#plural label

Pt: Garbled :end pt

A plural term where as a result of emotional distress, several headmates are "garbled" together where their presence is felt but one is not able to pulled from the other(s), with all the involved headmates distorted as a result, like parts of other headmates are being inserted into them, or in someway misaligned from themselves. The experience is often uncomfortable or painful.

This isn't an identity label, and is meant to be used in a manner similar to blurry or blending.

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Banner transcript: This term was made by an Endogenic. Anyone can use it however (So don't repost or recoin, ask before adding to wikis) :End Transcript

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Anyone can use our terms, though some might be more relevant to specific identities.

(The first flag is more stylised; the second is a simpler version.)

Description

Panoptigenic systems were formed either partially or completely due to experiences like surveillance, a lack of privacy, or the fear of being watched. It is an adaptive (and more often than not, traumagenic) origin.

Some examples of these experiences may include:

Being stalked.

Needing to stay closeted, or the fear of being outed.

Growing up with "helicopter" or strict parents, especially if they monitor your activity online.

Having your personal space, boundaries, or privacy violated (physically or emotionally).

Using — especially growing up on — the Internet; issues relating to cybersecurity in the age of things like generative AI and age verification laws.

A fear, phobia, or delusion that someone is monitoring you, including as a result of schizospec conditions.

Being told that your abuser, or a higher being, knows what you're doing/thinking at all times.

Religious trauma relating to deities being omniscient (all-knowing).

Government-based surveillance in countries under oppressive regimes.

Some members of panoptigenic systems may do everything in their power to give themselves or others in the system privacy, while others might give up on the idea entirely because it seems impossible to achieve. Within the system, there may be an unusually heavy focus on keeping secrets from outsiders. The system may come off as aloof, secretive, or withdrawn.

Related terms:

Faucets can stop the system revealing personal/sensitive information to outsiders.

Masked systems are covert, or trying to make themselves such.

Phobiogenic refers to systems formed by phobias, which could include those related to being watched.

Anyone can use our terms, though some might be more relevant to specific identities.

Description

An obscuronaut investigates memories and knowledge that the rest of the system has forgotten or repressed — this may include, but is not limited to: headmates/objects/events/places in the system, trauma (if applicable), information about the world, or events in the system's life.

Obscuronauts may also develop theories about forgotten things and seek evidence to prove them. For example, they may theorise that the system experienced abuse in childhood and seek evidence from the outer world (e.g. through conversations, the Internet, physical records such as photo albums, and/or locations where the abuse would have taken place.)

If their system is dissociative, they may experience more blurriness, dissociative symptoms, or brain fog when investigating repressed memories. Alternatively, they may be less affected by dissociation than the rest of the system or accidentally create false memories if jumping to conclusions.

Obscuronauts might work closely with archivists, librarians, or headmates with similar roles to document their findings.

Someone, eventually, will use the right words and things will make sense to those who don't get it right now

Keep talking, this isn't a useless conversation, but keep it civil, ffs

I feel like I'm watching CDD systems be dismissed and spoken over, as usual

That's part of the problem

CDD systems will always be spoken over in plural spaces, we were forced under the umbrella and people are determined to keep us there without hearing us out

I think, if it's a venn diagram, it looks like this

Plural is the minority

Non disordered experiences include anything from polyminds to long island medium, from tulpas to writers, endogenics, willowgenics, multiples and systems, self theory, consciousness, IFS, it's native tribes in remote areas that have no idea this is even an argument but spirit guides have been a part of their culture for centuries

It can't be an umbrella if it's the minority and barely known, it's just an opt in label that a significant enough chunk of the community HATES because of its history

Edit to add: it was coined with a very specific experience in mind-- more than one, a direct attack on less than one for CDD systems, it was made to be people-centered and exclusionary to medicalized systems, what it's meant to portray is really not accurate for most of the community, and it's because it WAS made to be the opposite of CDD

That's it

We're comparing it to queer as an umbrella term, but it's more like lumping everyone in under ally, it's a misunderstanding of concepts, experiences, and right to self determination

I mean, I guess, but not all allies are queer and you're missing a lot of important stuff there, I'm more than just an ally, stop dismissing me and putting me where I don't want to be

a term with two possible meanings;

— to be used by plurals who fluctuate between being a median system, and polyden,

— to be used by beings who are both polyden and median at the same time.

you call her whatever term works best for both of you. it is totally valid to create a headmate or system member. if you (collective you) feel multiple, and feel like you are existing as more than one, you absolutely can call yourself a system if you want. you could even try calling yourself plural, referring to this oc as a headmate, and identifying as a system for a while and see how it feels. that’s a normal part of the questioning process, and if it turns out she’s not a headmate and you’re not plural after all, it’s no big deal. you’re not hurting anyone by experimenting with plural labels and trying to figure out whether or not you’re a system.

our partner system is made up of a paromancer and her thoughtform. the host of our partner sys put time and energy into creating nev (the thoughtform in question). they are still a valid system, even though nev was created. created systems are a crucial part of the plural community, and created headmates are not only real, but intrinsic and special members of the systems they belong to.

as far as terms this oc could use, thoughtform could work, as you formed her with your thoughts. also headmate is a classic term used to describe system members of all sorts. and system member in itself is a term she could use. if your imagination played a role in her creation, she could also call herself an imagimate or something similar. there are countless terms out there than can describe a system member, so y’all can work together to find a term that would work well for her.

SNL SKETCH PLURAL: a term for any plurals who relate to or identify with the SNL sketch "Multiple Personalities."

[no alt term]

A term for a sort of inject who isn't actually in the system, but has a connection to it.

For example, one who is able to use the body and be considered a member despite not being so, residing anywhere outside of the innerworld (like source material or another reality), etc.

This term isn't exclusive to gateway systems. Systems of any kind can use this.