WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP DOOM SCROLLING - me ?

"is this ACTUALLY harmful to the rest of the community, or am I letting the 'punching down on someone I find weirder than me because I feel helpless about real injustices' urge take hold?"

Because I assure you, a solid 95% of the time, it's the latter and y'all need to take a nap, drink some water, have a snack, get some fresh air, and look around to see how you can help stop actual harms happening in the offline world.

Plurality, and disorders like DID, are real. That's a non-negotiable place to start. You can think it's weird all you want, you can questions the hows and whys of it, whatever, but it's not "misdiagnosed personality disorders", "delusions", or "tiktok induced hallucinations" or whatever the hell people like this think.

Secondly, it's not 'sudden'. Accounts of plurality go back as far as the 1500s at least. That's just recorded accounts. We've always been here! We're not a "tumblr thing" or a "tiktok thing".

It's not even RARE. Even at the usual 1% tossed out there, that's over 70 million people. That's more people than in the entire UK.

The only reason it seems sudden is the same reason why there's "suddenly" more people who are autistic, or have ADHD: awareness and education. More people realizing it's a thing, and realizing "that sounds like me", is gonna make it seem "suddenly" more common.

And sure, social media plays a role. But not because social media "causes" it, but because a LOT MORE people are on social media-- and a LOT MORE people use social media to spread awareness on issues. This isn't fucking rocket science. This shouldn't still be such a big "golly I wonder what's going on here" especially with younger MDs.

Not touching people calling women "females", gee I wonder why a phenomena linked heavily to trauma would affect women (cis or not) and AFAB folks more. HUH. TOTAL MYSTERY. But also, women are more likely to go to therapy and figure shit out! It likely affects more cis men than numbers suggest.***

*** Also gender is fucking complicated and not binary, so splitting things into "men vs women", and even "AFAB vs AMAB", will never be sufficient. It leaves out a lot of trans, nonbinary, and intersex folks.

On top of it, the rhetoric of "if it was REAL these people would be HIDING IT and not posting it on tiktok" is such shit, lol. Ah yes. If you have something going on, you will be hiding it in shame! 🙄 No one EVER talks about things they have going on that impact literally ever area of their life!

Plural folk talk about it because they don't want to hide. It's nothing to be afraid or ashamed of. They share stuff about their system, they show switches on film, they connect with others like them, because it's their lives. They want to make it less stigmatized.

Again, this isn't rocket science.

Anyways.

Avoid "Dr" Hannah Spier. Who, besides this, calls herself the "antifeminist psychologist" and follows/boosts content from transphobes, terfs, people who are "anti woke ideology", Turning Point USA members, alt right grifters, and claims "autism was hijacked by narcissists".

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Images under the cut to show y'all what we mean, got a terrible migraine right now so no image descriptions currently, but will try to add them later.

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tabby

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peri

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Cron fronting the most on Monday. Out of context fucking funny to me.

Talk about how many of us are abandoned not just by broader society, but by our own communities because our experiences are considered "too weird," "too cringe," or too inconvenient for respectability politics.

Talk about how some plurals will happily throw us under the bus in hopes that sacrificing us will make them appear more believable, more legitimate, more acceptable.Talk about how being told "that's impossible" or "that's just psychosis" is often treated as an acceptable response, even by people who know what it feels like to have their own experiences denied.

Talk about how "endogenic" became a catch all category for wildly different experiences and beliefs, flattening an enormous diversity of perspectives into one caricature that people can easily dismiss.

Talk about how countless communities and frameworks that once tried to give language to the breadth of plural experiences were mocked, demonized, or abandoned because they were deemed too strange, too embarrassing, or bad optics.

Talk about the way people treat plurality as though it must have one acceptable explanation and one acceptable narrative, and how anyone who exists outside that narrative is expected to either lie, stay silent, or leave.

Talk about how many cosmological and metaphysical plurals feel forced to choose between authenticity and community, because speaking openly about our experiences means risking ridicule from singlets and exclusion from other plurals alike.

Talk about how treating trauma based plurality as the only legitimate form of plurality reinforces the same rigid ideas about personhood and consciousness that have historically been used to invalidate all plural people.

Talk about how "I don't personally believe that" too often becomes "you are dangerous, delusional, or hurting the community simply by existing."

Talk about how respectability politics have never protected marginalized people. They have only created new outsiders.

Talk about how some of us spent years hiding, not because we were ashamed of who we are, but because we learned that even among people who understood multiplicity, there were experiences they considered unacceptable.

Talk about how disagreement does not justify dehumanization.

Talk about epistemic humility. Talk about the limits of human understanding. Talk about how nobody possesses a complete theory of consciousness.

Talk about how plurality has always been more diverse than any one framework, diagnosis, belief system, or community would like to admit.