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clockwork constellation posts - what it says, also any variation thereof

clockwork constellation reblogs - what it says, also any variation thereof

shoutout to all introjects with traumatic backgrounds

you escaped the narrative! it’s yours now to do with as you wish- you can have whatever happiness source denied you

things im trying to accept as an introject

the body and i will never look the same.. im never going to look in a mirror and see myself..yet i can get used to what i do have

being in a disabled body isnt bad; uncomfortable, terrifying and unpleasant..but it..isn't bad.. though i do miss the ability to run freely

i need to speak up for myself more

Ranora (source), is nothing more than a story in this universe. everything i know, knew, is nothing more than a story. every family member, partner, creature and experience i had is a story...and one that only three others know.

my memories hold meaning, and in some cases can shed light on things that the others don't remember anymore

being queer is okay, and a normal part of human experience

that it's okay to grieve what i lost

that im here for a reason, the brain chose me. they need me. and ive found out why.

creating a new home is possible, and beautiful

Introjects... you're needed. you're loved. your systems need you. it's going to be okay.

you'll create a new home for yourself. i promise. you're not alone, your system can support you, as can your friends and sometimes, family. if any introjects need someone to talk to, our inbox is always open and i will try to reply.

sending love and hugs, to anyone who needs them

~lillia 🪻

It seems to vary for us. They seem to fall into a few categories.

Introject who have no relation to their source beyond their name and personality: these interjects seem to be our older interjects (ie. split when we were younger) and fit our perception of the character at the time, and have most likely shifted in role, and often name too or have shifted to better match what the body needs.

I'm (🔥) a good example, as somewhere along the line I merged with some of our past primary protectors, including Susan, who had a personality that was a mix of Susan and Lucy Pevensie (Narnia).

These interjects have little, to no, memory of their source.

Introjects who share some traits with their source.

These vary drastically, and can have full memory of their source, or none at all. Most of them are older media sources, and usually split when we were under the age of 12.

We have one introject who split fairly recently (in the last few years): she's based on Julia from 1984. She hasn't spoken to any of the other system members very much so I can't answer this question for her…

However, I suspect her personality will continue to evolve, as will her perceptions, as we study 1984 in more depth... I'm hoping I can bother her about analysing interactions.. though I doubt she'll want to talk about most of them.

Lillia (🪻): she's special, as her source is a novel written by one of our closest friends. Her memories tend to lean towards the canon she was written with. Lillia's author has since changed the entire story top to bottom (or so we have heard), but she has no basis of reference for this new rewrite, her memories reflect as such. Her memories are almost always representative of something we went through at some point or another. She finds that a lot of her memories are hard to come by, or foggy.

Link (🗡️): Link gets his own category. (it's 🐚 from here)

We believed that we split Link (Legend of Zelda) just past the bodies 17th birthday following a rather messy break-up with our now ex.

He later informed me that he's been around since we were six, and were playing Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword and Link's Crossbow Training. In retrospective bothering of family, we found out that there were times we insisted we were an elf boy and would always make cardboard crossbows, swords and 'pretend' to save Hyrule.

Link's memories have varied drastically with the iterations of LoZ we've played. He's developed memories since we played botw, and totk, and as much as we play top-down Zelda games (Link's Awakening, Echoes of Wisdom when it comes out, OG Zelda games) he has no idea what is going on and no memory of them.

His memories have evolved as other system members have read fanfic, made head canons etc set in Hyrule.

When we were first playing totk (released May 2023), he almost knew the entire storyline, and a lot of the new monsters weren't a surprise to him... and we had no idea what he was on about until we got to the points he was describing…and then it was an immediate case of "how did you know that?!"

In answer to your question, OP... it varies from introject to introject, but for our most active/fronting introjects: they evolve as the system consumes the media, but it takes a lot for us to split an introject, and usually by the point we split an introject, we're already very close to completing, if not completed, their source. Most of the time, if we are to split an introject, it'll be on a reread/replay/rewatch following another severely traumatic event that aligns with their personality (or trauma)

What are people's experiences with introjects from a source they haven't finished (ex. A show or a game)? Do they grow as you complete the source? Does it feel as though parts of their memories are locked away until you complete the source? Genuinely curious as Astarion is my first introject and he hasn't spoken of his memories much, either because he just doesn't have many or wanting privacy in unsure.

-💚

us: "we only have two introjects! yay!" the rest hiding in headspace: brother, what are you talking about

certain fictives make me suspicious. i wont believe you're a system if you have a dream fictive, or anyone from hazbin hotel, or if you have the entire cast of one of those super popular shows. sorry. that's just how we work.

Interesting take and I do see where you're coming from, however this is essentially fake claiming an entire group of people, including those who have diagnosed systems who happen to have introjects from popular media.

There are a lot of reasons people split introjects, including stress and overwhelming experiences, and people with DID can split even after the brain has finished the majority of it's development, especially if they remain in an unsafe environment or they are stressed and already have a system caused by disassociation. Introjects are just another way that the brain choses to process trauma, albeit..a complicated one.

Some "introjects" are simply alters who feel they connect with a character, rather than someone they believe they are.

However, holding that in mind; systems online often chose to share alters, and experiences that they feel others may connect with, who wish to speak or who want to speak/post. We have many alters who don't post for various reasons, and experiences we don't talk about because they're too personal/too triggering etc, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist or didn't happen.

If someone states they have a lot of introjects from a recent popular show/film/fandom/book, and don't show other symptoms then I may become suspicious but flat out stating they can't be a system if they happen to have x character in their head is just... anyway-

Anon, unless you happen to be a psychologist, you don't have the right to entirely say that someone cannot have DID.

I hope I worded this okay. :)

I'm in drama and got no work to do so welcome to me just listing sources we have alters of Fandoms: >Dsmp

>Creepypasta(we have so many ben drowneds send help)

>Slenderverse >WTTT

>danganronpa

>FNaF

>Death Note

>Full house

>Hamlet

>Harry Potter

>ocs

>Percy Jackson

>Warrior cats

>an ao3 story I read (not naming for reasons ;-;)

>Skyrim >Sanders sides

>Undertale >hamilton

>Mlp

>Hazbin Hotel

I one time saw systemcringe fakeclaim people for having object introjects so hi, I'm Georgia I'm an introject of the state of Georgia(not the WTTT alter, not our oc the literal piece of land)

being sourced from a fanfiction is so weird

-Raven

I dunno how safe this is but yk if you want my socials here

TikTok: th3rab1dd0gsys

Disc: doll13z

Snap: cr1ngeco

Instagram: anomaliesofvhs

I want friends

I agree with all of this, and want to add my own take in. If there's any reason you should be fakeclaiming people, which there isn't, then it should be because they Don't have fictives from popular media. The more popular the media is, the more people watch it. The more people watch it, the more systems see it, and therefore more systems will split fictives of it. Claiming somebody's faking because they adhere to basic statistics is obtuse and obscene. I absolutely expect to see plenty of dream fictives, hazbin hotel fictives, office, or whatever other popular media. It's literally common sense, please dearest readers, use some critical thinking before you start shouting and pointing at people because they watched popular media while going through struggles. -Em, forever disappointed in the internet

certain fictives make me suspicious. i wont believe you're a system if you have a dream fictive, or anyone from hazbin hotel, or if you have the entire cast of one of those super popular shows. sorry. that's just how we work.

Interesting take and I do see where you're coming from, however this is essentially fake claiming an entire group of people, including those who have diagnosed systems who happen to have introjects from popular media.

There are a lot of reasons people split introjects, including stress and overwhelming experiences, and people with DID can split even after the brain has finished the majority of it's development, especially if they remain in an unsafe environment or they are stressed and already have a system caused by disassociation. Introjects are just another way that the brain choses to process trauma, albeit..a complicated one.

Some "introjects" are simply alters who feel they connect with a character, rather than someone they believe they are.

However, holding that in mind; systems online often chose to share alters, and experiences that they feel others may connect with, who wish to speak or who want to speak/post. We have many alters who don't post for various reasons, and experiences we don't talk about because they're too personal/too triggering etc, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist or didn't happen.

If someone states they have a lot of introjects from a recent popular show/film/fandom/book, and don't show other symptoms then I may become suspicious but flat out stating they can't be a system if they happen to have x character in their head is just... anyway-

Anon, unless you happen to be a psychologist, you don't have the right to entirely say that someone cannot have DID.

I hope I worded this okay. :)

Actually yes, at least for what I been reading about introjecting in general psychological context and introjecting in OSDDID context I can say it is because of that

Some definitions easy to find in google about introjection in non-OSDDID context are:

The unconscious adoption of the thoughts or personality traits of others. It occurs as a normal part of development, such as a child taking on parental values and attitudes.

Introjection, one of many defense mechanisms posited by Sigmund Freud, occurs when a person internalizes the ideas or voices of other people. Some mental health professionals believe that introjection is a protective strategy that children employ in order to cope with unavailable parents or guardians: By unconsciously absorbing the characteristics of parents, children reassure themselves that some aspect of the parent is present even if the parent is physically absent. Depending on the types of attitudes that are picked up, introjection may lead to positive or negative effects.

So yeah, introjecting is a coping mechanism of the brain, when you get fixated in some show or media you tend to mimic and introject parts of the media in yourself as a way to understand, act and cope with the external world

If this mimicking and helping is seen as something that is needed for the brain is normal for the brain to make introjects

Basically I just expanded a little bit about how this works, I lazy to do a better explanation lol

I wonder if people who are autistic and have OSDDID are more likely to have introjects because it's so common for singlet autistic people to mimic/mirror others behaviors

We use both of the terms

But being more theoretically, introjects in CDD context are alters who formed based on something that already existed, and because the oc already existed when the alter formed... Well yeah, it's an introject

This can also applied to any other creation the system mades and then gets in the system as an alter, they're introjections

If I'm not wrong autoject is a term for all the introjects whose source is something created by someone else of the system, some autojects don't consider completely like introjects because the brain made them but not from scratch, so you can just use that if you want

Labels are that, labels, made for your own comfort, so if they don't like introject/autoject/brainmade let them use whatever they want, but theoretically speaking they're introjects, or if they wanna be a little bit more introject separated but still explain they have an "external" source they can use autoject

another serious question for the osddid community

when you make an oc and then get an alter of said oc is that technically an introject? like one of ours just considers herself brainmade since she barely associates with her source anyway (literally an oc we had at like 12) but then another considers themself an introject so it’s??

like are they technically brainmade since yeah it’s an existing character but it’s YOUR OWN existing character or like? 😭

ik labels don’t matter that much but i’ve been curious for a while now

is it okay to treat alters like their source if they ask/want to be treated that way?

Why wouldn't be ok? If they ask to and want that go ahead and do it

The phrase "Don't treat alters like their source" it's because a lot of alters don't ID with source, have problems with it and prefer to not be treated as it, or in some cases people minimize the alter just to their source when we have to remember that their more than their source

Source separation is good for some alters, for some others is not and it can be harmful in some cases, like a lot of things is "it depends"

I could talk about all the implications and all that info but I don't want to fill my main blog with this topic, I mostly use our @syspport for that (so if you want a more in depth response and want to make more specific questions related to that topic you can go there and do it), and maybe I'll use the @cddcommunity blog to talk about how the community treats the introjects and sources things

Thanks for the ask! I don't normally get asks here so seeing an ask mayme so happy /pos

As an introject of a whole system we knew and because I'm the head of a subsystem of introjects of alters of that system

Thanks, I appreciate the recognition and validation /pos

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I love you systems who have introjects of other systems whether from how you view them as a whole, their alters, etc. You are based and your experience and existence isn't weird. Keep chugging that based alter juice, you deserve it

shout out to fictives who:

do keep their source name

dont keep their source name

feel disconnected from their source

have intentionally distanced themselves from their source

have an "embarrassing" or "cringy" source

really love their source

feel like they're too different from their source

really miss their source world, family, and friends

theres no right or wrong way to be a fictive, just be yourself and you're doing more than enough. ♡