#system information

So

Things are rough right now

A lot of us have been relying on SimplyPlural and Octocon for system information storage

We do have an alternative though

We've been using Foretelling, and really like it

It's meant for worldbuilding for writers, but we've been using the characters section for headmate information, worldbuilding section for headspace information, and the chapter section for journalling/communication/ect

There's a lot to it, and it's great for complex systems

It had tags and groups for sisasystems and alter sorting

And you can share the information to your trusted people by adding them to your collaborators (read-only, read and edit, ect)

It looks like this

You are gonna need the basic run down, Huh? Lets get started, Shall we??!!

if you don't mind answering, what is an Endo and why are they fake?? I just haven't found a lot of good info on it

sorry if the ask is uncomfortable, feel free to ignore it

Nah, you’re good:) thanks for the ask, my friend! (There’s probably better explanations somewhere else, so ALWAYS fact check. Take all of this w/ a grain of salt)

First; What IS D.I.D?

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a disorder that comes from trauma, much like PTSD. It is where the brain “splits” from unhealthy amounts of trauma/very severe stress. There is a less monotone version of this: OSDD, but that’s not our focus right now.

Endogenetic systems are where the system forms without known trauma, which is impossible. And why they are considered ‘fake’. Do we believe ALL endos are fake? No! Some, if not, most of them have hidden trauma. Which is totally okay, we just don’t want Endos interacting with us because they spread misinformation about D.I.D, and we don’t mess w/ that.

While the realm of possibilities is always open to where any disorder can form without known trauma, do take into account that even becoming a system can be extremely hard for the brain; let alone doing it as a self sabotage.

But: Endos are harmful to the community because they spread misinformation, and in turn hurt the systems that WERE formed by known trauma, which is why you should always do your research before self-diagnosing as a system.

sincerely, Nosy Bitch Anon.

Ah yes the physical sensations! They suck. But they're so identity affirming and I feel like our blurriness would be 333x worse if they didn't exist. For us they tend to mostly manifest as either itching or loose pressures that don't really go away. Going to explain everyone's in the third person because. who the fuck am i.

Nova - already displayed in that one comic, weird eye pressure that has only happened twice.

Crescent - Weird {/pos} Comic presentation is actually kinda inaccurate to how she actually is? He'll sometimes get similar pressure around both eyes but its not a guarentee, most of the time they'll instead feel these somewhat tingling sensations in our legs that makes walking slightly more annoying.

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the first day of Summer System Education Week. During this week, we’ll be posting a little bit about our disorder - information about it, our thoughts and experiences, and questions for all of you! It’s a week dedicated to information :)

Day 1: What is DID/OSDD?

DID/OSDD is a dissociative disorder. It forms due to childhood trauma. The Theory of Structural Dissociation posits that trauma early in a child’s life leads to the child being unable to integrate the aspects of identity it has, and those “parts” are what become alters. They don’t typically form distinctly, from what I know, until adolescence.

For me, looking back, my alters formed in high school - even if I didn’t recognize them as alters at the time. Being the nerd I am, I was very into writing and very into RP. And, well, this was really no different in my mind! I clearly made my alters (at the time, Sierra - the one writing this specific post - and Wade). I made my alters as “characters” to take over when I got stressed out.

From an alter perspective rather than a single perspective, we saw Rice as the “Core” personality. She was the “real” one - she was just napping. She needed a break from life. So we took over.

It wasn’t until college that we heard about DID. By then, our life had gotten… a lot harder. And when we split apart again in college after hearing about DID, researching it, and realizing we didn’t remember almost any of our childhood… Well. We were up to 7 alters by then.

Living with DID is hard, especially when you’ve yet to process your trauma. For us, every day we flinch and jolt at thoughts we don’t even know. We flinch and then say “I had a thought but I don’t know what it was.” We struggle to remember what we’ve done, which depresses us, because we always feel like we’ve never done anything - our partner has had to start a list of what we’ve done each day just so we don’t put ourselves down for being lazy. We have trauma flashbacks, but doubt if what we went through is trauma, because we were never REALLY abused, our parents loved us, just not in the way we needed.

Living with DID is also so… so beautiful. We have a lot of in-sys relationships, and our partner honestly finds it really cool and interesting (and I don’t begrudge them that - this IS an interesting disorder). We’ve progressed enough in our healing that we can now switch mostly (sometimes) on command, rather than when triggered. We are our own support system - when someone is struggling, there’s always someone to hold them and comfort them. We find our differences beautiful.

DID/OSDD is a hard disorder. It’s also a beautiful one, for us. We love our system. We wouldn’t change it, and while we wish that the trauma never happened to us, we are happy to know each other, and happy that we found a way to cope (even if it’s not necessarily the healthiest for us - we’re working on it).