#Osdd system

[arrayoflightarchives]

@funnier-as-a-system

I’m actually remarkably chill considering I’m consistently under the spells of many wizards

[forget-meabh-not]

The Lotus System/ Friendly System flag.

We made this flag for a stance + tag we coined(?) #friendly dissociative.

we and our friend @murderscenemotes were talking abt how sick we are of seeing syscourse in the DID and OSDD tags , it’s like we can’t escape it , so we decided to make our own tag that is for disordered systems without all of the stupid syscourse and instead focuses on community and support.

the flags stripes meaning are:

Yellow stripe: Community and solidarity with other disorders

Light orange: OSDD systems

Dark red orange: UDD systems

Purple ish pink: P-DID systems

Dark purple: DID systems

-Canine(He/She/Hxm)

[thekilljoys]

I know I posted a video on tiktok about this but more people need to hear this

Don't date someone unless you can't handle all their disorders, let me repeat Do not date someone unless you can handle ALL their disorders

Don't date someone with a personality disorder unless you can handle the episodes

Do not date someone with a trauma disorder can you can handle the flashblacks

Do not date someone with mood disorder unless you can handle the mood swings

Do not date someone with a disorder you cannot handle

Do not date someone if you're going to villainize them or their disorders

Do not date someone if you're going to romanticize their disorders

It shows you have little to no understanding of their disorders or who they are as a person, it shows you can't truly love them because you refuse to learn the basics of the disorder, and it shows just how much of a shitty person you are

[sysblr-system-surveys]

After 339 total participants I've put together the initial google charts!

Let's take a look at how the wider system community responded:

DEMOGRAPHICS

Age:

13-17 : 34.8% 18-29 : 61.7% 30+ : 3.5%

Where are you from?:

North America: 75% South America: 1.2% Africa: .6% Europe: 16% Asia: 1.8% Oceania: 5.4%

Which best describes you?:

Endogenic: 7.1% Mixed Origin: 24.5% Self Dx/Suspecting DID/OSDD: 28.9% Dx DID/OSDD: 33.6% Current/Former Malingering or "Faking" : 5.9%

SYSTEM DISCOVERY AND EXPERIENCE

Which did you learn about/engage with first?:

Endo and/or Plural communities: 26% CDD and/or trauma based communities: 60.2% Other/write ins: 13.8%

How did you discover your system?:

Had alters as long as I can remember: 15.9% Searching for explanations of my symptoms/experiences: 53.7% Symptoms/experiences began after discovering system communities/reading research: 26.5% Created my system by choice: 3.8%

How large is your system?:

Unsure, hard to identify: 20.6% 2-10: 22.7% 11-20: 13.3% 21-29: 6.8% 30+: 15.6% 100+: 14.5% Unsure, too many to count: 6.5%

How does your system present?:

Covert: 83.5% Overt: 16.5%

How do you view your system?:

Parts to a whole: 45.4% Collection of individuals: 54.6%

How do you feel about being a system?:

Positive, coping mechanism/provides company/ect: 41% Neutral, dont give much thought to it: 34.5% Negative, hinders functioning/isolating/ect: 24.5%

SYSCOURSE STANCE

Do you think Syscourse has become too toxic?:

Yes: 90.6% No: 9.4%

Do you feel you belong/welcomed to online communities?:

Yes: 56.7% No: 43.3%

Opinion/stance on endogenic systems:

Pro: 51% Neutral: 20.1% Anti: 28.9%

Opinion/stance on traumagenic systems:

Pro: 86.4% Neutral: 13% Anti: .6%

Do you believe someone can choose to create a system or alters at any point in life?

Yes: 53.7% No: 46.3%

WOW. over 300 participants is insane! thank you so much to each and everyone of you who participated and for sticking through the multiple delays.

the goal of this project has always been to peek inside of the larger system community and what thoughts/feelings/impressions are across communities.

I hope with Survey 2 we can reach even more people and expand on questions to keep learning about the broader system community without falling into syscorse echo chambers at times.

As always, Askbox is open for suggestions on Survey 2. Asks wont be posted, i just collect them there for an easy place to refer to.

you guys rock!

[the-blorb-system]

Usually the third guy follows the apology with mischievous gigfling

It's me I'm the third guy you're welcome

-Leo [He/Him]

guess we're not 3 guys

[gaynpc03]

new DID resources!

Dear DID/OSDDers on Tumblr,

There is a new workbook due out in March that you may find helpful. The author is a psychologist based in Australia; she specialises in DID, OSDD, trauma recovery amongst other things. Here is a link to her practice.

The author is a member of the ISSTD (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation) as of 2020

She holds a Masters of Professional Psychology, Graduated in 2017

She is also the author of the book "my mommy has multiple parts" - the children's book about parents with DID

Here is a link to her psychology today page

I am most excited for this to release! I hope someone else may find it helpful <3

[plurapony]

there's an epidemic of attention seekers and it's been villanized to the point someone can very blatantly cry for help and it'll be pushed to the side that "they're just an annoying attention seeker, don't fuel their delusion"

but this behavior typically is from traumatized people who have been victims!!! let me break down how attention seeking behavior ties back to being abused for you to understand.

first your abuser makes you nothing, your self worth is zero and you are completely worthless. then bit by bit, your self worth is drip fed back to you ONLY this time it comes with a clause. your self worth now belongs to that abuser, so the moment you leave and escape? you become nothing all over again. it's like an addiction really, feeling worth something after feeling worthless for so long. and the cycle just repeats over and over, it's easy for abusers to take those who already view themselves as nothing under their wing - and for the victim? the pattern continues again and again until it is etched into their brain that the only way to make them feel worth something is to be abused.

so what happens when someone gets out of abuse and doesn't find another abuser? well that's where the attention seeking behavior comes in. they are free but they feel lost, and attention is the only thing that comes close to the feeling they had back when they were being abused.

so can we stop viewing attention seeking behavior as an inherently negative trait and start realizing it may be signs of something more going on beyond the surface? people don't do things for no reason and especially regarding syscourse issues, some people REALLY need to have more compassion.

[beingcultureis]

Feathered angel culture is: eughhh… so cold, where is my fluffy wings?

-🐁

[safetyhazardsystem]

- Ember ( ☄️ ) he/she

Having insys partners is great but also when you're cofronting, being physically affectionate can just look like this.

I'm holding your hand but it's also my hand and yeah that's poetic but it's so fucking funny.

[starstruck-sillies]

Btw, I can't believe I have to say this;

ENDOGENIC SUBSYSTEMS AREN'T A THING

Endos, real or not, DO NOT FUNCTION LIKE CDD SYSTEMS. STOP TREATING THEM LIKE THEY DO.

-Toby

[illusions11]

[starfall-sys]

[system-blinkies]

In that case, (thank thee for educating us on these 'blinkies')

Could we have something with below please:

(We are sorry if this is hard to do.)

'Angels' Gate is open to all.'

White or muted colours please.

Generally, angelic themes, we suppose.

× e + o ×

[oursystemblog]

well i guess that's fine

[plurapony]

meanwhile in syscourse today:

erm guys im in a system space and... everyone is a system. aren't you supposed to be rare? youre system in system space but system 1% ???? how system? system space? SYSTEM RARE! how many here????