#this!!

Someone left me the absolute nicest ao3 comment after finishing Hidden Depths and like

[ID: Spams the kudos button with such strength I break it. So I spent all night reading the first arc, and the Litterally all day, since the moment I had enough charge, reading the rest. Heckin addictive fic!!! And the ace qpr? I have never seen a qpr represented like this before!! To be honest I haven't seen an ace relationship like this anywhere! Ever! Thank you so much for writing it this way, it's given me inspiration for how I want/ hope my own relationship to be. Finally given me something to define a qpr other than vague words and confusing concepts. /end ID]

Pretending you know them so you don’t seem weird while frantically looking for any unique feature that could identify them

A pet peeve of mine is when pro/anti endos explain what endos are to people who are uneducated. Despite your own personal stance on the matter, whether you think it’s “real” or not, you should still give facts without personal bias to someone who is uneducated so they can form their own beliefs.

"if you suspect you're plural talk to a professional!" "why don't you like being called [medical term]?" etcetera etcetera.

as a disordered plural system we hate it so much. nondisordered and nonmedical systems exist, not every disordered system likes using medical terminology. stop.

( besides that, most of the people who make this claim are anti-endos, too. )

No one is forcing you to use a BAH pack, some folks just find it helps their collective function better, and that's okay. Resources can exist without them necessarily applying to you /not directed

i've seen multiple people say that syskids should never be on social media, that we shouldn't reveal our names (which has always confused me, the main problem with people revealing their names online is doxing, which doesn't really apply because most headmates don't use their names irl), that we always need direct supervision from an adult headmate, etcetera

theres an expectation that all syskids are one to one the same as real children, when really syskids maturity can vary wildly! in our system syskids are about as mentally mature as other headmates, just with bigger emotions and childcoded personalities

theres no one size all for how syskids should be treated, but the community acts like there is, and bars syskids from spaces they could exist in with no problem, like confinig them to one discord channel like your post said

idk. im sick of the community not taking me seriously and allowing me autonomy based off a narrow view of what syskids are

-cat