That’s very interessing, i didn’t knew it was a thing! The more i read about plurals the more it gets interessing
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Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 days ago
Fun fact: I know a Petra Parker fictive!
My girlfriend is plural, which means there are other people living in her head. Plural systems often form new people based on fiction, because a fictional persona that one’s system feels a strong connection to, makes for a good scaffolding for a nascent identity in the process of forming. And when a plural system member forms based on a fictional source, it’s called introjection. A headmate that’s been introjected is a fictive.
Spider-Woman is lots of fun, but I don’t hang with her that often. I spend a lot more time with Shadow the Hedgehog, who lives in My other partner’s head.
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Aralakh@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Whoa that’s fascinating! Is it something akin to dissociative identity disorder (DiD) then? I ask, as the only person I know with a similar experience has been diagnosed with DiD.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 days ago
DID is one of the ways to be plural. DID is a form of traumagenic plurality, which means the system was created by trauma. The other big category is endogenic plurality, which is when the system is created from within.
There’s actually a significant faction of systems with DID and OSDD who think that traumagenic plurality is the only genuine kind of plurality. They think endogenic systems are all faking it. That view is called sysmedicalism, because they think your system is only real if you’ve been diagnosed by the medical industry. The debate between sysmedicalists and endogenic allies is called syscourse.
Aralakh@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Wow thanks for the response, that’s quite enlightening as my knowledge of the whole is rather minimal. What is OSDD?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 days ago
Otherwise Specified Dissociative disorder. It’s used when a patient doesn’t meet the criteria for DID, but they clearly have dissociated identities formed in the typical DID way. For example if a system had the switching but not the switch amnesia, they could get OSDD