Idk if I should send this here or to your other blog, but today I got harassed by a group of a selfproclaimed system gatekeeping club. They said that I cant be a system without DID, that I had to have had a traumatic experience between 6-8, that a system cant be comprised of entirely fictives, and that I’m roleplaying or mistaking my mood swings as other people. When I said Id been a system since middle school (I’m 20), before I knew what it was, they said Ive been faking for a really long time.
There is a small but loud group of DID/OSDD-1 sufferers (many of whom are self diagnosed) who have appointed themselves the system police on tumblr. Here’s what you should know about them:
- They lack historical/social precedent. Non-DID multiples have traditionally shared space with DID multiples since the mid 90s. (source)
- They tend to call language appropriation when it is not. (Headmate and fictive were both coined by the non-DID multiple community to describe their own experiences, and system has been used by all kinds of multiples for over 20 years)
- They will not listen to anything you say.
- You can either ignore them, or stop using the word ‘system’ and switch to ‘collective’ to potentially get them off your back. you are under no obligation to do this.
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