#literally childhood trauma

[in-a-faith-forgottenn-land]

banana fish but make it lion king 2

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[userarmand]

The ten hours I spent with that boy were more exciting, more fascinating, than decades with you!

[childhoodcarnage]

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike learns more about Michael’s childhood..

[bunnieswithknives]

Mephone takes the Operational out of Operational System.

[deimosatellite]

stavrovensky childhood meeting

[sapphic-boyfriend]

not enough ppl talk abt vi and the visceral experience of having ur childhood and teenhood completely snatched away from you, and now you’re an adult who just has to live & deal w that fact.

[pansyfemme]

the thing is im polyam and also not super into marriage or feel that long term partnerships are better than short term or casual ones but i do probably have bpd which does complicate things in that respect

[dennisboobs]

i'm seeing videos on tiktok about the crossover (which yeah my first mistake is being on tiktok) but it's making me feel crazy when people keep saying "dennis should not be allowed in a school" specifically implying that he's a threat to children any more than the rest of the gang who have a worse track record

Bad Dad but a dad nonetheless

[tinseltownie]

Lando and Penelope being best friends sounds like something out of fan fiction but it's 100% true. They really grew up together 🥲

Like something something championship rivalry, blah blah norstappen divorce but Max really spent the season defending Lando and their friendship above all else, to the point his "bonus" child clings to Lando because she feels so safe around him, pls don't tell me Max hasn't taken alll the wounds of his childhood and turned into something golden for this little girl.

[lunarharp]

post that reads like a mood swing

[every-ogata]

[childhoodcarnage]

[crownedpuppet]

God sysmeds are often so sure that they're special for their system being formed from trauma and how hard it is after going through trauma, and like

Trauma IS hard. But not everyone who has experienced trauma also has DID/OSDD. If trauma was the unifying factor here, why would so many people who have PTSD or have otherwise experienced abuse or traumatic events be ableist and shitty about systems? Who do you think is more likely to support you as a system: a singlet who has experienced trauma and knows NOTHING about DID/OSDD other than what they've seen from books/movies/etc (which is most people), or another system who happens to have been formed through means other than trauma?

Also not everyone who has DID/OSDD even wants to call themselves a system, so yes, systemhood IS an identity -- because even people with DID/OSDD can choose what terminology/framework they identify with.

"Plural" is an inclusive descriptor. Even only looking at people diagnosed with DID/OSDD-- it would be incorrect to call them systems if they don't consider themselves systems, while "plural" is a better way to include people with DID/OSDD who don't identify as systems but understand they are multiple people/facets/alters/parts/whatever.

That last part, the plurality, is the only thing that everyone with DID/OSDD have that makes it possible to understand each other. Traumatized people without DID/OSDD are not going to understand. But plural people without DID/OSDD might.

As a last note, incorrectly defining endogenic as a "system without trauma" means you don't understand trauma. There are many types of trauma people often experience without realizing. Medical trauma, religious trauma, trauma from the fucking COVID-19 pandemic-- the list goes on. I'm not sure anyone can really go through life without experiencing trauma at one point or another. Which would mean "systems without trauma" probably don't exist, sure-- but that's not the definition of endogenic. Endogenic systems just become systems first and may experience trauma later.

So nope, the trauma isn't what makes you special. Guess again.

(Signed, a system diagnosed with DID.)

[howlsofbloodhounds]

The way people are complaining that jinx isn’t the same character this season because she’s “sane” (aka not actively having an episode of psychosis, even though she literally did experience a hallucination when seeing vi with the enforcers), is strange.

also I find it strange that people talk about jinx and powder as if they’re separate people. they aren’t. jinx is powder, grown up and traumatized and mentally ill. like i completely understand that jinx likely struggles to realize this, because extremes are often the stable of bpd and she shows all the signs, and well—a personality disorder is a personality disorder.

but no jinx did not kill powder and taint her memory. powder is not gone. jinx can not exist without powder, and vice versa—because they are eachother. that’s what vi needs to realize and accept as well—her sister is not gone.

her sister just grew up and changed and is traumatized and mentally ill. it’s impossible for jinx to kill powder, or for powder to “come back,” the exact same she was. vi could never have powder back because the powder vi remembers was a scared, helpless little girl who depended on her for almost everything. powder was never going to remain that way forever—not if she wanted to survive.

powder has grown up and changed without her. that was always going to happen, it happens to everyone. if nothing happened as it did, their family was still alive, vi was never thrown in jail and powder never taken in by silco; powder still would’ve changed, somehow, someway. She’d likely still just be going by powder rather than jinx.