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Demifictive: A general term for a fictive who is not fully what they are a fictive of for any reason. 

An example could be someone who only loosely identifies as such, or someone who is a hybrid or post fictive. 

Polyfictive: A fictive who is made up of two or more things found in fiction. 

Similar to polykin, which is what inspired this term. An example would be a fictive who is a combination of two fictional characters. 

Hybrid Fictive: A fictive that is combined with something else, not always another fictional character. 

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three systems were formed after the theorised cut-off age of 9:

a DID system that formed at 12/13 years of age

a non-traumagenic system that formed at age 17 (qualifies for a DID diagnosis but chose not to have an official diagnosis)

a non-traumagenic system who formed at 15

one system describes themselves as being multiple since birth:

“All of us had been placed here in this body before we were born, … I think we were born multiple.”

one system doesn’t qualify for either a DID or an OSDD/DDNOS diagnosis, even though they formed in childhood and had an abusive family.

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other interesting quotes:

“Most systems do not report amnesic barriers or recall traumatic events, and they insist that their multiplicity is something they were born with.”

“Certain cases [in the study] appeared to exist as a result of trauma, but in most cases, there did not seem to be any preceding traumatic event.”

“Multiples can be placed along a continuum between identity disturbance and DID, although most systems function relatively well in everyday life, thus casting doubt over the presence of a pathology.” (my emphasis)

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The quote “ Most systems do not report amnesic barriers or recall traumatic events, and they insist that their multiplicity is something they were born with.” is interesting but unreliable because of the small sample size. Yes, these systems do not have amnesia or trauma, but we cannot say “most”.

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three systems were formed after the theorised cut-off age of 9:

a DID system that formed at 12/13 years of age

a non-traumagenic system that formed at age 17 (qualifies for a DID diagnosis but chose not to have an official diagnosis)

a non-traumagenic system who formed at 15

one system describes themselves as being multiple since birth:

“All of us had been placed here in this body before we were born, … I think we were born multiple.”

one system doesn’t qualify for either a DID or an OSDD/DDNOS diagnosis, even though they formed in childhood and had an abusive family.

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other interesting quotes:

“Most systems do not report amnesic barriers or recall traumatic events, and they insist that their multiplicity is something they were born with.”

“Certain cases [in the study] appeared to exist as a result of trauma, but in most cases, there did not seem to be any preceding traumatic event.”

“Multiples can be placed along a continuum between identity disturbance and DID, although most systems function relatively well in everyday life, thus casting doubt over the presence of a pathology.” (my emphasis)

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System "modifiers," also called system types, are extra labels or function-related aspects systems may have, which aren't related to origins. Some common examples are median, gateway, and polyfragmented

We've created a bunch of flags for these, all of which you can find here in a post linked at the bottom

These flags look a bit different from our origin [support] flags- to start with, they're typically square, and they come in "full" and "half" variants. They're also created without any gradient stripes, and use only two colors outside of white

How do we use them?

Simple! They're intended to be used by themselves (as part of icons, for example), or they can be overlayed on top of origin [support] flags. In the latter instance, the modifiers are made specifically for our simplified ones, but they can be extended to cover the normal 7 stripe flags as well

Here are some examples:

DID flag as an icon

DID flag as a modifier (traumagenic flag used)

You can even put an icon on it!

Or you can do several- here's one with the DID and polyfrag modifiers

Mix it up a bit! This takes stripes from the fictive-heavy flag and replaces the innermost stripes with them

So, how do you use them? Pretty much however you want!

Who can use them?

Anyone that's part of a system! However, we do ask that anti-endogenics refrain from using them, because it makes us uncomfy. The flag I created above describes us- we're traumagenic, polyfrag, fictive-heavy, and have DID, plus the icon is of the alter writing this- but we're still not comfortable having people like that use our stuff. There are a lot more problems with anti-endogenics than just their hatred of endogenic systems, and we've personally been hurt by their witch hunts and attacks

TL;DR: if you're plural, and aren't anti-endo, go nuts!

Where can we find the rest of your flags?

Right here:

That links to all of our flag posts directly, so you can find ones you're looking for

What if I have an idea for a modifier?

You can send in a request! However, please note that we have the right to turn requests down, and that requests may take a while to get to due to us having a lot of stuff we need to do on a regular basis