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being a system is having one of your headmates say the wildest shit known to man and just going "WHAT." while turning around to look at nothing
this post is NOT for anti endos!!
[pt: this post is not for anti endos!!]
"Source trauma" and "exo trauma" is real btw.
You can have trauma from something that didn't actually happen because trauma is a reaction to a distressing event, regardless of the actual event happened. Both are comparable to real trauma, so for the love of god stop acting like introjects can't be traumatized from source.
Fictional introjects can be IN their source, they can come from their source. They are no different from other alters.
They can have real experiences as being that character because they're can be that character and if they genuinely believe they do/are, that's not a bad thing and whether source separation is needed, the alter will come to their own conclusion some day.
Do people forget muscle memory exists
"Why do you and all your alters write basically the same way?"
Perchance because our hand has been writing that way since we learned how to write. Just a thought though
Can't think too hard about our own plurality or we might have a mental breakdown
Like, who are we at any point? We blend so much and so easily it's not even just our default state, we're never anything else
Does who we were still exist? Did they ever? Who am I? Am "I" one of these facets? Am I a shell? Am I the remnant of who we used to be, the original, or just another headmate?
The sucky thing about being plural and trans is that not everyone inside has figured out my pronouns and some still unintentionally default to feminine terms and she/her pronouns for me and some of the other guys, which just really sucks. I know one or two headmates use she/her pronouns but boy do I want the one caretaker I don’t know well to stop calling me a girl when comforting me :((
Shout out to headmates who are sourced but aren't introjects!
This could mean kin identities or even just deciding that you are/look like/are sourced from a thing you like now, just because you said so!
Maybe you are an introject and decided to have another source.★
Anyone have headmates who just sit in co-con with a song playing in their head that everyone can hear? Like audibly? Because its become a running joke to play effectively elevator music while nothing is happening with the body. Other headmates will play an alarm sound when it's time to wake up. Is this just an us thing? Being able to project semi-audible sound clips to front? Its kinda fun but sometimes I just Hear Something and I go "the hell was- oh its you" and it makes me giggle. Anyone?
We are the Dunedain, the rangers, the guardians
General about the system (though we use the term crew these days):
We’re queer. The most common pronoun set in our system is he/him. The only person I know who gets bothered by he/him pronouns is a little who isn’t allowed on this account without supervision. This is an endo safe account.
The earliest memory we have of a headmate was when the body was nine (the body is now in its early twenties). We have trauma but we’re not sure if we’re traumagetic or not. There’s like, fourteen of us with simply plural accounts? I know there Are more but I don’t know much about them.
Bodily we’re in our early twenties but there’s a big range between individual crew members.
Captain (alternate title for host) and Council Leader: Jay (he/him)
I was dragged kicking and screaming into being plural, but I’ve realized that every time I flip out and suppress it doing so harms me and everyone else, so I’m trying not to do that. It’s harder sometimes than others but my mental health is so much better when I’m calm about things. I tend to be front stuck and it’s hard to tell if I have amnesia or if the blanks in my day are just adhd.
I don’t like dealing with syscourse, I stay away from it and will block people who harass us because it’s really unhelpful to us.
First Mate and Other Council Leader: Shekel (he/him)
(Still Jay typing) I’ll have him fill out a bio at some point, but for now I’ll just say that he’s one of our most common fronters, identifies as alterhuman, is a protector, and is the most helpful and wonderful joint-council leader I could have asked for. <3
Ex-persecutor: Travis (he/him)
I wasn't going to mention him by name, but he wrote himself a bio, so I figured I'd link that here. In fact, he might be writing this right here. No one will ever know for certain >:)))
Others:
We have formally instated a Council of Nine (yes it started as a silly joke, but actually it’s gonna be helpful).
It includes:
Jay, Shekel, Travis, an age-slider, a caretaker, a little, our longest present headmate, our most extroverted member, and the closest thing we have to a gatekeeper (we think. Their role is still a bit uncertain).
Important decisions need to be made by at least a few council members, and communications on here are unlikely to involve headmates that aren’t on the council.
Just got told by a sys friend that I was like a celebrity in their mind, tweaking out because I'm honored, but also DONT PERCEIVE ME!!!
Please RB if your blog is a safe space for all non-traumagenic, mixed origin, etc. systems
I get people come to me for places to learn about systems, I need to give them some blogs that won't turn them into a sysmed