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[wellthatschaotic]

1. What kind of system are you? (Describe this in any way you like. No need to use -genic or popular terms if you don't want to)

.....chaotic. very chaotic. i mean. we live up to our system name -

2. How many of you are there?

uh, 22-25 members as of now

3. How long have you known about your plurality?

since, like...late summer of last year i think? july maybe?

4. What kind of spaces/communities do you/did you hang out in? (Both plural-relevant and non-plural-relevant spaces are valid answers, past and present)

we hang out here mostly, uh...yeah this is the only place we're actually open as plural and comfortable with ourselves so (hopefully that'll change though!)

5. Had you heard of DID/OSDD/DDNOS before you became plural/discovered your plurality?

technically yes, functionally no- we'd heard of DID, but never got it explained further than "Alters Disorder(TM)" so like we didn't actually know what it was

6. Do you have a wonderland/innerworld? If so, what do you call it, and what are some things that you and your system members do there?

we do! we usually call it our innerworld (we differentiate between headspace, innerworld, and paracosm) and sometimes we go there while fronting, sometimes we watch people do dumb shit through the cafe window, sometimes people will get food from the token nameless fast food shop and come back to the cafe to slowly eat it while making eye contact with the fronter, yes chris i'm talking about you

7. What do you call your system members?

we call each other headmates, sysmates, sys(tem) members, brain roomates, dumbasses

8. If you're plural but don't use the word "system" to describe you&, what word do you use?

we use either system or collective so

9. What are some of the best things about being plural?

i got friends in my brainy parts! i always have a support system and a home and a family that comes with me wherever i go, and sure sometimes it's hard, but i wouldn't give any of my headmates up for anything. also we've met some really great people in the spaces we've come to<3

10. What are some of the not-so-great things about being plural? (Any answer is valid- nothing is too minor or too major to be an answer to this question.)

first thing that comes to mind is communication issues and memory issues...it sucks tbh. it's a lot of frustration, too- like, a lot of "should"s that don't happen y'know?

11. Do you have a spiritual or psychological view of your plurality?

some of us have a sorta psychological view? like, how our autism relates to it? but overall no, not really

12. Do you ever experience "switching" or "possession" or any sort of change in who controls the body? If so, what do you call it, how easy/difficult is it, and what is it like? Were you always able to do this, or did you have to learn how over time?

we do experience switching! it always depends on who's switching from who and everything, but it's usually pretty unpredictable/uncontrolled, unfortunately. we're trying to learn how to control it at least a little

13. How do you and your system mates relate to each other? (Are you friends, family, romantically involved, caretakers, etc.)

we have every type of relationship! we're like super blurry right now sorry but yeah

14. Have you come out to anybody in real life/in a singlet space about your plurality? How did it go?

we tried but...it didn't go as well as we'd hoped. everyone kind of just does that "oh" then brushes it off as if it'd never happened.

15. What kinds of forms and appearances do your system members take on?

most of us aren't human, so there's a lot of uhhh variety. we make a lot of picrews dlfjskld

16. What are you and your system members interested in?

chris just said "men" and eli said "same" so

17. What is your life like in the meatworld?

it's getting better, actually! we do got the metnal ilness (/ref) but it's not quite as bad as it used to be :)

18. What are your music tastes? Movies? Favorite colors? Animals? List any other favorites as well

uhhhh our music taste is all over the place, most of us like cavetown/IDKHBTFM, isla likes some songs from the oh hellos & the paper kites, so yeah. not really pop music but hey it's good music.

i think we all know yelena's favorite movie, ,,

eli's here and his favorite color is orange, i know edyn's is like an ice-blue, emily's is red, yeah i won't name them all though

all animals are hella cool

19. Does your system have a host/original? If so, what do you call them? Explain what role they play in your system

nope

20. Do any system members have notable relationships outside of the system? Explain them!

nope not really

21. If you haven't been plural for your entire life/haven't known about your plurality until later in life: what was life like before plurality compared to life now?

it was more...lonely, almost. we didn't know about the friends in our head and we didn't have any communities to relate to

22. If you chose to become plural: why? What has changed since then?

n/a

23. Is there anything you'd like to say to the plural community at large?

y'all are hella awesome, no matter your -genic label or functioning or whatever, i hope you have a fabulous day (and like. maybe stop caring about other systems labels too. it really doesn't matter)

24. Is there anything you'd like to say to any singlets reading this post?

PLEASE ask questions! please!! ask!! if there's anything you're confused about or would like to know or are just plain curious, ask!! i promise it's not bothersome or offensive!! it's so much more stressful to get an "oh ok" than to get a question, honestly!

Sysmeds should not get to write the narrative about us on this platform!

Scrolling through the tags, it seems like a great deal of what's said about us on tumblr is either sysmeds trying to make us look bad or all-encompassing plural blogs that just say everyone is valid (which is great! and these blogs should keep doing what they're doing! but it would be nice to have some more frequent endo (and other) representation on here too!)

Either my tumblr algorithm just sucks major balls, or most endos, tulpas, spiritual systems and other non-sysmed-approved systems get scared off of this platform because of how many loud hateful voices there are compared to how few people there are who we can relate to. (like most of the cool-looking accounts i can relate to that i find are dead and so is my blog for the same reason lol).

SO! Let's do a thing. If you are endogenic, parogenic, a tulpamancy system, a spiritual system, a daemien, or any other kind of system that sysmeds try to silence, reblog this post with answers to these questions to tell tumblr what our lived experiences as plurals are REALLY like!

(Feel free to pick and choose which questions you want to answer, or just come up with your own and tag them under #endovoices or substitute endo for whatever kind of system you are! Also, feel free to just reblog with one answer at a time, or to just answer the questions in a standalone post; no need to credit me, I just want more systems sharing their experiences!)

1. What kind of system are you? (Describe this in any way you like. No need to use -genic or popular terms if you don't want to)

2. How many of you are there?

3. How long have you known about your plurality?

4. What kind of spaces/communities do you/did you hang out in? (Both plural-relevant and non-plural-relevant spaces are valid answers, past and present)

5. Had you heard of DID/OSDD/DDNOS before you became plural/discovered your plurality?

6. Do you have a wonderland/innerworld? If so, what do you call it, and what are some things that you and your system members do there?

7. What do you call your system members?

8. If you're plural but don't use the word "system" to describe you&, what word do you use?

9. What are some of the best things about being plural?

10. What are some of the not-so-great things about being plural? (Any answer is valid- nothing is too minor or too major to be an answer to this question.)

11. Do you have a spiritual or psychological view of your plurality?

12. Do you ever experience "switching" or "posession" or any sort of change in who controls the body? If so, what do you call it, how easy/difficult is it, and what is it like? Were you always able to do this, or did you have to learn how over time?

13. How do you and your system mates relate to each other? (Are you friends, family, romantically involved, caretakers, etc.)

14. Have you come out to anybody in real life/in a singlet space about your plurality? How did it go?

15. What kinds of forms and appearances do your system members take on?

16. What are you and your system members interested in?

17. What is your life like in the meatworld?

18. What are your music tastes? Movies? Favorite colors? Animals? List any other favorites as well

19. Does your system have a host/original? If so, what do you call them? Explain what role they play in your system

20. Do any system members have notable relationships outside of the system? Explain them!

21. If you haven't been plural for your entire life/haven't known about your plurality until later in life: what was life like before plurality compared to life now?

22. If you chose to become plural: why? What has changed since then?

23. Is there anything you'd like to say to the plural community at large?

24. Is there anything you'd like to say to any singlets reading this post?

That is all I've got for now, but feel free to add any more you want to share! Please remember to be respectful to all system types if you post, I do not support bashing or invalidating of any system types. I will also reblog with my own answers soon.

(Note: these questions are not in order of priority or importance, I just wrote them down as I came up with them. Feel free to answer out of order and skip or add whatever you want!)

Also this should go without saying but making any rude sysmeddy responses to this will just result in being blocked and totally ignored, so don't even start, there's no point. The block button is right there.

Have fun everyone!