#discovering plurality

May be cooking up some intros soon. Mayhaps. Wait and see nerds

Ruth or Logan: Hey guys im putting the laundry away, where does this go

Me: bottom drawer

Tommy: You’re a bottom drawer

Unnamed Part (❣️): Shut up

Then i just feel giggling

I cant remember the rest (bcs i wasnt really there) but it was just him saying variations of this joke until Mrs. Unnamed part was about to explode.

Then i came to in order to finish some stuff.

Next thing I know Bee is having the dog chase us around the house while we wait for the washer to be done

We’re disabled

My body hurts Bee wtf /lh /aff

Anyways, I guess this is what happens when you just let parts take control instead of fighting against it. This is kinda nice.

A complex question.

Technically, we knew we were "plural" in the sense that we were more than one when Storm split Xan back in 2015. It was a sudden thing but it wasn't stressful or anything. I'm pretty sure Storm just ignored it entirely except for when they spoke to Xan on the rare occasion. Neither of them were really aware of the idea that we might have a disorder but they "knew" that it probably wasn't a good idea to mention the other voice in their head, to their therapist at the time. Storm hated that therapist. I still have some animosity towards him, myself.

However, we didn't discover the plural community (on Discord) until late 2019. October, I think it was? I split two months later. In October, it was Storm, Xan, Thomas, Terry, and Ebb. Just those five, but that's four more than typical. When we found out about the plural community we had an "oh so that's what it is?" moment and everything clicked. We didn't bother with self-dx at the time because all we cared about was the, "I'm plural," part of it and that we had a community of new people to interact with and make friends with. In December, when I split, we felt affirmed in the fact that we were plural, and we've been identifying as plural and multigenic since then. We also say we have DID, and whether we do or not is up to a licensed singlet to decide, but we honestly don't give a hoot about a piece of paper someone got from another person with another piece of paper... we also don't care whether or not we do have DID. It wouldn't make us any less of a system or plural, since obviously endogenics and non-traumas exist.