#plurphobia

Any of your friends or family members could be part of a system. Any of your classmates or coworkers could, too. Even your partner could be a system.

Plural systems usually do not announce our plurality. Because of the massive stigma around plurality, we try to pass as singlets. My system does this every day. My headmates have friends they've known for a decade who don't know we're plural.

It's said that dissociative disorders are very rare, but they're not. Trauma can and does happen to anyone. And many systems don't have dissociative disorders at all.

I hear this take a lot, that everyone has things they need to work through in therapy. It's a bad take that ignores that therapists bring their own personal biases and opinions to the table.

I'm a fictive in a system. Theoretically, it would help me to work through my trauma. But every therapist we've seen has been biased against plural systems. We recently had to fire a therapist for saying that we're not plural, we just have an "active imagination."

For some people, going to therapy means being disbelieved, or not taken seriously, or even harmed.