#thecatchirps

Not just referring to disorders, people shouldn't "just live life the way they please" if it harms themselves or others why is Tumblr such a fucking cesspit

people can do whatever they please, yes. that's because they have autonomy. their own experience with plurality doesn't invalidate yours, and doesn't invalidate other experiences cdd systems may have. even if it harms themselves. because they're within their rights to do so. are you aware of the concept "dignity at risk"? /genq

"Dignity of risk is the idea that self-determination and the right to take reasonable risks are essential for dignity and self esteem and so should not be impeded by excessively-cautious caregivers, concerned about their duty of care. The concept is applicable to adults who are under care such as elderly people, people living with disability, and people with mental health problems. It has also been applied to children, including those living with disabilities." (Wikipedia contributors, 2026)

Don't EVER try to educate me on my OWN DISORDER that I have been aware of and documenting sine 2018 you literally won't win with your psychosomatic spiritual arguments because they mean nothing to me. If you're going to argue DID argue facts, symptoms, trauma, not "belief" that IS delusion and "being plural" can very much be a fucking delusion if you're just not.

Just because you have a disorder doesn't mean I can't argue with you. I've been studying DID since 2018, too.

I'm not arguing about DID, tho. I'm arguing about plurality. Because plurality can exist outside disorders, outside cdds. because it's an experience that has been documented for years outside of dissociative disorders. And I'm not delusional. Stop calling me that. Do you know what a delusion even is? Because you seem to call me that just because you don't like the fact that I'm arguing with you. A delusion is "A false belief or perception that is a manifestation of a mental illness". An argument is not a delusion just because you don't like it.

You can go ahead and get abused and put yourself in danger and literally psychologically break yourself all you fucking want, just don't tell people that its a valid way to live life because it's not. It's literally the "I love getting worse" pipeline by the by.

Look. If their plurality is not from a disorder, or from trauma, then it didn't come from abuse. I'm not plural because of abuse, and abuse is not the only type of trauma that can cause plurality. Heck, cdds can form from other traumas outside of abuse! Not all plurality comes from trauma because, even inside of cdds, plurality is just one symptom of the disorder. that can exist outside of it. people can experience symptoms outside of disorders.

You don't "have to know" how or why an alter formed in order to have a dissociative identity disorder, do you happen to struggle with critical thinking skills? (Genuine question)

No, I don't struggle with critical thinking skills. Like I said, stop insulting me. I have memory problems and adhd and autism, but that doesn't mean I struggle with critical thinking.

You seem genuinely confused and uneducated on this topic so I'm truly concerned about the state of the rest of the "plural" Tumblr community if YOU'RE supposed to be an archivist. There is only one system origin and that is trauma. There is no such thing as having a "mixed system origin" if you had trauma then that's just it mate 😊

I'm educated enough, thank you very much. do you even know what a fucking archivist even is. "A keeper of archives or records". I archive records of syscourse, information from the plural community, sources. That's why I created this blog in the first place. and I'm not a "representative" of the whole plural community. my blog is a personal archive, where I can put whatever I want because it's my personal blog. and trauma is not the only way to become a system.

my system was formed because of trauma and stress. my first headmate formed because of trauma, as did the second, the third, the fourth. then I influenced the creation of some other headmates, and some formed I don't know why they formed. just because I have some endogenic and willogenic headmates doesn't mean 70% of us formed as a direct response of trauma.

there's a difference between having trauma and forming a system because of trauma. I have trauma and formed because of trauma, I call myself mixed-origin because some of us are traumagenic, some endogenic, some willogenic, etc. but it doesn't erase the fact that we formed because of trauma, and doesn't deny my trauma. I'm mixed origins, "Mixed origin refers to a system that has multiple different system origins. This could be because their system formed from a combination of factors, or that not all of their headmates are of the same origin." (Mixed Origin, n.d.)

Every system is different in terms of functionality; how, why, where and when. If you can "make alters" that's literally just your system function because you understand that you need to expand on a necessary yet dormant and already there fragment.

Yeah, possibly. I agree with you in that. Maybe those headmates I "created" were dormant or fragments that were already there. But I can interpret my system and my reality however I want, and you don't have the right to tell me how to do so. I choose to think I created them. Maybe they were dormant, who knows? Maybe I'm 100% traumagenic. But I can choose how to think about my headmates. and if those willogenic say they're willogenic, I'll believe them.

Every system is different, yes. Some are willogenic, some are traumagenic, some are endogenic, some are mixed origins, etc. I'm glad we can at least agree on that.

Go on a self discovery journey bro idk what to tell you, sit like Buddha under a tree until you reach nirvana it'll help

the only reason I'm a feline it's because of literally warrior cats and because I've identified as a cat for so long I can't just undo it. it's part of who I am. it's a very important part of who I am. I act like a cat, I communicate with cats, I get cats. cats are kin. and same thing for magpies, that's why I'm a winged cat, a hybrid of the two. too magpie to be truly cat, too cat to be truly magpie. a winged cat. I'm a bit magpie, but full cat.

and dogs... it's part of who I was. in my past. I acted like a dog as a child, I was obsessed with them, I dressed up as them, I literally thought I was a dog in a human skin. maybe I don't wanna be a dog anymore. the community is so canine-oriented already. and I know in this blog 99% of the time I talk about being a watcher because it's my main identity... but my past is so important to me that I can't just... ignore it. I was a dog and still am a dog.

do y'all get what I'm saying? my whole childhood, I was a dog. my whole adolescence/teenage years, I was a cat. now I'm a watcher and sometimes I wish I was just a watcher, because I'm a watcher in body, mind, heart, soul (watchers are another beast entirely that aren't defined by being predator or prey, because they are neither but I won't talk about it right now). but the dog and the winged cat, both are super important parts of myself, of my past, my childhood, my teenage years, my early adulthood, even now.

it doesn't matter to me that both cats and dogs are predators. the main reason I “adopted” the archetropal identity of The Prey in the first place it's because I have all these urges of prey animals that don't really belong to a specific species, but are part of myself and they're still traits I get and I embody. I'm The Prey in a bit of a fucked up way, I'm almost a hundred percent sure that it's because of anxiety and trauma. because I'm an anxious mess for more reason, and what better way to explain that irrational fear than with an alterhuman identity? /hjk

maybe it is because of my mental health problems. maybe not. but The Prey is much more than just anxiety, or just fear.

I'm kinda lost at the moment because there's so many bird species and I don't really know what to look for. there's so many bird behaviors that I just match with several classes (mostly corvids, to be honest...) and species. so I asked myself, what better way to get information than from the source themselves?

so I wanted to ask bird therians:

1. how did you discover your bird species? what bird behaviors do you exhibit?

2. do you have any sources to look for species? maybe a website or a book somewhere I can look at for research?

3. do you experience phantom limbs? (I get wings and talons all the time bc I'm a watcher)

4. how do you narrow down the species? through behaviour, appearance, or something else?