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ppl out here saying endogenic systems r real when i cannot find a single site/source regarding them outside of tumblr
The term was created here a couple of years ago because of how offensive the previously-used term, “natural system”, was.
Look up that, healthy multiplicity, non-DID systems, tulpas, soulbonds, you’ll find plenty.
We non-DID systems have been part of multiplicity communities since at least the early 1990s, as evidenced by the FAQ for the usenet group alt.support.dissociation, and there’s all kinds of early sources and references to us and articles etc on Astrea’s Web (which isn’t a perfect source by any means, due to their rather… Intense… Distrust of psychiatry, but they’re still a source showing that this isn’t a new thing by any means.)
It’s just a new name for an old phenomenon, created in reaction to the Tumblr backlash against the term “natural multiplicity”, and the whole “only trauma causes DID and only DID causes multiplicity” discourse here. That term is slowly starting to spread outside of Tumblr to other communities who have been using other terms since before Tumblr even existed.
Creators of the term “endogenic” here, confirming.
We’ve been in the plural community since the late 1990s, with our first experiences with the idea of non-DID multiplicity being on Yahoo Groups, LiveJournal, GreatestJournal, InsaneJournal, DeviantArt, etc. No, you’re not gonna find the term “endogenic” there because duh, we came up with it in 2014 on tumblr. But the concept of multiplicity without a diagnosis? Pretty damn ancient concept, at this point.
I mean, the term “headmate” was coined by soulbonders wayyy before tumblr. So yeah. It’s been around.>_>
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