Dear r/systemscringe... you're being lied to...
You're in an echo chamber. One that bans anyone who goes against it. They will feed you irrelevant distractions of "sources" that don't address the real topic to keep you complacent, but people who link to anything that contradicts the narrative of the hate subreddit will be banned from it just like I was.
The other day, there was a screenshot of a post I made on that subreddit.
A user asked if this was correct. They were immediately fed a bunch of irrelevant sources that only addressed DID. And they were downvoted for even questioning if there might be anything behind what I said.
The links on the comment don't work. But even if they did, WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT DID.
There is a very manipulative trick being used here to focus specifically on DID when they know that this isn't the claim being made.
Let's start by establishing a few facts. Including the actual claim.
Claim: You can be plural without trauma or a disorder
What being plural means: Plurality is an umbrella of phenomena where a single-body experiences multiple self-conscious agents of some kind. These agents may be identified by the system as having origins that are spiritual or psychological. Psychologists use a variety of terms to refer to these agents such as "distinct personality states" or "dissociative parts."
Now, with the basic definition out of the way, let's talk about...
The sources r/systemscringe doesn't want you to see!
The most explicit in using plural community language is in Transgender Mental Health by Dr. Eric Yarbrough. This book was reviewed and published by the American Psychiatric Association.
Below are some choice excerpts from the book's chapter on Plurality.
This establishes the following:
The phenomenon of plurality is not the same as DID. (Which is why the sources discussing DID being caused by trauma are irrelevant distractions.)
Many plurals are happy being plural and not distressed by their plurality. (Important since "distress or impairment" are a criterion of DID and OSDD in the DSM-5.)
Plurality isn't necessarily caused by trauma.
In the World Health Organization's ICD-11, the term used for dissociative identities is "distinct personality states."
The ICD-11 includes the "boundary with normality where it states that you can experience the presence of "two or more distinct personality states" without a mental disorder.
This is, again, using a term it uses synonymously with dissociative identities. It's essentially using different words to say the same things as the Plurality chapter of Transgender Mental Health.
Do you need more sources?
Is the World Health Organization and a book published by the American Psychiatric Association not enough?
How about this study discussing multiplicity as a continuum of experiences?
The one thing that's been lacking for a while has been neurological studies into non-disordered systems. There is a currently-unpublished neurological study that was conducted into tulpamancy systems by Stanford University. Tulpamancy, for those unaware, is a mostly psychological practice of creating headmate through intentional effort.
The neurologist who led this study discussed the results in an AMA in the r/tulpas subreddit:
Essentially, the brain of tulpamancers showed different activity when a tulpa was controlling a limb versus when the host simply imagined someone moving their limbs.
If you're from r/systemscringe and this is the first time you've heard of any of these papers, that is by design!
The subreddit and most anti-endo communities are designed to keep you ignorant. Only their view is permitted. Anyone who contradicts their views, anyone who links to academic source that show the existence of endogenic plurality, is banned!
This is how they operate. It's how they keep you hateful. It's how they control you.
Remember, if there was a single paper out there that contradicted these studies, where even one doctor said you need trauma to be plural, r/systemscringe would have provided that by now.
The reason they only give sources about DID is because they can't find even one single doctor to say you need trauma or a disorder to be plural.
They want you to be ignorant. They want you to not find out what the actual professionals and experts think!
