Functional Multiplicity - Tumblr Posts
I am so so sorry, I tried reading your dni and about the system page but it's a bit much for me.
However I did read your studying for psychology, how many years of studying do you have? Does did effect your studies ?
So, I typed up a super long answer to this, and it's gone, and I haven't had the spoons to write it up again… but here we go.
That's totally good honey, it's there partly for our reference and for anyone curious. Literally no pressure to read it! We haven't got to university yet; on the condition we get accepted into the bachelors of psychology program, we'll be starting our psych degree in Feb 2025. Our system has had a burning interest in psychology, well, since we were a kid. We've always been fascinated by the human brain and why people act the way they do. Plus, when our mental health started (heavily) declining when the body was 11-13, we started reading and finding things that we're fascinated by. It'll be three years for our bachelor's of psych plus 3-5 years post graduate (masters, phD or post grad certi.) to become a clinical psychologist.
And yes. DID impacts our education.
[The above message was written by Amber (🔥), I'll take over from here - Kyle 💜]
As Amber said, it impacts our education, and heavily. Since discovering we are a system, we have realised there was a lot of knowledge that went unheard, and passed through the system without any recollection. It finally explained how I (we) would get wonderful marks in subjects I (we) don't remember participating in, particularly statistics/maths. Kaden, my brother, would front, complete the class and get amazing scores, while the rest of us were left scrambling in the dark wondering what happened. I was aware of our system far before our host was for about six years before I had the terminology to explain what I was experiencing. I remember how our host would get confused when they received high marks in statistics while remembering absolutely nothing.
We're at a Christian school, which, I have a love/hate relationship with. As some of you may have seen by my past posts, I'm Christian and proudly queer, however our school doesn't see that that's possible (it seems in their eyes you're either queer, or Christian and never both bc 'queerness is unbiblical'). And it's worsened by our system having an array of religions.
From a straight learning perspective, our notes vary drastically and often information goes missed or unnoticed if we switch out.
We're hoping that once we're healthier and achieving functional multiplicity, that we can use our system as a superpower, especially working with clients. Where our littles can help younger clients feel heard and safe, and where we can match our clients with an alter that matches and/or compliments their communication style, and way of relating to the world. And if we ever end up working with a system (or for that matter, PTSD, depression, anxiety, OCD, autism or ADHD) in therapy, we'll have first-hand experience with it.
*Talking with therapist*
"...Who's fronting? shit's all foggy and I keep feeling interruptions"
*noise*
"..guys.."
*more hubbub*
"fine, write your names down"
*gets six names*
"awesome"
[perks of being a protector]
Asking the system whether they want to use parts language (each alter is part of a greater whole), or person language (we're multiple people sharing a body) is always so funny because this happens
fronter, talking to someone else: yeah, we're all part of a greater whole, don't worry, we're all the same person :)
alter: [screams as if the devil just bit their earlobe] how dare you!!?!??!?! I'm a person!! aND I'M NOTHING LIKE YOU
vs
fronter, talking to someone else: so it's like- we're all individuals- sharing a body, and we all have names and feelings and-
alter A: . . . what are feelings?
alter B: ??? what is a name . . . . ?????
alter C: wdym I'm sharing a body with these imbeciles, ew
alter D: ..aren't we parts of a greater whole, cus the brain split to deal with traum-
alter C: shut up, Jessica.