#systematicpride

System Experience #4 - Having a system wide movie night!

hi. were a plural system and this is our lives together.

we tried to do this once and it wasnt good. but we all got more goin on now and we kept seein @semiplural and @oursystemblog postin comics and liked it.

so. lets try this again.

far as i know theres four of us. ive changed our names to protect the guilty lmao.

trashcat (me): co-host. musician. game dev. 'evil alter'. system bouncer and cook. metalhead/anarch/brujah. tired of this shit.

scribbler: other co-host. writer. dresses like the goddamn easter bunny 75% of the time. his partner is our roommate. annoys the shit out of me but hes family.

cerwida: passenger. deergirl. really really into esperanto. shes new and still figurin herself out.

chevalier: passenger. knightboy. zero chill and zero interest in bein in front. spends most of his time in headspace on a horse doin quests. horsequest 4000.

Put up a new system member guide for how to make your own guide for personal use, as we found the extant 'new alter' guides lackluster.

In fact, it's important for non-traumagenic systems to talk about their experiences. It helps other plurals in so many ways, including:

Helping disordered sysyems realize their plurality has the potential to be a good thing & it may not always be so scary & bad

Helping newly discovered systems realize them being plural doesn't absolutely HAVE to mean they have repressed trauma (being convinced you must have something awful that happened to you that you can't remember is pretty distressing after all! Doubly so if you aren't already seeing a trusted therapist!)

It helps create more representation & normalize a variety of plural experiences

Non-traumagenic systems are not talking over or silencing traumagenic systems by simply talking about their own experiences. Although many anti-endos like to accuse endogenic systems of spreading misinformation, that's not true. You aren't "spreading misinfo" by talking about your own internal experience.

Non-traumagenic systems are allowed to exist. You're allowed to take up space & share your experiences. Non-traumagenics have their own space within the plural community, just as traumagenic systems do, and their own unique perspectives to share. You belong in the plural community. That space & those perspectives take nothing away from others, just as theirs doesn't take away from yours.

Moreover, a non-traumagenic system talking about their experiences on their own blog or Instagram or other social media account is not taking anything away from traumagenic systems or "invading their spaces", because that account was never a traumagenic space to begin with.

If you believe non-traumagenic systems speaking about their own experiences is somehow bad or wrong, please consider that to those outside these extremely niche mostly online spaces, we're all the same regardless of origin. Society at large doesn't differentiate whatsoever & has never heard the words "traumagenic" or "endogenic" - they literally think we're *ALL* crazy here. None of us are palatable to them. Rhetoric that pits us against one another is ableist & sanist rhetoric. Please know this.