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okay, so everyone is getting mad about “fake systems”, but i think the issue is that they are misunderstanding the actual definition of “head mates” and “fronting”? it seems like some people think they are synonymous with kin shifts/personality shifts when that isn’t the case.
a head mate isn’t a kintype. head mates are entirely separate consciousnesses that have their own thoughts and feelings. they are like more than one person living inside one body, so they take turns fronting and being in control. and someone will need to have gone through childhood trauma at a young age for their psyche to be split like this. it’s pretty impossible for it to just happen on it’s own, or for someone to be born with their head mates already existing.
people are able to have bpd and did/ddnos at the same time and people can experience dissociation without having a system (there’s more than one “type” of dissociation) but identity issues and system members are NOT the same thing.
Just so you know, the term headmate originates in the endogenic/non-DID multiple community. The word is used to distinguish between the headmates that those people have, versus the alters that DID sufferers have.
Soulbonders and other natural multiples are not scientifically recognized. This is absolutely true. However, people seem to be taking ‘not scientifically recognized’ to mean ‘fake’ which is not the case.
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