#pdid system

it's march 5th, which is dissociative identity awareness day!! i seldom talk about being plural on here, but i am, and i've had this comic idea for quite a while now... i have P-DID, which is a label under the OSDD umbrella that not many people know about! i think these little infographics can be helpful to anyone who might be questioning or newly-realizing/diagnosed as plural, i know talking to other systems was one of the things that helped me out the most when i was learning all this stuff about myself. hopefully it might help you, too- or maybe you'll just get to learn something new!

the colors here are from this flag, just with a few adjustments to make it work better for something like a comic. i'll also link my sources under the cut, for anyone interested in reading more!

reblogs are appreciated!

forgetting passwords, forgetting names and people, forgetting your dreams, having too vivid dreams, insomnia, brain fog, face blindness, remembering your days like a blur, struggling to remember your schedule, school/work day gone too fast, forgetting to eat, forgetting to drink, derealization, depersonalization can all be caused by dissociation. i know its hard to accept but it is, just because you don't black out doesn't mean you don't dissociate; if you sit on your computer stopping for a second doubting your password or if you wake up feeling like that was a trainwreck of a dream then suddenly it stops being visible is caused by dissociation. if you're awake, looking around but having the feeling that something with the existence of the surroundings is wrong is also dissociation. if you suddenly remember that you forgot to eat that day, that you forgot to drink that day, the time is 3 am and even though you never blacked out and you were always there, is still dissociation.

If your parents genuinely changed and improved overtime

If your parents were absent when you were a kid because they were sick / ill / working / otherwise indisposed

If your parents were not your abusers

If your parents would have acted differently if they knew you were being abused

If your parents didn't have the resources or knowledge to help / understand you

If your parents were loving and yet still neglectful

If your parents inadvertently invalidated / didn't believe you, but now do

If your parents weren't your primary caregivers when the abuse happend

If you weren't abused at all and your trauma was medical / environmental / etc

Had emotionally and physically present parents but you still had disorganized attachment with them as a kid because of your delusions / paranoia / etc.

If your parents regret how they treated you

If your parents loved and love you but acted the way they did because of substances / mental illness

If your parents are not completely bad people, or bad people at all

If you still get along with your parents regardless of what they did

If you ever invalidated your own traumatic childhood experiences because your parents were "too nice"

Your trauma is not less valid if you get along with your parents today. Sure, you needed disorganized attachment to your primary caregivers as a kid to develop a CDD. But that can take plenty of formes, and they don't all include your parents being monsters.

That's like saying someone can develop PTSD without trauma "just because the brain decides to have it"

Or someone can get a concussion "cause the brain just did it"

"If someone's here, can you give me a sign?"

"If anyone wants to introduce themselves, the floor is yours."

"Can you tell me your name? Do you have a name?"

"I can feel a presence nearby; can you come closer, please?"

"How long have you been in here?"

"It's okay, I just want to talk."

systems with osdd, you are loved.

systems with p-did/di-dd, you are loved.

systems with low amnesia, you are loved.

systems with high amnesia, you are loved.

systems with differing alters, you are loved.

systems with alters that don't differ much, you are loved.

systems with nonhuman alter, you are loved.

nonhuman systems, you are loved.

RAMCOA/OEA/TBMC/Programmed systems, you are loved.

systems who used to be endo/pro endo, you are loved.

systems who used to be harmful, you are loved.

diagnosed systems, you are loved.

self diagnosed systems, you are loved.

suspected systems, you are loved.

undiagnosed systems, you are loved.

systems who don't remember their trauma, you are loved.

systems who remember their trauma, you are loved.

queer systems, you are loved.

systems who use xenogender/neopronouns, you are loved.

systems who use parts terminology, you are loved.

systems who use alters terminology, you are loved.

systems who use headmates terminology, you are loved.

systems who use any term to replace parts, you are loved.

systems who like to be treated as multiple, you are loved.

systems who like to be treated as one person, you are loved.

systems who want final fusion, you are loved.

systems who want functional multiplicity, you are loved.

systems who are still in an abusive situation, you are loved.

systems that have multiple/comorbid disorders, you are loved.

systems who are neurodivergent, you are loved.

polyfragmented systems, you are loved.

systems with a high headcount, you are loved.

systems with a low headcount, you are loved.

systems who have a headspace, you are loved.

systems who don't have a headspace, you are loved.

systems who use plural, you are loved.

systems who don't use plural, you are loved.