what is happening, even if only one is controlling the body

Headspace (Inner World): An internal mental space where alters can exist, communicate or rest while not fronting.

Fusion: When two or more alters blend together into a single, cohesive identity.

Integration: The process of reducing dissociative barriers and improving communication between alters (can eventually lead to fusion)

Dissociation & Trauma Terms

Amnesia: Gaps in memory that can range from missing minutes to years, occurring when another alter is fronting.

Depersonalization: The feeling of being detached from one’s own body or mind; feeling like you are watching yourself from the outside.

Derealization: A feeling of detachment from your surroundings; perceiving the external world as dreamlike, artificial, or unreal.

Traumagenic: A term used by the community to highlight that DID is caused by severe trauma (especially during childhood), rather than being initially created.

Endogenic: A system that naturally formed and not by severe trauma.

Willogenic: A system that was created on purpose through conscious effort.

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Astroego

A term for headmates who's self and identity as a headmate feel intertwined with space and/or astrology, while not being sourced from it although they may appear to be.

A system-exclusive term for alters that don't identify as exclusively cis or trans due to being in a system. Some examples include: - alters whose species doesn't have a concept of being cis/trans or having a gender or otherwise has a different concept of gender than humans - alters who aren't fully formed enough to know if they're cis or trans or are otherwise blurry, fluid, have facets, are recently fused, etc - alters that present as having mixed sex characteristics, can shapeshift, have no genitals, or are unsure if they have genitals - alters who don't identify with having an "assigned gender/formed gender" This can coexist with other genders. For instance, an alter who uses this term may still identify as a man, but not be sure/care about if they're cis or trans.

This term is exclusive to systems, meaning DID-spec (aka traumagenic) systems, not people who claim to be systems without a disorder/trauma

An alter (headmate/system member/etc.) who's role is to adapt. The situations one must adapt to are not specific and can vary from system to system.

This role is up to interpretation, however, some of the things this alters may experience are:

A lack of stability or permanence in identity

Exclusively fluid identities (like genderfluid or abrosexual)

Sudden and/or extreme changes in opinions or perception

The feeling of being a subsystem made up of the different adapted versions that are taken to adapt (whether true or not)

Among others

Gateway

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An alter who acts as a gateway for other alters to make themselves obvious.

This alter is usually influenced by other alters that the host/system is not aware of until their strange behaviour is acknowledged as a new alter's influence.

This can often (but not only) happen with doubles, ie; an introject of a character may suddenly be very different from before and confuse the others about their identity, until another introject of the same character is acknowledged and discovered.

This was made with our gateway alter in mind, who has helped multiple doubles with his same source make themselves obvious to our hosts by letting them influence him until our hosts took notice of the change in his behavior and acknowledged the possibility of there being 2 different alters.