#polyplural

Shoutout to systems with 10,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with 100,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with 1,000,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with 1,000,000,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with infinite members

Shoutout to systems with an uncountable amount of members

Shoutout to systems who are constantly splitting

Shoutout to systems who don't or can't keep track of who's who

Shoutout to systems who are so large they function as one person

Shoutout to systems who are constantly blurry

Shoutout to systems who are so large they can't ever function as one person

Shoutout to systems who are large due to polyfragmentation

Shoutout to systems who are large due to willomancy

Shoutout to systems who are large due to walk ins

🏥 — how many hosts have you had since your syscovery?

➕️ — largest subsystem?

🔙 — how many headmates have you had in front at once?

🍃 — what colour has the most headmates associated with it?

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 — how many in-sys families do you have?

↔️ — do you have any groups that arent sisasystems?

➗️ — how do you divide headmates into groups?

ℹ️ — what source would you say you have the most headmates from?

🆔️ — if you have a collective identity, how many headmates dont identify with it?

🎓 — how do you schedule things?

👨‍💼 — do you have some kind of officer/person in charge of the rules to enforce rules?

🫦 — who has the most bitches?

🧴 — how many polycules are there?

🥜 — whats the biggest group in-system?

📴 — how often does the fronting group (however you define that) change?

Polyminds can't be spreading misinformation about systems/dissociative disorders because they aren't systems and they aren't claiming to have CDDs.

Claiming polyminds are harming themselves by "purposefully dissociating their identity" is simultaneously perpetuating stigma against CDDs and ignoring the struggles the individual you're invalidating is going through that led them to this experience.

On that last note, ISF exists. And its OKAY that it is similar to how cdd systems present. Because cdd systems form. To help. You cope. Richard Schwartz noticed that verbally separating parts of someone's identity in to functional labels can not only help with emotional regulation and increase self empathy, but help identify past traumas and current struggles the individual might be overlooking due to high stress and emotional repression. The goal is the eventual collecting of these parts into one healed whole. Polyminds are using this framework to survive, cope, and heal where they have no other tools available. It's not the business of the system community to police their mental health and how they choose to verbalize their experiences.

Polyminds are not ripping off fictives by naming their parts after characters. Period. Everybody introjects. And if you can't see how someone, especially a traumatized or neurodivergent person, might feel comforted or empowered by representing a part of themselves by a character they love/relate to idk what to do with you. (This one really gets me going, y'all gotta stop being so gatekeepy puh-lease.)

If youre offended by the existence of polyminds its because youre approaching the situation in bad faith or with a chronic lack of information and a foolhardy attitude. You are the problem.

Rant over. If ur mad, get better opinions and please block me on your way out </3

what happened to you on the internet is not unimportant or meaningless, just because it happened on the internet.

even though the internet is considered seperate from the rest of life, it has become intertwined for everyone.

especially if it takes up a good chunk of your life, you are not weird at all for being affected by what happens here and what is directed at you specifically.

even if it's meaningless and unimportant to other people, that is irrelevant to how you feel about it and how it affects you.

please, don't downplay your pain or blame yourself just because it happened online.