#polymind community

[spectral-pup]

I just wanted to say, that as a DID system it's really relieving to see the term Polymind existing. My personal problem with Endos is moreso the hostile community and the terminology they use rather than their experience with multiplicity or whatever. I don't see any of these problems in Polymind! Like y'all make it clear you aren't systems. I don't think folks understand why exactly most systems feel uncomfortable around Endos. Like Polymind is not invading DIDOSDD spaces and y'all are just kinda vibing over here. Then in contrast, if you look at the history and beginning of the non-disordered plural community, the whole point was to invade DID spaces, harass pwDID and demedicalize the whole disorder. Me and the other alters can't even count how many times we've had to endure harassment from Endos on sysblr even with DNI in the post and bio. Why would you purposefully go and harass some of the most traumatized ppl out there just bc they don't like you appropriating their disorder? I don't get it. And jumping onto the terms, I see people getting mad the terms in Polymind are sometimes synonymous or similar to system terms. This is gonna be hard to explain but like, I think you kinda miss the point when you get too caught up in them, after all healthy brains and unhealthy ones can still have overlapping and/or similar experiences (this doesn't mean you can just invade disorder spaces though) If you know anything about thoughtforms you know humans throughout history and in different cultures have had different words for them but it's all boiled down to essentially the same thing because, surprise, brains just are like this. Like idk, I think it's completely normal to talk to yourself and 'have 'imaginary friends' and inner worlds - that doesn't make you a system. Plus, subpersonalities are medically recognized too. And to end my rant, I'll just say, don't take all the hate too seriously. You're doing great.

Holy fucking shit, this actually made my day better

[the-poison-jungle]

🍓 This user is a puppy!

[sqodle-stuff]

▎More flags!!

「 VARISHATTER 」 Describes a polymind who came to existence due to two or more reasons.

[ID A rectangular flag with 7 horizontal stripes: pale red, pale orange, pale yellow, white, pale cyan, pale blue, pale deep blue and a geeen star in the center END ID]

「 BLANKSHATTER 」 Describes a polymind who doesn’t know why they formed or doesn’t care about it.

[ID A rectangular flag with 5 horizontal stripes: pale green, green tinted grey, white, pale purple, dark purple and a white circle with a smaller black circle inside of it in the center END ID]

[spectral-pup]

Actually, IM the one who made the term thankyouverymuch

SOOO turns out there's apparently a way less harmful alternative to endos: Polymind! They have their own terms and general language, AND they make sure to distance themselves from the system community and make it very clear that they aren't systems, but their own thing!! It's super super cool, 1000% we support this!!!

This is legit soso cool YIPPEEEE

NOTE: Polyminds are NOT endos, or systems at all, they're a separate thing. They may seem similar, and can have some similarities, but they are still very much different!!

-Milkyway

[aspenonpawzzz]

HI

This is my introduction

my mewtual(s) in crime:

@justalexisfine

@imhereandqueersuckas (aka @goingtohellwithyou, that stupid fucker/silly/aff lost his password)

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#c.ai shenanigans for c.ai posts lol

READ AND COMMENT IN MY FANFIC IM BEGGING!!!!

system side blog: @canis-constellation

fictive/fictionkin blog: @phantom-w0lfbane

Writers blog: @yourlocalangstdealer

term hoard/ label coining blog: @aspens-hoard

A-spec mafia: @aspec-warriors

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Theme song: Throne, or Turn off the lights (panic! At the disco)

(Edit: forgot to mention, I have Tricotillamania!)

Plural Fluid!! (Coined term by me)

[cyb3r-sp4ce]

SLEEPOVER PERSONALITIES

A term used to describe a personality/ies (or kin/s) that become prominant for a temporary amount of time, often during dissasociative episodes.

Sleepover Personalities are not to be confused with alters which are a part of plurality. Instead, they are a form of kin mixed with IRL’s.

The tag used for these will be either 💤 or 💭.

Ex.

[Roach] 🥀 | 💭

or

[Roach] 🥀 | 💤

It is important that your personal tag comes BEFORE the sleepover personality tags to avoid confusion!

"How can I tell if I have a sleepover personality?"

- appear more during (heavier) dissociative episodes.

- Sometimes feels like a completely separate person

- sometimes blends together with actual personality. (On rare occasions)

- Has the reason of ‘creation’ to cope with stress and daily life.

- Sometimes will slip away or not be prominent for a while.

- (Usually) always comes back in moments.

These are not the only symptoms. You're also more prone to having a Sleepover Personality if you experience Dehumanization/ Derealization or Psychosis.

COINED BY @skittleoffline @louisverysilly & @cyb3r-sp4ce

[cambriancrew]

There's a big difference between polyminds and endogenic systems.

With polyminds, you're recognizing parts of your own personality - the part of your brain that's anxious all the time. The part that nags you like your mother used to, in her voice. Your inner child. The part of you that comes out when you have to give a speech that can do it without breaking a sweat. The part of you that really loves Legos and dreams of building an entire room in your house out of them.

Endogenics aren't giving names to parts of one personality. Each member in an endogenic system has their own subparts. We're more separated than in a polymind - we don't all aquiesce at the end of the day to one overarching ego. We each have our OWN id, ego, and superego. We each have our own inner child, inner critic, inner Lego fan (LOL) etc.

What's more, we're each people, with all that entails. We have our own thoughts and opinions. Hopes and fears. Motivations. Reasons for living. Senses of self, gender, sexuality, identity. Patterns of thinking and behaving.

We're not simple parts of one person. Not even us median systems - we medians may usually be to some degree parts of a whole, but we're more independent than a singlet's or polymind's parts. There's more division between us median facets, and we're much more closer to whole full separate people than in a polymind.

So please don't say or imply that we endogenics should just call ourselves polyminds and separate ourselves from the system community. We're systems. We're many independent entities in the same body and brain, not mere parts of a single person given a name and treated like separate people to help the central individual better understand their own self.

Each endogenic systemmate has their our own selves to figure out. That's what makes us a system.

[spectral-pup]

“responding to the last bit first because… sometimes carrds ARE the most trustworthy sources” Respectfully, what part of “generally aren’t reliable” did you not understand.

Saying “Im in an x mindset right now” won’t exactly work, seeing that many polyminds named their minds and perceive them as unique individuals; which may make it weird for them to say something similar as that. I also frankly don’t see how active implies at fronting, but that might be my language barrier.

For the Active-stuck, the same applies; not all terms from the Carrd have actually carried over nor have they been used often. But I do appreciate your opinion about the merge/tear terms, it’s something I’ll keep in mind when researching it.

This is a bit off track, but please do not use the “kinnie” term; let alone to describe someone who has a strong connection to a character. The term comes from the KFF community, and if you wish to describe someone who’s connected to a fictional character then the term fictionhearted would be right. But to answer the actual response, I think there’s two main ways this can happen. 1: the mind already existed but picked up the appearance personality and whatnot. 2: the mind was formed due to a reason, such as the need for comfort, and due to the persons current circumstances it is based off something they associate with what could help, such as their comfort character.

Explaining the self is… rather complicated, I really recommend looking at the second link I’ve sent in my last reblog and scrolling down to the section where it explains what it is.

The critique of the term “shattermethod” and very much understandable, I can see where you’re coming from with it. All though note that I do not use the surviveshatter label and it was made by another polymind who formed due to stress and traumatic events as a coping mechanism during their teenage years. I’ll probably reword the definition though like you suggested, and ngl the definition you provided is awesome sauce.

I don’t think any of it was written weird tbh, though also disclaimer that if I sound hostile or passive aggressive at any point then that isn’t my intention. Words are just hard for me.

Polymind is a bit fascinating because it ends up unintentionally showing why system terminology ends up not being exclusive to any one specific group.

Like when you try to describe plural experiences in a way that tries not to use an existing plural definitions, it shows a lot more blatantly that at its core we do all have the same experience of being more than one. Any term you make has a high chance of applying to the other group.

Then when you get into the terminology needed to actually describe those experiences, you find you kind of need most of the shared terminology otherwise you need to recreate the whole damn lexicon.

Like the reason terms get shared is more like "We have DID need a fast and easy way to describe fictional alters. Oh, soulbonders have a lot of terminology for this already that fits what we need, we'll start using fictive and source."

Or "We're a non-disordered system and need a way to describe one headmate taking over. Oh, medically there's switching and front, that's a fast and simple way to describe it."

And like a lot of subcultures online are like that and when you try to fight it you end up with complicated and not very practical terms. Especially when there's terms that have been used for over 30 goddamn years that are simpler and easier to use.

Hell even trying not to use any existing plural terminology, Polymind ended taking a lot of them unintentionally (i.e. part, ageling, little, protector).

It also highlights an issue where unless you do deeper introspection, which is not always practical for... obvious reasons, you probably won't know exactly what you fall under. Expecting people to look in depth trauma history to figure out what terminology they're allowed to use is despicable.

Also that the problem is at its core that people don't think we should exist at all and that the terminology stink ends up being more of a way to make harassment and fakeclaiming seem "justified" and also a method of erasing history and separating systems from resources/making them harder to find but eh

[the-c0nfusi0n]

I’ve created an official community discord server for polyminds!

@spectral-pup

[spectral-pup]

r/systemcringe actually scares me so every time I’m reminded I’ve been posted there I get a mini heart attack

[spectral-pup]

I don’t usually make these kind of posts buttttt

I made a discord server some time ago, and whilst it’s specifically targeted at polyminds anyone can join! :3

It has a separate alterhuman and regression section for those who want it.

If you’re interested in joining, here’s the invite (we also have a verification system, so pesky trolls shooshoo) (also obv /nf <3)

[the-poison-jungle]

Hello there!

Do you want a new Discord server to join?

Do you want to learn more about polyminds?

Do you want a community of polyminds and supporters to chat with?

Join the Polymind Palace, made by me and @the-c0nfusi0n

We have:

- polymind information

- multiple channels to chat in

- age and pet regression channels

- cute emojis (many drawn by us, and all credited)

- Pluralkit and Tupperbox

(Please do join; my friends and I have spent a decent chunk of time working on this server and we’d love for you to join!)

The Polymind Palace does not allow:

- transmedicalists, TERFs, or other transphobic individuals

- proship, darkship, or harmful paraphilias

- non-traumagenic ‘systems’

- anti-recovery behaviour

[spectral-pup]

hey!! Question, can you be a polymind and a system? Like an individual alter being a polymind :]

Honestly? I have no clue. I don’t know how subpersonalities would work with someone who has either DID or OSDD, if at all.

[the-poison-jungle]

Its so weird having a lot of fictlings/fixlings bc yes hi my name is Foxglove but also I'm multiple Mechanisms and an alien who got infected with an Outer God and a transgender cowboy and a woman made of worms and a robot pop star and the son of Hades. What of it

[sqodle-stuff]

▎Two silly flags I’ve made!!

「 DREAMSHATTER 」 Describes a polymind who came to existence due to maladaptive daydreaming.

[ID A rectangular flag with 5 wavy horizontal stripes: light pink, light magenta, white, light purple, light indigo and a white circle in the center END ID]

「 TRAUMASHATTER 」 Describes a polymind who came to existence due to long term trauma.

[ID A rectangular flag with 5 zigzag horizontal stripes: dark maroon, maroon, black, dark crimson, crimson and a black diamond shape in the center END ID]

[sqodle-stuff]

▎Welcome!!

「 BLOG 」

This is my little silly blog to simply post things I’ve made, and perhaps fulfill any requests I may get! The blog is primarily aimed and for polyminds since I’ve noticed there’s not a lot of blogs for them, but I don’t mind making things for other communities as well. If you are planning on using any of my creations or requesting any, then I kindly ask you to read throughout this post. Thank you!

「 ABOUT 」

I’m a silly cat lover who enjoys making little trinkets in their free time, I go by he/him pronouns and I’m a minor. Regarding other labels, I’m otherkin, transmasc and polyminded.

▎INTERACTIONS

「 DNI 」

Basic criteria (homophobic, ableist, racist, sexist, etc.)

Antipolymind, Antialterhuman, Antixenogender, Antineopronouns

Radqueer, TransID, Proship, Darkship

「 BYI 」

I use emoticons a lot and sometimes replace S with Z

I often struggle with words and suck at explaining things

Please do not drag me into syscourse! I don’t want to have anything to do with it

▎REQUESTS

「 FLAGS 」

Flag requests are open!!

Required info is the term, optional info is the theme or color scheme

「 USERBOXES 」

Userbox requests are open!!

Required info is the text, optional info is the icon and background

「 EMOJI 」

Emoji requests are semi-open!! I may deny them if I don’t feel comfy

Required info is a basic description

「 DIVIDERS 」

Divider requests are closed!! I don’t feel comfy doing them for others yet, sorry! :c

▎OTHER STUFF

「 CREDIT 」

Credit, whilst highly appreciated, is not needed.

「 FAQ 」

“What is a polymind?”

“Isn’t it the same as systems?”

「 LINKS 」

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