You're Cute So I'm Downloading You

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

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Did you guys know that pigeons have a natural split brain which means that information only stored in one hemisphere doesn't get communicated to the right hemisphere and usually there fine since yknow they're using both hemispheres for stuff anyway but if you were to cover a pigeon's right eye and make it memorise something, as long as the left eye sees what it's meant to respond to it will, but then if you cover the left eye and give the stimulus you have trained the left eye to the right eye instead, then it won't respond because the memory to that stimulus is in the other hemisphere. You can get one side of a pigeon to know something the other side will never understand. Do you like this information

☆ PRO CATS ☆

☆ a term for closeted pro endo/non traumagenics to use to show they're a safe place for endos! ☆

☆ Based off this post ☆

○ The purple and green are colour picked from the endogenic flag

○ blue and yellow picked from the traumagenic flag

○ the white represents solidarity between the two - appearing there in both flags, while also representing solidarity colour theory-wise.

transgender plurals. you agree, you reblag

Before I got professional help from a DID specialist, I was a very violently anti-endo sysmed. Ironically, pursuing help and taking my medication regularly helped me open up to the idea of non-traumagenic systems.

Before I had access to professional help, I was angry at the world. I was angry at the doctors for not accepting my insurance even though I so desperately needed their help, and I was angry at the endogenics for seemingly getting the "easy" and "fun" parts of my disorder. It was insecurity. I blamed them for how people outside of the community treated me, I blamed them for making us look bad.

I held out hope for the definitive "medical truth" to validate me, I wanted someone to look at me and say:

"I know EXACTLY what is wrong with you, and I can fix you."

But sadly that was just a dream. After cycling through a handful of specialists and settling on my current one, I realized they're learning from me as much as I'm learning from them. Every single specialist had a wildly different definition of what DID looks like, and even is. What it's caused by, and what it's not. Some specialists were open to the idea of endogenic systems existing, some were not.

DID/OSDD medical information is a footnote in a medical textbook. So many of the terms that diagnosed traumagenics use are not decided upon by a medical consensus. Even the specialists are extrapolating heavily based on the very limited information there is about this disorder.

That's when it hit me.

The doctors don't know shit. The community dosent know shit. So damn it all to hell I don't care anymore.

Traumagenic and Endogenic systems are in the same boat. We are all still discovering what it even means to be plural. There's no set definition, even within the sysmed community. So why are we so desperately trying to invalidate each other's experiences just to try to convince others, and ourselves, that our lived experiences are real?

Twitch chat 100% lol

is your system a council or a twitch chat

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I love that there are non-traumagenic systems, like people who decided to introject their favorite characters or tulpamancers who created their own headmates.

There are systems out there who exist purely for the joy of being a system, how cool is that??