#PLURAL

[is-this-plural]

yeeeeeeeeep.

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

[sophieinwonderland]

Important note for minors about coming out as plural: do not trust conservative parents or caregivers

With the Trump administration returning has come a renewed surge of bigotry around the country. Right wing media is being used to indoctrinate people into a fascist hate cult.

If you are a plural minor considering coming out to parents, think long and hard about if it's safe to do so. As a minor, much of your life is going to be controlled by your parents. If they want to, they can limit social media access and take away your ability to communicate with other systems. They can force you into therapy against your will with the express goal of getting rid of your headmates. Parents even have the right to physically assault you as punishment.

While plurality is not part of the mainstream conversation yet, there is a chance that it will be soon with so much ongoing research into it. Some of which is likely to make mainstream news at some point. And there is a real possibility that when this happens, conservatives who don't know plurality exists today will flip on a dime the moment their media sources decide it's a problem.

Even if plurality doesn't become visible to mainstream conservatives, their minds have been poisoned against enough related phenomena that it can still be extremely dangerous to come out to them. Most conservative Christians believe in a real spiritual warfare, seeing conservative Christians like themselves as warriors against the forces of the devil. If you experience any sort of spiritual plurality, it is very likely that they will see you as being demonically possessed.

And with the rampant transphobia, even if you don't identify as transgender, systems with headmates with different genders from the body's AGAB are likely going to face the same discrimination from them.

You obviously know your parents better than I do. So if you're confident that you'll be safe coming out to them, then go for it!

But otherwise, I think it may be wise to wait a few years until they no longer have power over you. When the worst they could do is cut you out of their lives.

Additionally, it may be wise to take steps to prevent your parents from finding out.

If you think that your parents may look at your social media accounts, have accounts that are only for plural stuff that you only log into in private browsing modes, and don't share these accounts or their passwords with anyone.

Additionally, don't share too much personal information on the internet. Don't give people your real name or your address or anything they can use to find you and out you to your parents.

It has happened in the past that pluralphobic groups have tracked down and contacted the parents of minor systems, whose parents subsequently took away the system's social media access.

Above everything else, be safe!

I believe that the future is plural, but that future is still a ways off. And I want to make sure that young systems growing up today can live to reach that future.

[darkmagenugget]

Full Fennec fox form!!! I use it from time to time. ^-^

[adam-the-fictive]

I swear, some people are allergic to positivity. "Oh no the traumagenic tag is full of pro-endos, I'm so MAD about this!" Dude. Take a chill pill, first off. Second off, plenty of traumagenic systems are pro-endo because they find more of a COMMUNITY in those spaces. There is no contradiction.

Ask me, would we as a traumagenic system rather be in a space full of people who debate and rage against the existence of non-traumagenics and build up an atmosphere of fear of being fakeclaimed? Or in a community with an emphasis on positivity that accepts people for who they claim to be?

Maybe we traumagenics don't know everything about plurality? What happened to live and let live? Maybe we'd rather just talk about our experiences as they are, regardless of whether or not we came from trauma, and bond over the thing we DO have in common--- plurality?

Sorry but the second option sounds more like a community to me. And my system and I will never apologize for choosing it.

If you make your bed in fear, you have to lie in it. If you make your bed in kindness, you'll have a damn good night's sleep.

[doodle-system]

Days where it's just Angel fronting and no sign of anyone else are so lonely. 😔

Sometimes being a system is "yes this one person has been fronting alone for the past five hours"

And sometimes it's "there's like 13 people near front and god knows which one of them is actually in control of the body right now"

[redflagzsys]

my DID experiences (that aren't TMI) are

waking up in an outfit totally different from your preferred style

thinking it's wednesday one day of the week when you're actually 3 days off, not sure if you were gone for three days or more without checking the numbered calendar

people you've never spoken to or even know their name waving to you in hallways

people claiming you go by names you've never gone by a day in your life

forgetting key details about loved ones (favorite shows, their birthdays, eye color)

notes you don't remember making and finding out it's something another part wrote

a part getting into arguments online and leaving you to deal with it not knowing anything about the topic

random flashbacks of my childhood that last for a few minutes, then suddenly go away

parts hiding objects or misplacing them (like the poster we got from a concert that one time...)

finding recordings of yourself that you have no memory of

as you can see, a lot of fucking amnesia

parts voices randomly commenting on things and ruining your concentration

not being able to pick an outfit since different parts in co-front want to wear different things

not being able to remember quarantine due to being stuck at home

most of these happened before we even knew of our system, and we just thought it was normal because it's what we've always known lol

[syscest]

Newly-plural anon here: my headmates have forcibly princess-ified me. Help.

system roles are getting weirder every day. let us know when the Dragon and the Knight show up or whatever

[ketersilly]

Me: "I'm not plural"

Me, five minutes later: "When the fuck did I navigate to THIS site???"

[skullrift]

“who’s the evil alter” about to be me if you don’t shut yo ass up

- 🥀

[graveyard-system-shenanigans]

Plural POV

You're at the mall with your friends, and one of the system's littles got just a tad too excited and is starting to act hyperactive and take control of the body, so you excuse yourself to the bathroom so that you can call forth towards the fronting room whoever is reparenting the kiddo at the moment and ask them to Pretty Please Manage Their Ward. You proceed to have an existential crisis as the adult headmate sings to their kid a lullaby that you also remember from your childhood, and you face the dual experience of that kid falling asleep to the sound of it straight away while you're getting stressed over how along ago your childhood was and how old you are.

Just another Tuesday as a plural!

[doodle-system]

Yes! Like, my mental health has improved greatly since I accepted both my maladaptive daydreaming and alters. Living in my fantasy of what the world isn't makes the times I am forced to actually face true reality so much easier, because I know that I can just return "home" afterwards. And sharing that fantasy "home" with others who just "get it" is one of the best feelings in the world.

Also, my alters are all aware that they're technically a part of me as a whole, but everyone pretty much ignores that, and pretends it isn't a thing because honestly, we're happier being our own separate people. And if one of us wants to relearn how to play piano and another wants to relearn Italian due to the body not knowing those things, then why the heck not?!

Treating your headmates like separate people isn't worsening your condition by default by the way. Treating them with respect isn't making you dissociate more. Final fusion is a fine thing to try and achieve, but people need to understand that functional multiplicity is a thing you can work to achieve in therapy too. Please stop pushing the idea that you need to treat your headmates like a disorder or curse in order to heal. You can be happily multiple if you want that.

[multi-dudes]

the most me I've ever been is several

[stxrsys]

If you are a system who's bodily POC/mixed race, we would love to be mutuals with y'all!! Most systems we have ever met are bodily white and while we love them very much it's kind of isolating coming from a model minority culture where mental health is even more stigmatized than typically :(

So any system who is bodily POC please interact!! /nf And if you are not POC we'd still love to be friends with you :))

[oursystemblog]

well i guess that's fine

[officials-of-hell]

If you have the sims, there’s a whole world of mods you can get to make yourself

Good alternatives to generative AI that allow you to represent yourself without supporting corporate art theft

Picrew and other dress up games.

F2u bases.

Heroforge tabletop minifigure maker

Ponytowns avatar customization feature

Certain roblox games.

Emuferal, an emulator of the shutdown game fer.al

Or draw, your art doesn't have to be good to represent you!

Commission someone (if you have the money)

Please feel free to add to this list.