Concept: You Walk Outside One Night And Notice That There Are Two Full Moons. A Few Hours Go By And They

Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

this is what Kaden sends after he walks into a wall, hard enough to make our nose bleed (which isn't that hard, our nose always bleeds)

Idk if I need to be worried or not.

Simply Plural on our end! The feature set works better for our needs, we're in the beta group, and we have too much data stored in it to happily switch to Octocon without a lot of effort — maybe once Octocon is on web, and we can quickly copy/paste from our current SP profiles we might more seriously consider switching (pun not really intended, but I'll take it).

We struggle to understand how to view Plural Kit information at a glance, and by the time we had access to PK, our system had already got used to the keyboard shortcuts for Tupperbox so we don't use it — if we're messaging on Discord, we use Tupperbox or nothing at all.

Besides, we feel safer with the little amount of information shown in a Tupperbox profile (and yes I am aware PK settings can be changed so that certain data doesn't show up: we just use TB, it's a personal preference).

Us personally use both SP and Octo but slowly transitioning to using Octocon only.

A kid will only remember the pain/fear that comes with a hit, not why they got hit. All the parent is teaching is fear.

If the child is old enough to understand why they're being hit, they should never be hit. That is when you teach them the lesson without violence or pain.

Never, ever, hit a child. They don't remember why you hurt them, only that they were hurt, and that shatters trust.

If your parents hit you but it was only once in a while, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but never left a mark, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but never with a closed fist, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but never in the face, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but never with an object, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but said they were sorry after, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but only when you were really acting out, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but it was only spanking, that was abuse.

If your parents hit you but stopped once you got to a certain age, that was abuse.

If your parents never hit you but they shoved you, grabbed you roughly, scratched you or dug their nails into your skin, pulled your hair, or otherwise put hands on you out of anger, that was abuse.

If an adult did any of those things to another adult they were arguing with at the grocery store, it would be considered assault. If an adult did any of those things to their romantic partner it would be considered domestic violence. It's not any more okay when a parent does it to a defenseless child.

I spent most of my life not realizing I was abused because I wasn't being beaten, and I spent even longer thinking the abuse was only emotional.

Are you faking DID?

Last year, I was officially diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, and let me tell you that I was shocked.

After getting misdiagnosed with almost everything out there, I was diagnosed with something that I never thought I could have, ever.

A couple of months later, I started going into the self doubt spiral.

This is my advice for systems doubting themselves:

Doubting yourself is completely normal. DID is meant to be covert and hidden, it’s a defense mechanism after all, almost every system out there doubted their experience at some point, it’s okay.

NOT EVERY SYSTEM IS LIKE SYSTEMS ON TUMBLR. Oh my god, I WISH someone would have told me this last year. You don’t have to have a bed in your room for each alter. You don’t have to have perfect communication with your alters. You don’t have to talk with them on a daily basis and switch 1000 times a day, just no. My communication with my alters is terrible. I sometimes go months without fully switching, days and even weeks without alters talking in my head. My alters mostly work through passive influence and that’s okay. You really don’t have to have a system like the ones you see on here to be valid, please remember that.

Not everything’s “you’re valid uwu”, no. Sometimes you make mistakes, sometimes doctors make mistakes and it’s okay. There are a lot of disorders that might have a similar presentation to DID like BPD, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. You need to be completely honest with yourself about your experiences. You really don’t want to get misdiagnosed and get treated for something that you don’t have “terrible idea, believe me”. If you’re honest with yourself about your experience, then there’s nothing to worry about.

Please don’t obsess over labels. There was this time when I was almost always co conscious with my protector and I kept wondering if I actually have OSDD, and it made me really depressed. It does not matter whether you have DID or OSDD, they’re almost the same thing and the point is, you have gone through trauma that fractured your identity so it really doesn’t matter what you have. Doctors treat symptoms, not labels. It’s okay to be confused for a while ❤️.

Yes, alters can go dormant for a lot of time and that’s completely normal. No, that doesn’t mean that you’re faking.

Sometimes you can switch without knowing or noticing the switch, so don’t obsess over why you aren’t switching too often.

It takes A LOT of time to have a good communication with your alters. It really isn’t as easy as tumblr makes it seems to be.

You don’t have to have obvious and overt symptoms of DID to be valid. I haven’t had so many proofs of my amnesia, only 4 times or something. I have also never experienced dissociative fugue, and that’s okay.

Amnesia for your own amnesia. Sometimes you don’t even notice that you lost time or that you said something that you have no memory of until someone points it out. So again don’t obsess over not switching too often.

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT focus too much on your alters or your disorder. Do not go googling symptoms of DID and reading tons of articles for hours. This is just gonna make your self doubt much worse. It’s okay to learn about your disorder, just don’t do it too much because everyone experiences DID differently and that might increase your doubt.

Always keep in mind that DID is different for everyone. My best friend has DID and our systems are completely different. He switches much more often and he has no idea how many alters does he have, doesn’t know their names or anything about them, however my amnesia is much worse than his. Seeing systems acting differently doesn’t mean that you’re fake.

Since I brought this up, it’s okay not to know anything about your alters. I have around 16 alters and maybe more, I only know and have communicated with 6 of them. Again, it’s not as easy as tumblr makes it seems.

It’s okay not to feel like you’re a multiple. It’s okay not to refer to yourself as “we”. I personally never refer to myself as we unless I’m talking specifically about me and my alters.

It’s okay to have more overt symptoms after getting your diagnosis, and it’s also okay for your symptoms to be less after diagnosis. It’s really common that alters start being much more visible after diagnosis, that doesn’t mean you’re faking. Despite being less common but it’s okay to have less symptoms after getting diagnosed. Your alters might be just scared, I have experienced this and it made me feel like I was faking it all, but it doesn’t. Sometimes, your alters are as scared as you, maybe even more.

I wish someone would have told me this last year, so here I am, telling you why you shouldn’t worry, this too shall pass, trust me.

Also, feel free to add your own advice.

If you need anything, don’t hesitate to message us, we’d be more than glad to help!

Stay safe ❤️

Undiagnosed systemhood is

Thinking you just have no sense of self, and that's why your "personality" keeps changing.

Feeling like you're watching someone else operate your body, with no idea how or why.

Having strange deja vu moments where you feel like you've done something, but you don't remember any specific details.

Feeling like years of your life weren't actually lived by you, but by someone else that still exists somewhere in you.

Saying things that you can't control or don't agree with and not being able to do anything to fix it.

Feeling like you don't belong in your body, like you aren't actually you.