#OSDD-1A

[systempositive]

You don’t need a system name, you don’t need a system aesthetic, you don’t need a collective identity. You don’t need to put your whole system– or any aspect of it– online in order to be a system.

You can just exist, you don’t need to make every aspect of your system public. You’re still a system even without a system name or collective pronouns or a system blog.

#endo safe #tulpa safe #endo #endogenic #endogenic safe #plural system #plurality #plural #pluralgang #system #tulpa #tulpa system #enexaswe #enexto #tulpamancy #did #osdd #did system #osdd system #osdd-1a #osdd-1b

[neopronouns]

flag id: a flag with 6 stripes, which are faded indigo, tan, white, red, dark pink, and near-black. end id.

banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.

osdd-1a + bpd flag for anon!

tags: @mad-pride, @radiomogai | dni link

#osdd-1a bpd #osdd-1a #bpd #my flags #my edits #flag edit #flag combo #mad pride #mad pride flag #mad flag #liom flag #liom

[sysboxes]

[Text: This OSDD-1a system wishes there was an OSDD-1a community]

Like/Reblog if you save or use!

#system #osdd-1a #osdd-1a system #osdd 1a #osdd 1a system #anti endo #endos dni #mod morpho 🦋

[daydreamers-sys]

Yet another plural ask game! 🐾

Anti-endo/anti-nontraumagenic please DNI!

You absolutely don’t have to answer any you’re uncomfortable with.

Do you have an innerworld? What’s it like?

Do you have a paracosm? Is it different from the innerworld (if applicable)?

How many headmates do you have/are you aware of including yourself? You don’t have to count anyone who doesn’t want to be counted.

Have you ever created a headmate before?

Have you ever introjected someone on purpose (possibly through soulbonding or other methods)?

Are you mixed-origin or do all of your headmates come from a single origin?

Do you prefer “-genic” terms, or Emmengard’s terms (Unknown, Adaptive, Spontaneous, Created, Mixed)?

Do you have any introjects? How many?

If you have any introjects, how many are from the same source?

Which source has the most introjects?

Are any of you alterhuman? (Otherkin, therian, nonhuman fictionkin, extranth, etc)

Do you have any animal headmates (non-anthro and non-alterhuman, for example just a regular cat)? Do they front?

Are you “out” as plural to anyone you know in person?

Do you know any other plurals in person?

For anyone with exomemories: were you plural back then, too?

What’s the most common favorite color in the collective?

What’s the most unique aesthetic in the collective?

Do any of you have a “dark” aesthetic but are actually a huge sweetheart?

Who is the most calm, and who is the most wild?

Asker gets to ask anything they want!

#endo safe #pro endo #endogenic system #endogenic systems #enexto #enexaswe #tulpa #tulpamancy #tulpa safe #pro tulpa #DID #DID system #Dissociative Identity Disorder #OSDD #OSDD-1 #OSDD-1a #OSDD-1b #OSDD system #OSDD-1 system #pluralgang #plural gang #plurality #plural system #systemblr

[sleepy-shutin]

here’s something interesting i feel like some more people in the community should probably think about:

something really interesting i’ve had to learn over the years is that, no, i didn’t actually have that many fictives lol. what i did have was dissociation-related identity issues and severe derealization and latched onto fictional characters because i felt like the rest of the world wasn’t real, like i was in some kind of a TV show or video game or something.

weirdly enough, it hasn’t gotten better since getting a job and getting out of the house, and in fact it kinda feels like it’s gotten worse. every day, i struggle with understanding that people other than me/my family are real and that i have to legitimately deal with them, and that my job is not some video game and is actually something that i have to take seriously.

either way i find it really interesting to consider that some people don’t have as many fictives (or non-fictives) as they think they do. it’s not a bad thing, just part of the process of getting all your shit sorted out, especially if you don’t have a therapist. but i think too many people are afraid to admit that they could be wrong about how many alters they have for some reason. if they think they have an alter of something than they must, and they can never be wrong about it because why would they? they know themselves best, right?

not necessarily true.

all the time, people mistake things for alters that were not alters. people who have been diagnosed for years can mistake something for an alter when it’s not an alter at all. it’s simply a part of the process, and people need to acknowledge that you can be wrong about having (a) certain part(s), and that’s fine.

like i said at the beginning of this post, this very thing has happened to me. i thought i had alters i didn’t, particularly fictives, and had to eventually restart my alter count a couple of years ago because i didn’t have my shit figured out, and was so sick of being unable to tell what was real and what isn’t. 

here’s some things that should’ve been my own hint that the alters i thought i had were not real:

if you have fictives that go 'dormant’ when the fixation on their source material goes away,

if they only front to interact with their source material,

if they only front because their source material triggered them out,

if you’re only ever ‘splitting’ fictive alters, especially if you’re in spaces where fictives are the majority,

or if you constantly expect to split fictives over any other kind of alter...

...then that/those fictive(s) might not actually be there.

causes could be related to being in fictive-heavy spaces causing you to feel like you’re only going to split fictives or identity issues related to severe, chronic dissociation causing you to identify with fictional characters heavily without actually introjecting them. both of these were the reasons i thought i had more fictives than i did in the beginning.

obviously, not a one-size-fits-all type deal and there are probably plenty of cases where this is flat-out wrong. i’m mostly just writing this so that someone out there like me doesn’t have to waste their time thinking they have more parts, or more of one specific kind of part, than they actually do, thus stunting their own recovery like i did for a handful of years.

it’s also not to shame anyone or fakeclaim anyone or whatever. there’s no shame in being wrong, and being wrong about having a specific alter or a handful of a certain type of alter doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re faking everything or whatever. it’s just something to consider, especially if you’re new to the system community, like a year or less into realizing you have a complex dissociative disorder.

#part zero #actuallydid #actuallymultiple #actuallytraumagenic #actuallydissociative #actuallyosdd #did system #osdd system #dissociative identity disorder #osdd-1 #osdd-1a #osdd-1b #ddnos #syscourse

[battywingzzz]

me and the headmates

#honduran white bats #honduran white bat #system #traumagenic system #did #osdd-1b #osdd-1a #pdid #anti endos #endos dni

[scungledfiles]

OSDD-1a and OSDD-1b Alert User Boxes!

Requests are open!

#ash #! alert window #exposure tags || #osdd #osdd-1 #osdd-1a #osdd-1b #osdd1 #osdd1a #osdd1b #ossd system #osdd 1a #osddid #osdd 1b #osdd system #system #system userbox #system uxerboses #osdd userbox #web #webcore #web aes #web aesthetic #old web #old internet #old net #userbox #user box #box #user

[radinclusys]

Radinclusys Flag Update!

We decided to include the Plural Rings symbol on our Radinclusys flag now! The symbol is optional, of course, so anyone may continue to use the "old" (but not obsolete) flag.

We also created a new "simplified" version of the Radinclusys flag, with and without the symbol.

Radinclusys -- Rad- from "radical," -inclu- from "inclusive," and -sys from "system." To be Radinclusys is to be radically inclusive of all system origins, functions, and types; bar-none.

#enexto #enexaswe #endo safe #pro endo #tulpa safe #pro tulpa #endogenic #traumagenic #DID #OSDD #OSDD-1 #OSDD-1a #OSDD-1b #DID system #OSDD system #OSDD-1 system #OSDD-1a system #OSDD-1b system #tulpa #radinclu #radinclus #radinclusys #traumageninclusive #OSDDIDinclusive #actually plural #pluralgang #plural gang #plurality #endo

[systempositive]

Nonhuman systems– whether you’re otherkin, therian, extranthropes, fictives of nonhuman characters, animal alters, or anything else– I know it’s hard to be in a limiting, human body. I know the dysphoria of it firsthand. Especially if you’re a mixed bag of different nonhuman entities and not all one species, it can get very confusing and even conflicting.

You’re not alone and there are other systems who know this struggle, too. There are ways to feel better in your own skin for now and I hope you can find something that works for you.

Nonhuman headmates aren’t as “rare” as others make them out to be. Having a system that is mostly or entirely comprised of nonhumans is really cool. You are really cool.

#endo safe #tulpa safe #endo #endogenic #endogenic safe #plural system #plurality #plural #pluralgang #system #tulpa #enexaswe #enexto #tulpamancy #did #did system #osdd #osdd system #osdd-1a #osdd-1b

[rainbowmewz]

edward nygma (gotham) and OSDD-1a

hi! welcome to my hellhole!! i’ve been thinking about the topic of this post for a while and i just needed to yell about it here bc yelling about it on twitter under a meme post wasn’t enough for me xD

SO! let’s talk about this. i was highly generalizing in the tweet above because i personally don’t think edward nygma suffers from dissociative identity disorder. instead, i believe he suffers from other specified dissociative disorder, specifically subtype 1a.

below the “keep reading”, i will discuss a general overview of DID and OSDD, why i think this is the case for edward nygma, and a review of the representation of it in gotham. be warned that this post has a general trigger warning for discussions of abuse, self-harm, suicide, and drug abuse. this discussion is not in depth at all, but just as a warning if you wanna avoid this post! this post also has a trigger warning for discussions of negative portrayals of DID/OSDD (such as in films like m. night shyamalan’s split and discussions of tropes such as “evil alters”).

OSDD-1 is a subtype of OSDD that is very similar to DID. to get a general gist of what OSDD is, we first have to define DID. DID (dissociative identity disorder), which used to be referred to as MPD (multiple personality disorder), is a dissociative disorder that forms in early childhood as a reaction to prolonged and/or severe trauma (abuse, for example). this causes a child’s brain to split into multiple parts, called alters, and experience amnesia/dissociation between these parts. in OSDD-1 (other specified dissociative disorder), there’s two subtypes, 1a and 1b. in 1a, there’s dissociation between parts, but their parts aren’t as distinct as someone who has DID. on the other end of the spectrum, in 1b, alters are highly distinct but experience little to no amnesia between them. as stated previously, i believe gotham’s portrayal of edward nygma/the riddler has OSDD-1a.

to avoid confusion, in this post, i’ll be referring to the two as a whole as “edward nygma”, “edward”, or “nygma”; i’ll refer to the alter we’re first introduced to as “ed”; and the alter we’re introduced to next as “the riddler” or “riddler”.

while we don’t know anything about edward’s childhood in gotham, many other portrayals of the character (arkhamverse, general comic lore, etc.) mention an abusive past, specifically at the hands of his father. in general comic lore, this abuse explains where his compulsions for showing his intelligence comes from. if this backstory is true for gotham’s portrayal of nygma, which we will assume for this analysis, this is the trauma element of OSDD.

our first introduction to the idea of edward having a dissociative disorder is in season 2 episode 1. while this is our first introduction to the difference between ed and the riddler, the two seem to have a history of co-existing before this scene (ed tells riddler stuff such as: “i get nervous when you talk to me with other people around like that” and “i know where this is going. i told you, leave ms. kringle alone”).

now that we have those basics down (trauma and evidence of a long-standing dissociative disorder), i’ll be referring to an article written by DID-Research.org titled “DID Versus OSDD-1″. this will hopefully help my thoughts be more concise, since i tend to.. go all over the place with this stuff. i tried to write my thoughts on this topic in a discord server before and it went in 50 different directions x3

DID-Research’s article discusses how the parts in OSDD-1a are different from disorders such as borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and complex posttraumatic stress disorder. while OSDD-1a’s parts are way less differentiated as ones in DID or OSDD-1b, since individuals “are more likely to present as the same individual”, these parts can have “different skills, emotional reactivity, or ways of interacting with the world”. to me, this sounds exactly like what riddler and ed go through throughout gotham. as early as season 2, riddler is shown as more confident, brash, and witty than his counterpart. ed is more focused on living a normal life, he wants to live out this fantasy with kristen, then isabella, then lee. this is all he craves, to be seen as normal and not a freak. riddler on the other hand, isn’t as concerned. sure, he originally wants to pursue kristen, but in a way to introduce a sense of excitement and power in him and ed’s life.

this mention of ed’s craving for a normal life is something.. very interesting as well. according to the theory of structural dissociation, there’s two types of parts a person with OSDD/DID could have. these are referred to as Apparently Normal Parts (ANPs, these alters take care of daily life, often are avoidant (or unaware) of trauma, and have a need to appear high-functioning (sound like anyone we know?)) and Emotional Parts (EPs, these alters represent dissociation and trauma through memories, internalized beliefs, and learned responses). ed seems much like an ANP, while riddler seems more like an EP. an article discussing the differences of ANPs and EPs states that an ANP “might engage in self harm or use psychogenic substances in attempts to forcefully tether themselves to the present and prevent EP from intruding”. this sounds very familiar, does it not? his abuse of hallucinogens in season 3 to see oswald again, using pills again in season 4 to try and get rid of the riddler, and if i remember correctly, plotting to kill himself in season 4 as well.

as i stated, the article talks about how OSDD-1a is different from an identity disturbance in disorders such as BPD, PTSD, and C-PTSD. the article specifically says that people with these disorders might feel a loss of control, but never “feel that different parts of them are capable of acting independently or that different parts of them have and express their own views or goals”. this exact quote proves that what nygma might be experiencing is OSDD-1a. our introduction to the two psyches of edward nygma show their differing goals and views. as another example, in season 5, riddler is completely unaware of ed’s plan to destroy haven and is shown as extremely distraught when he appears in different places without knowledge of what happened beforehand.

so.. it seems obvious that edward nygma has OSDD-1a, right? so... how would i, as a psychology major, someone who possibly has DID/OSDD, and someone who’s known multiple people with DID/OSDD, review this representation?

i’d say... it’s pretty good for what it’s worth!! gotham as a tv show has always dealt with terrible writing and a lot of things could have been written better, but this topic is surprisingly one they handled pretty okay. there was... a lot of room for more and it’s quite strange to see the dissociative disorder representation go to edward nygma instead of a character such as harvey dent (who’s a whole other can of worms and has been stated to have “MPD” in the past).

it’s really refreshing to see representation of DID/OSDD that doesn’t rely on played out and disgusting tropes such as “evil alters”. while it seems like riddler might play out as an evil alter, both ed and riddler are both messed up in their own ways. there’s no evil alter to stop, they’re both.. villains in their own ways (blowing up a place w/ the most vulnerable members of the city vs hiding your dead gf’s body parts over a police precinct, pick your poison). i also enjoy how cory michael smith portrays the two psyches of edward nygma and portrays the way the two switch in and out!

you’re free to disagree with my opinion as well. i’d love to have a discussion in the comments or reblogs :DD!! i just... really enjoyed writing this up. if i missed anything, just tell me :33

#gotham #got ham posting #edward nygma #the riddler #gotham 2014 #gotham fox #gotham analysis #tv analysis #osdd-1a #psychology #character analysis #psych analysis #other specified dissociative disorder #disociative identity disorder #tw suicide mention #tw abuse mention #tw self harm mention #tw drug abuse mention

[afacetedgem]

blinkies I made with blinkies cafe

#osdd-1a #traumagenic median #median #monoconscious #median system #blinkies #gif #eyestrain #flashing gif #made this blog to bypass journalling being a Blocked Action #but decided I'll tag some things cuz theres so little rep of this type of system #especially older (and older in system spaces seems to be 25+) #i guess i should explain what a blocked action is... #its hard to explain but a form of autistic inertia i experience

[spirallingmoths]

I'm just curious. Also aspec systems in qprs, you can also fill this out, I just didn't know how to add that as another option

#🦇.txt #OSDD-1b #OSDD-1A #<- either or can respond to this #other specified dissociative disorder #DID #D.I.D #dissociative identity disorder #CDD system #sysblr #systemblr #system dating #?????????????????? #im so good at tags gillies #i was gonna say girlies but gillies works too #[📝]

[doomsdayradio]

anyways shoutout to all the OSDD-1 systems out there tonight 🙌🙌 your disorder and struggles are valid even if you dont have the amnesia traditionally associated with systems and that lack of amnesia does not make you "indistinguishable from nondisordered systems"

#words words words !! #🧋 #syscourse #osdd #osdd-1 #osdd-1b #osdd-1a #syscourse unaligned #syscourse neutral

[daydreamers-sys]

WTH (What the Heck) and WTH (What the Hell)!!!

They both represent OSDD, and are both named WTH to represent how OSDD-1a and 1b are two presentations of the same disorder.

If you want to draw them, their bodies both look the same (good ref is OSDD-1b) and they have two toes on each paw (OSDD-1a shows them)!

#endo safe #pro endo #OSDD #OSDD-1a #OSDD-1b #other specified dissociative disorder

[plural-culture-is]

Hi! I recently found out that I'm very likely OSDD. My therapist stated that he doesn't think I'm distinct enough for a DID diagnosis, which I guess he's right as I still feel like they're all parts of me (and I'm not used to using "we" to call myself... yet?). I'm also not aware of any amnesia for full switching (twice and those only lasted for like less than an hour and I'm at contralling front again, if you know what I mean lol), so I guess I might be OSDD 1a and 1b.

The thing is, that makes us difficult to tell who is who, unless someone being relatively distinct speaks inside my headspace then I can tell by the tone or the contex (there's a "demon" and a "gaurdian angel"), and my little self doesn't show her preference difference except for that one time of short period of full switch. We don't really have our own names other than the name that this person has been living with. What else can we do to try to find out who are blended in co front/co con?

Also, how do we tell if one is DID but almost always co front/co con, or if that's OSDD 1b? Does OSDD 1b basically means DID/OSDD 1a but always co front/co con?

Figuring out who's who is something that generally gets easier with practice, but some things you can do is finding or writing a list of questions you can look over when you're blurry. These questions would be things like preferences, interests, age, pronouns, appearance, etc, whatever might be helpful for you. It's okay to not know the answers to the questions, but even just going with what seems sort of right can be helpful. You could also try looking through your system list to see who fits you best. And maybe if this isn't working because you aren't distinct enough, if you want to try to become more distinct, you could try things like finding names and separate interests. But as a side note, it's okay not to know who you are, you don't always have to know, and learning to be okay with sitting in the blurriness can be helpful.

OSDD-1b is DID but without amnesia. DID with rare complete switching is called partial-DID.

We used to think our host was permanently frontstuck and we could only co-front with him, until we found out we're monoconscious. That means we share a consciousness, so when we switch, we feel ourselves become the new fronter, rather than it feeling like someone is taking control of your body and the last fronter going into the innerworld or going unconscious. Although if you are able to do possession, as in you feel like another headmate is taking some or full control of the body from you, then you wouldn't be monoconscious, and you would always just be co-front in your case, and may have amnesia but you may only be able to tell after a full switch (which it sounds like you've experienced).

It does sound like you have OSDD-1a because your headmates aren't that distinct and they feel like parts of you, and you have some amnesia. Remember you aren't always aware of amnesia, and even if you do only have a small amount, it could still be enough to qualify for an OSDD-1a diagnosis.

#not plural culture #osdd-1a #co-fronting #frontstuck or monocon #unblurring #plural system #plurality #actuallyplural #anonymous

[warehouse-sys]

Question for folks with OSDD (either form because we’re not sure what form we have) what does it feel like when you’re not fronting? I know that OSDD lacks the blackouts seen in DID, so how does it feel? Is it still like you are in blackness for a while until you re-enter front? Or is it more like, you still believe you’re fronting in the moment and only afterwards do you look back and think that maybe it wasn’t you? 

I really don’t know how to explain what I mean but I’m struggling to recognise possible switches and I’d appreciate some help here.

#actuallydid #actuallyosdd #actually a system #did #osdd #osdd-1a #osdd-1b