#raph posting

Would be really cool if we, a system who's culture recognizes plurality in multiple forms, could interact with fucking anything plurality related without being treated like an enemy to the DID/OSDD/CDD community.

Would be really cool if we, a system with origins in culture, a DID diagnosis, and dissociative symptoms caused by severe trauma, could interact with or talk about our experiences as a mixed origin system without people CONSTANTLY trying to a. Invalidate our cultural understanding of plurality or b. Invalidating our struggle with dissociative symptoms and their effect on our system.

So fucking sick of seeing shit that is absolutely relevant to our experience then immediately feeling unwelcome to interact with said shit because of exclusionists who can't seem to grasp that DID isn't a fuckin 'alter disorder'. Why am I being excluded from content about my own fucking disorder because I also happen to value and uphold my cultures knowledge and understanding of plurality that extends beyond (and is much fucking older than) DID/OSDD.

Why am I expected to shelve my Indigeneity and my cultural knowledge and spirituality in order to interact with content that is relative to my fuckin life because others can't seem to grasp that western psychology isn't the end all be all to knowledge? Why am I expected to compartmentalize myself and divorce myself from my Indigeneity in order to access posts that could help others.

That shift was monumental for us. We stopped viewing each other as symptoms and started viewing each of us as traumatized individuals. It helped us recognize that what we originally thought of as 'problem headmates' were more often than not just a headmate dealing with different symptoms of PTSD than the rest of us. It truly helped us investigate and figure out what each of us needed to heal from our own personal manifestations of the trauma we faced.

Individualism and colonialization has absolutely obliterated community for so many. Humans are a social species. Lack of interpersonal connection and yes -attention- is detrimental to human health. It can absolutely be traumagenic.

We focused on finding coping strategies that worked for each of us who were processing those traumas in different ways.

Once we stopped treating each other like we were the problem and started focusing on the myriad of manifestations of our PTSD we were finally able to over come a good majority of the dysfunction that separated our system.

No one gets credit for the amazing and adaptive people in our system. They didn't 'create us' by abusing us. All they did was sever communication and leave us with dozens of individuals struggling with their own PTSD symptoms in isolation.