reveries of a system

Alter A: You need to keep your timeline straight

Alter B: I literally have the not straight timeline disorder

(pause)

Restricting the definition of who a label/concept can be applied to falls under the same philosophy that the systems that oppress the disabled fall under.

That is to say - restricting access so that imagined invaders and "appropriators" won't get in.

The endo "invaders" are not oppressors in any fashion. Hating them because our oppressors "won't take us seriously because of them" is joining the war on the side of the oppressors. It's only fighting ableism until the oppressors call out a target that's easy enough to punch down on.

We, as a community, can be better, more compassionate than that. Is this truly what being "radical" is? Stop punching down. For your own sake, too. Is this really the "good fight" you want to win? To remove all the "weirdos who don't belong?"

To my friends who still feel hurt, I understand. But the people you are fighting do not want to hurt you. They just want to understand their own individual human experience. If they are angry at us, they are not in the wrong. You know that rage, too, at being told that what you are is not real, or is impossible to take seriously.

You have been taught to value an idea of a "real" experience based in science. But that science is so limited. The DSM-5 is not a bible, it is written with the intent of treating us, making us more palatable, "worth our place in society". It is not something we should be thumping to ward off "impure" things. We do not need purity. We do not need sanctity. We need safety and community, so we need to build it.

If we view endos, willos, or any type of system as a pest, we will choke ourselves with pesticide to eradicate them. This is not kindness. This is not acceptance. It is cruelty.

I love traumagenic systems

I love disordered systems

I love tulpagenic systems

I love willogenic systems

I love programmed systems

I love mixed origin systems

I love systems who don't care about origins

I love plurals who don't want to be called systems

I love soulbonders

I love syslets/plurallets

I love medians

I love systems who aren't ready for a diagnosis

I love systems who don't want a diagnosis

I love self diagnosed systems

I love professionally diagnosed systems

I love polyfragmented systems

I love systems with a high headcount

I love systems with a low headcount

I love introject heavy systems

I love brainmade heavy systems

I love systems who are open about their plurality

I love systems who have yet to come out

I love everyone who is questioning if theyre a system/plural

I love systems with nonhuman headmates

I love systems who prefer medical terms (alter, multiple system, parts)

I love systems who prefer community terms (headmate, plural)

I love systems who don't care about terminology

I love systems who use singular pronouns

I love systems who use plural pronouns

I love systems with collective names

I love systems who use each headmates' individual names

I love all of the systems and plurals ever