#but you have to realize that the genic label someone uses tells you nothing about their system functioning

[cavityinmybrain]

my stance on syscourse is that genic labels are a bit asinine, especially when replacing existing terms for a more confusing option, and I feel like it gives people the impression that origin is more important than it actually is. "Formed from a reason other than trauma" says nothing about functioning or dissociation. We're were born a system but the way our brain decided to be as a toddler shouldn't dictate how trauma later in life might impact our brain

i agree to an extent. labels dont “prove validity”, they exist for personal comfort.

to some people the distinction that trauma endured at a young age changed their brain functioning is important to them, and i believe in letting these people have the choice to identify as such.

on the same side of that coin, i think if someone doesnt want to care about a -genic label that they shouldnt have to. if someone wants to identify as whatever -genic label makes them feel most comfortable, then let them.

the bottom line of it is that -genic labels are not as important community wide as people make them out to be. they can be important to you, the individual, but there is no point in trying to force the community as a whole to disclose such things or to completely shun parts of the community for their label.

i also quite like what you said about labels having no comment on functioning or dissociation levels, because they dont. traumagenic systems in therapy can be well functioning and have low dissociative barriers. endogenic systems who have gone through extensive trauma can have high dissociation and difficulty functioning. the label doesnt dictate that, the systems lived experience does.