Yep We Do

yep we do

not everyone's labelled with a role, but most members of the core team know what their role is, even if it doesn't have a 'proper' term. it helps to break up why we exist, and makes it just that smidge easier to understand purpose when everything else feels a bit hopeless. without having to get too philosophical; it makes life easier for a lot of the system

question 9: do yall use roles in your system? what do you think of roles, in general?

lmao this is true as hell

Autistic system culture is "ohhh my parents not knowing how to deal with my meltdowns *really* fucked me up"

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we've mostly chosen not to use headmate because of it's endo origins but we'll use 'sysmate'

alter is the main one, depends who we're talking to

question 11: Do you have any terms rather than headmate or alter that you prefer to use?

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an unmatched feeling actually

Yep! We have everything from platonic best friends who go back to childhood, dedicated romantic relationships in all fonts and shapes (wlw, mlm, straight, idgaf-ur-cute, enby x whatever, polyam etc), parent/child, older siblings with younger siblings, mentor type relationships, siblings, twins, adopted siblings, parents with adoptive kids, kids who adopted themselves (this happens a lot, "ur my mum now" say the syskids to anyone who cares), pets, and a lot more

we have lots of in sys families, by blood or just because they felt like adopting a stray - a lot of it boils down to "I'd defend you with my life" whether or not that's stated.

one of these days im going to map our system relationships and see how cobweb-y it gets loll

17: Do you have any in-system relationships and if so what are the dynamics between them?

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