everythingplural

[everythingplural]

Hello! I am new to this entire system thing and I kinda need...help? I mean, I am pretty certain we are a trauma based (or one that started because of mostly childhood neglect) OSDD system. The host is constantly aware of what is happening, even when the alters are taking over. It feels like I am in the passenger seat of my own body and definitely feel the presence of others being there (well or the one who's fronting ya know-). Yet I still have doubts just because the communication is (1/2)

(2/2) a little bit too... non-existent? I have heard of people having at least one person there 24/7 and being able to have entire conversations with their headmates. Is this something you can/need to practice? Because sometimes hear them and can answer, but at other times I could also be putting things in their mouths... It's as though I can not quite connect to them (yet), which saddens me. Any advice? I am not making all of this up right? For that happened too much...* sighs*

Okay to get this out of the way first since it’s kinda the easiest. No, you are not making this up. You have to be consciously and willingly making it up and obviously it does not seem that you are.

Okay onto the actual stuff.

“It feels like I am in the passenger seat of my own body” is a really common way I’ve seen people describe cofronting. I’ve seen car examples and even bus examples with it.

Having a hard time communicating is also a really common thing I’ve seen among multiple systems. Probably more common than the bus example, actually. You can practice talking to them in your head, but I’ve seen people also write in sticky notes, or journals, or Microsoft notepad or what have you. I’d probably recommend trying both out.

#mod m #Anonymous

[everythingplural]

So I've been questioning the fact that I have some kind of DID without the memory loss (which as far as I have researched should be OSDD1-B, but, ya know-) and I have had multiple "characters"/alters fronting lately [yes, in the past as well]. Now I am scared to tell my psychiatrist about this, just in case he doesn't believe me or I will end up with some bad shit consequences... Should I do it? What if he thinks I am faking it? I don't know much about all of this yet and - agh. Help pls!?

I’ve never had a good psychiatrist experience in my life but I know others have had better ones than I.

I don’t really.... have good advice for this since I don’t know your psychiatrist. I’ve heard stories of psychs being understanding, psychs that don’t know about DID and just allude to schizophrenia because of “voices”, psychiatrists who do think their patients are faking it because it’s a ~rare~ disease.

I’ll probably just let my followers answer this one since I really do not have an answer.

#mod m #psychs #Anonymous

[everythingplural]

I have some asks that I never answered in my ask box

I’m going to answer them now

And then afterwards I’ll probably going on another indefinite hiatus since I’ve been barred from fronting

#mod m

[everythingplural]

Hi I have a question: it is hard for us to find a system name so I was wondering if you had any pointers to help us out? Thank you so much!!

I put off this question for a bit because I wasn’t in the right state of mind (exhaustion, or just brain fog), but now that I’m in a less slothful (although not entirely productive) state of mind, I do have an answer for this.

I think one way of choosing a name is thinking about something you all have in common. Whether its an interest, or a concept, or word, or character, or whatever.

For example, a member in my system joked about how we all love the character Luigi from Super Mario Brothers and how we should be called the “Luigi System”. And it would probably have worked except we…. already have a system name and didn’t want to change it.

There are probably… way different ways of doing this too, since I haven’t seen other systems use this method. It’s just something I had thought about recently. A lot of the more prominent system names I’ve seen are wordplay on systems or multiplicity itself (the solar system, ect) but… at the same time using something so simple or obvious runs the risk of someone else having that system name as well. I might be opinionated on that though, since we (as in me and my system) like having a name that other people wouldn’t think to pick.

People are free to reblog and put in input, as always~

#queue

[everythingplural]

You have a glossary? Do you mind giving a link? ✧(✪ ᗜ ✪ )

It’s on the blog yeah

http://everythingplural.tumblr.com/glossary

Maybe I’ll make it accessible on mobile when I get the spoons

#mod m #pastel-system

[everythingplural]

guess who hopped on the system comic bandwagon, sort of

-max

[everythingplural]

Hi I have a question: it is hard for us to find a system name so I was wondering if you had any pointers to help us out? Thank you so much!!

I put off this question for a bit because I wasn’t in the right state of mind (exhaustion, or just brain fog), but now that I’m in a less slothful (although not entirely productive) state of mind, I do have an answer for this.

I think one way of choosing a name is thinking about something you all have in common. Whether its an interest, or a concept, or word, or character, or whatever.

For example, a member in my system joked about how we all love the character Luigi from Super Mario Brothers and how we should be called the “Luigi System”. And it would probably have worked except we…. already have a system name and didn’t want to change it.

There are probably… way different ways of doing this too, since I haven’t seen other systems use this method. It’s just something I had thought about recently. A lot of the more prominent system names I’ve seen are wordplay on systems or multiplicity itself (the solar system, ect) but… at the same time using something so simple or obvious runs the risk of someone else having that system name as well. I might be opinionated on that though, since we (as in me and my system) like having a name that other people wouldn’t think to pick.

People are free to reblog and put in input, as always~

#mod m #system names

[everythingplural]

odette came back yesterday and drew this comic with me last night.

this is a problem we run into a lot since we’re in arts college now- whose passion do we follow? whose art is going to have to be pushed to the wayside simply because we don’t have the time or energy to do everything?

transcription & systemmate identifiers below.

Keep reading

[everythingplural]

So, im a system. I have a friend thats questioning if theyre a system. Theyre a roleplayer too though, so thats where it gets difficult. They dont know if these people in their head are headmates, or just very detailed muses. Theyve tried asking them, and the answers they give are just... not helpful. Im a roleplayer too, and ive gotten to a point where I can just tell if somethings a headmate or a muse, so I dont know what to say. Any advice, or maybe other blogs that could answer? ;;

Ask yourself these questions:

Can they front? (Control the body, move limbs, write, talk to other people, including offline/in real life)

Alternatively, are they aware of their surroundings? (As in, real world as opposed to positioned setting)

Can they make their own decisions, even if it goes against what the rper originally intended for them?

Do they have strong feelings towards the rper? Or, if not an OC, original creator? (Strong feelings being affection, hatred, but indifference can also appear)

Is the supposed headmate not 100% the same as how they were intended to be? Are they mostly similar, but with a few minor details? (Like say, “Oh yeah you got that right, but I don’t actually like [this thing]” or “Actually you wrote me completely wrong let me show you how its done”)

Lastly, does the supposed headmate claim to be in control of themselves? And does the rper claim to be in total control of their supposed headmate?

These are just some questions to help you (or your friend in this case) figure out whether or not they’re conscious. None of these are criteria; it’s just more likely for them to be sentient if a lot of these are “yes”. I mainly based these questions off myself and other people in this system. There are probably even more than these that you can ask.

I made a similar post here but it specifies OCs, since that is what our system and the host is most familiar with writing/rping. 

[everythingplural]

That’s.... really messed up. I’m sorry.

Don’t invalidate alter’s past life traumas even if they didn’t happen in-body/in-system.

Thanks.

#mod m #ask to tag

[everythingplural]

So, im a system. I have a friend thats questioning if theyre a system. Theyre a roleplayer too though, so thats where it gets difficult. They dont know if these people in their head are headmates, or just very detailed muses. Theyve tried asking them, and the answers they give are just... not helpful. Im a roleplayer too, and ive gotten to a point where I can just tell if somethings a headmate or a muse, so I dont know what to say. Any advice, or maybe other blogs that could answer? ;;

Ask yourself these questions:

Can they front? (Control the body, move limbs, write, talk to other people, including offline/in real life)

Alternatively, are they aware of their surroundings? (As in, real world as opposed to positioned setting)

Can they make their own decisions, even if it goes against what the rper originally intended for them?

Do they have strong feelings towards the rper? Or, if not an OC, original creator? (Strong feelings being affection, hatred, but indifference can also appear)

Is the supposed headmate not 100% the same as how they were intended to be? Are they mostly similar, but with a few minor details? (Like say, “Oh yeah you got that right, but I don’t actually like [this thing]” or “Actually you wrote me completely wrong let me show you how its done”)

Lastly, does the supposed headmate claim to be in control of themselves? And does the rper claim to be in total control of their supposed headmate?

These are just some questions to help you (or your friend in this case) figure out whether or not they’re conscious. None of these are criteria; it’s just more likely for them to be sentient if a lot of these are “yes”. I mainly based these questions off myself and other people in this system. There are probably even more than these that you can ask.

I made a similar post here but it specifies OCs, since that is what our system and the host is most familiar with writing/rping. 

#mod m #Anonymous #okay to reblog

[everythingplural]

Don’t invalidate alter’s past life traumas even if they didn’t happen in-body/in-system.

Thanks.

[everythingplural]

I added a rushed glossary because that was already overdue.

It’s generally the draft that was put in an old google document. I do sort of want to revise some of the system terms because I do not know how accurate those are, especially for things like host/main/original.

I have to leave in less than 15 minutes though

#mod m

[everythingplural]

Don't invalidate alter's past life traumas even if they didn't happen in-body/in-system.

Thanks.

#systematicpride #mod m #okay to reblog

[everythingplural]

This is delayed but

A good system stim blog is @systimming

[everythingplural]

I haven’t been fronting recently sorry

#mod m

[everythingplural]

Systems are more than just stereotypes

Systems are complex, and should never be reduced to anything less.