The Sun System

Yes, this is absolutely true. I myself have other disabilities - both physical and psychiatric - that impact the things on this list.

But I’d also like to not derail from the autistic community right now. His little ableist speech was about us. The registry they’re making is about us. So while I do obviously agree with the fact that eugenics is a horrific thing to subject anyone to, I’d like to avoid this particular post turning into a catch all.

Lower support needs autistic people (like myself!! I’m on the moderate end of low but I’m not excluded from this) need to be actively held accountable for how we speak about autism and the elitism that many lower-support-needs people show when we’re in situations like this. That’s why I made the post.

"Us autistic people can be good tax paying working capitalism contributors!!!"

Its

"So what if some autistic people cant contribute to capitalism. So fucking what. They are still humans worth of love and care and support."

Sorry to break it to you but your not an amazing inclusive leftist for erasing people who aren't palatable.

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

[Let's talk alter pregnancy]

This is an information discussion post because there are claims going around calling it an endo concept when it is not.

Trigger warning for mentions of miscarriage and rape. Brief mentions as examples no indepth talk.

The how and why.

Key points:

- alters can become pregnant through normal means. Intercourse between two alters in the same sys.

- however there are other reasons at play; Desire for it (from that alter, the system or a shared desire between one alter and another be it from the same system or not)

- a form of coping from something trauma related,

- and a new alter forming.

Most often it is a combination but does not always have to be.

1. Its not an unfamiliar concept to most that alters in the same system can have sexual intercourse, and in some cases this can also result in a pregnancy. Though some alters can still have a pregnancy without it, in headspace with alters splitting and forming it isnt a required factor for every system.

2. For alters or systems who want children, sometimes the system will split children alters for them to take care of ti fill that desire, whatever the reason for the desire may be. But it can also split child alters in the form of pregnancy for alters who have an easier time with the concept of being a parent through birth rather than suddenly adopting a new alter, especially if the alter that split is a fragment and doesn't yet have an identity and may take time forming into a whole part.

For alters in a relationship between theirs and another system, that may desire to have children of their own between them, for whatever reason, the same thing can be said, it can be a full formed split of a child alter who's identity is a formed from a mix of them or a child from either of their systems that they adopted or it can come in the form of one of them being pregnant as said above. A shared desire for children like baby fever between one or more alters either in the same or across other systems.

3. Alter pregnancy can be a form of coping for many different reasons. It can be tokophobia the fear of pregnancy, an alter getting pregnant might be the brains way of coping through that fear, for us that's helped a lot. It can be coping with the loss of a child, if the body went through a miscarriage at any point or if someone very close has, it can be coping with the aftermath of rape, it can be an alter who isnt source separated coping with their loss of children in their source or any number of things.

"But headspace isnt real" argument dispute.

As we discussed before in this post, headspace is very real for many and very helpful for alters especially those just forming and as I explained above, alter pregnancy is another form of splitting alters.

Its just a more gradual formation that helps the system adjust in a different way. A lot if alters form for different reasons, a lot of systems treat their headspace differently. None of this is harmful.

Headspace is just as real as your alters, whether you can access it or not, so claiming that it isnt as a way to argue that the pregnancy isnt real is policing other systems experiences, you doing get to do that.

We cant control how other people treat their systems, what experiences their systems have and we cant get upset when it's different for us and hard to understand.

The brain is complicated and things take time to understand but you also don't have to understand in order to respect others.

Telling another system their expirience isnt real because headspace isnt real is telling them how they should treat their system. You dont know their system, their trauma, their experiences, you dont get to make those claims.

You can decide for your system that it isnt real, that your alters cant/wont get pregnant, you cant decide that for other systems and you especially cant decide that for someone else's alters who want children and who are coping.

To further clarify what I'm trying to convey by saying headspace and things that happen in it are real and that the arguments made against it are what I'm trying to fight, this post makes good points.

Endos, nontraumagenics, mixed origin, supporters and what have you dont interact, this isnt for you.

Endo neutrals and "singlets"/non systems you're on thin ice. Non systems can reblog but not add.

but it's not info that's mad dangerous to share online

NOT ENDO SAFE I DON'T LIKE U

🕯️what do you primarily use for system organization? what do you like / dislike about it?

🗝️ how consistent are you with logging switches / do you even bother?

🔮 if you have fictives, how do they tend to feel about sourcemates? is there a general agreement or no?

🐇 what's your go-to method for figuring out appearance for parts? picrew, pinterest, drawing them? something else?

🎻 are there any songs you feel show your perception of your CDD?

🎀 how organized would you say your sp / octo / whatever organization you use is?

🌘 is there a colour preference most of you can agree on?

🗡️ how would you describe how you dress? bonus: which two parts have the most opposite styles?

🦋 who in the system has messed up the sleep cycle the worst?

🍓 which part has the best music taste?

🐠 what's one thing you wish you knew when you first found out about your CDD?

🍄 what's one thing that takes way longer than usual due to your CDD?

🌙 what's your "welcome to the system" talk look like? (if you have one)

🌱 how different are your food preferences?

🍉 if you have a collective name / theme, how did you decide on it?

🛰-Do you have a large headcount?

👾-Do any alters in your system have typing quirks?

🚀-Does your system have any Non-human alters?

☄️-Is your system neurodivergent?

🔭-Does your system use neo Pronouns?

🌠-Do any of the alters in your system have dyed hair?

🌙-Are there any nonverbal alters in your system?

🪐-Does your system have Angry or "dangerous" persecutors?

💫-Do your littles use 'little-speech?'

🌌-Does your system have little to no amnesia between switches?

🌟-Does your system have fairly clear communication?

🌘-Do you have a large or complex headspace?

🛸-Do any alters in your system have exo-memories?

👽Does your system have any tics?

☀️-is your system bad at masking?

✨️-Do any alters in your system have an accent?

🌎-Do any alters in your system speak in a different language?

☁️-Does your system use things like pluralkit and simply plural?

⭐️-are you out about being a system?

This will probably flop but!!! I had fun making it<3

I know it’s hard, but your brain did what it had to in order to get you here. That’s amazing. I’m so glad that you’re here. How incredible of your mind to protect you as hard as it did, even though none of those things should have ever happened to you at all. I hope that all of you are able to find or have found the communities, hobbies, friendships, passions, etc. that make you feel at home. In the meantime, here’s a few gentle reminders:

There is nothing you have faced that you have not overcome.

You’ve made it this far because of who you are and how you work, not in spite of it.

Your trauma doesn’t define you, even if it informs you.

It’s not a race, it’s a journey.

You don’t have to love yourself, but you don’t have to hate yourself either.

You are you, and that’s enough.

You matter.

You’re not alone.

Healing takes time, and it’s time that you have.

does anyone else refer to their headspace kind of like an alter? for instance alot of times we'll say stuff like

"oh headspace doesn't want you to know that"

"headspace won't let me say it"