When Rewatching The Rise Of Skywalker And It Comes To This Part, This Is Whats Running In My Head Haha

When rewatching The Rise of Skywalker and it comes to this part, this is what’s running in my head haha

some alters hold trauma/memories that they didn’t exist to experience / didn’t front during.

some alters have amnesia for moments they were there for.

like that’s really common. you have a dissociative disorder. you aren’t faking if you remember something you didn’t front for and you aren’t faking if you forgot something that you yourself literally did. our brains are trying to protect us. sometimes it does a good job with the amnesia thing and often times it doesn’t. there’s no real way to make amnesia convenient. like a lot of systems only get amnesia from switches, but a lot of us forget the day prior even if no switch occurred.

and although this post is about amnesiac systems, you’re valid if you don’t have amnesia either, or not very much. everyone is different. every system is different.

Recently been watching Ultimate Spider-Man 🕷️ on S2:E23 and Love It so far ahhhh

plural culture is "we're safe now. we're an adult. we live in a safe home with someone who loves us and takes care of us and makes us feel secure. it's 2024, we moved out of our parents' house years ago, and we're safe now. we're safe. we're safe."

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Plural tip for systems that track fronts; be lenient on tracking who may be active. Like, this is your brain, not the tax office. You don't have to perform a bunch of extremely specific checks just to make sure a headmate is truly active; you can just acknowledge their presence in whatever form that may take. Trust that they'll talk to you if they want something, and just let yourselves be. Even if they don't do anything, it still gives them history. Your headmates will appreciate having a place in your system's history, even if they don't remember exactly what they did or said in every single instance.

And even your front history isn't entirely accurate? They'll likely still appreciate that you think about them.

Brooo rebatable. We have 2 folks in our system like that. Still not sure though.

Plural culture is having two 'versions' of an alter, but not knowing if they're actually separate alters or if it's just one alter who drastically changes when having a Very Bad Time.

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