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a note for anyone who makes "how to spot a faker" lists

read kluft's 1991 paper "Clinical Presentations of Multiple Personality Disorder" and see how many of your "signs of a fake system" are documented presentations written down over 30 years ago

i'll probably end up posting a summary of it at some point but im too busy right now

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There's a huge difference between a therapist working within your belief system, and a therapist and psychiatrist both saying "because this isn't causing you all distress or dysfunction, it is, by definition, not any disorder, and it's clearly beneficial to your group's wellbeing to work with your systemmates to help with the things you all have that are disorders." Like the one is humoring the patient/client, the other is actively supporting the endogenic, nondisordered plurality. Our experience is the latter from three separate psych teams (a therapist and a psychiatrist) over the past decade.

My syscourse hot take is that people wildly misinterpret what therapists say to fit their narratives, yes even when that therapist is their own

A good therapist is going to accept whatever you tell them about yourself bcs they know that out right telling you “this isn’t true” without the patient showing that’s what they need to hear is just gonna be counterproductive

They’re here to help you be better and heal, so telling you “no this is completely wrong and goes against literally everything known to the field” is just gonna cause you to drop the therapist and not get the help needed, and I really wish people would stop taking a therapist agreeing with them as evidence for literally anything as if they’re authorities on the matter and the psychology field is dictated by a single person who happens to agree with you

never really heard of this as being a major point in syscourse (is it one?) but it's an interesting thought. thanks for the ask!

#syscourse

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Changing my belief system from "this is the hill I'll die on" to "this is the hill I'll kill you on" has done absolute wonders for me 10/10 do recommend

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May Writing Challenge

This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊

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This is the public statement from @alepresser and myself which went up at Webtoons tonight.

Now for some ranting. Just from me, not from Ale—she's innocent of the art crimes I've committed in the past, and boy howdy have I committed art crimes.

This is the first page of my first webcomic, A Girl and Her Fed. I started this thing back in 2006. (I don't actually need a head count of those reading this who weren't yet born in 2006. I'm sure you're delightful and I wish you well in college.)

And this is the last page I drew in early 2020 before I turned art duties over to Dr. Beer. It's better, right?

Well, these days, A Girl and Her Fed has pages like this:

I drew this comic for fourteen fucking years because it's a story I wanted to tell, and I thought webcomics were the perfect format for it. I didn't know how to draw. I got better through sheer obstinate perseverance and sticking to deadlines as best I could for, again, fourteen fucking years. I sought out a replacement artist when I ran into time constraints and couldn't do art plus writing anymore; I'm a much better writer than an artist, so I had no problems whatsoever kicking art to the curb.

The first time Ale sent me art that would go up on the website—art I hadn't needed to draw myself—I literally cried in relief because I had been grinding myself down for, yet again, fourteen fucking years.

So when I read comments from people who say they want to make a webcomic but can't draw themselves and therefore need to resort to AI, that little line between my eyes gets dangerously deep.

This isn't like I'm some old dude who's bitching over student loans getting cancelled after making regular payments. This is me, someone who threw raw art onto the internet like a monkey hurling fresh poo, because I wanted to make a webcomic and the art is part of the process of storytelling via webcomics! I could've (arguably should've) hired an artist right out of the gate, and that would've been part of the process of making comics, too: a partnership between an artist and a writer is also something which grows and develops over time.

For example, after Dr. Beer and I spent two years working on AGAHF, we decided we enjoyed our partnership so much that we set out to make another webcomic! It's great! It's got wonderful art and consistent storytelling! You should read it!

But turning art duties over to unaltered images generated by AI because you want to make a webcomic but "just can't draw" is, frankly, a bullshit excuse. I'm not talking about persons who are physically unable to draw due to disability—I'm talking about people who say they want to make webcomics but simply don't wanna do the art part.

Friends, if you don't want to show your entire ass in front of God and country, you don't actually want to make a webcomic.

Do the thing yourself.

If you're scared, don't be. Take the plunge. Set a goal of twenty strips and do the thing yourself. If you can already draw but can't write? Great! Write twenty strips, write forty panels, etc. You might surprise yourself. If you can write but can't draw? Great! Draw twenty panels and see what happens.

Whatever comes out of it, it's a thing you've done yourself. It's something new you've given to the world, no matter how big or small. Be proud of that. And if you need to partner with someone else to make your comic dreams work? You can do that, too! It's still a thing you've done yourself, and many projects are stronger when done together.

...but maaaaaaaaaybe hire that partner before you've busted your own ass for fourteen fucking years. That one's on me.

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“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.

Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.

These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”

from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’

—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015

One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.

Mind how you go.

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In light of recent posts, I find myself wondering - if wizards can boil water almost instantly for the expenditure of a little personal energy, have they figured out how to caramelize onions quickly? Nita briefly wonders about culinary wizardry (in Wizard’s Holiday, if I recall correctly) but I can only imagine the possibilities!

Probably there are methods that would work. But I'm finding it all too easy to hear what the onion would have to say about that... looking back at that discussion with the lettuce.

—I'm sorry, you want me to what?? Excuse me very much, but I am being transmuted, here! I am in the process of learning a whole new style of existence! I who was only ever fierce and overwhelming am being made subtle and sweet! I am becoming something I thought was never even going to be possible for me! Here I am, in fact, relinquishing my old state of being for a new one—indeed, right in the middle of dying in slow nurturing fire and ascending into glory—and you want me to rush? Fine. Be that way. And when you're in your last moments of your old existence and relishing your last chance to say farewell to all you've been and once held dear, I hope some unsympathetic transdimensional being that forgot to pack enough fucking Planck time comes along and tells you to hurry up. But yeah, sure, go right ahead. Just try to push me. I am going to scorch so bad. Won't waste my time feeling guilty about it, either. ...Gonna give you heartburn, too. Just watch, smutbutt.

...In any case, on the whole, I suspect that wizards who routinely work in the culinary mode need to be either quite patient, or made of fairly stern stuff. :)

HTH.

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Twitter Sysmed tells me to hang myself after I state the fact that anti-endos are a hate group...

Really wanting to prove the point there, huh?

So, yeah! Here's your reminder that anti-endos are a hate group, and that there are not two equal side in syscourse. There is one side that is supported by actual science and research, a marginalized community that is just trying to exist in peace. And then there's a hate group that wants us gone, which hides behind "science" as a buzzword despite not one paper anywhere supporting their beliefs.

Sometimes in life, things are black and white. There is no validity to anti-endo positions or beliefs. There is no justification for the hate they spread. And there should be no tolerance for them anywhere.

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Yet another case of confident incorrectness caused by the mental blinders of bias.

Here they're discounting the experience of the case presentation in this chapter of a trans, traumagenic DID system, who was turned away from clinics because she was trans and a traumagenic DID system, because OP assumes she's endo and nondisordered.

I really can't do anything at this point except laugh at the ridiculousness of it.

"we have lines and lines of research saying that DID is caused by trauma"

For starters we don't say that DID is never caused by trauma. We agree, trauma can cause it. We DON'T agree that plurality, both disordered and non, are always only caused by trauma.

For another... Lines and lines? ROFLMAO. We have a multiple paged* document linking to sources with relevant excerpts, and a 25 tweet thread with images of some of the sources.

Lines and lines. Hilarious.

*I can't check how many pages at the moment as Google Docs keeps wanting to show it without pagination but I'm sure someone else can grab that statistic for me

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In 100% genuineness and sincerity, I so appreciate all of you anti-endos and endo-criticals here on Tumblr, because unlike the goofballs over on Twitter, y'all actually read and know things.

We can still disagree on things, but at least y'all have never told me nonsense like "you can't trust the ICD because anyone can edit it" (from a person who thought that the coding help tab was about html or something instead of medical billing and coding) or that the European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation isn't a reliable source because OP isn't European, or that the DSM-V-TR is only available in pdf so it's not "really published" when you can look it up on Amazon in less than five seconds and find both a paperback and hardback version with over 2000 reviews.

I mean it's a low bar to be sure, but y'all clear that hurdle like you're pole vaulting instead.

#syscourse #Crystal.txt #Librarian.txt

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Even more confident wrongness, as that thread continues:

Another example of not actually looking at what they're trying to dismiss.

Oh and apparently the ICD-11, the most used global diagnostic and medical billing manual in the world, is also wrong because it's only got "diseases" in the name. So you think it can't be used to code a broken arm just because a broken arm isn't a disease? LOL

"we have lines and lines of research saying that DID is caused by trauma"

For starters we don't say that DID is never caused by trauma. We agree, trauma can cause it. We DON'T agree that plurality, both disordered and non, are always only caused by trauma.

For another... Lines and lines? ROFLMAO. We have a multiple paged* document linking to sources with relevant excerpts, and a 25 tweet thread with images of some of the sources.

Lines and lines. Hilarious.

*I can't check how many pages at the moment as Google Docs keeps wanting to show it without pagination but I'm sure someone else can grab that statistic for me

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From the same thread.

Autocorrect really failed me in that tweet. It should have read:

"How can you be so wrong and so confident lol

This took literally five seconds to prove wrong"

"we have lines and lines of research saying that DID is caused by trauma"

For starters we don't say that DID is never caused by trauma. We agree, trauma can cause it. We DON'T agree that plurality, both disordered and non, are always only caused by trauma.

For another... Lines and lines? ROFLMAO. We have a multiple paged* document linking to sources with relevant excerpts, and a 25 tweet thread with images of some of the sources.

Lines and lines. Hilarious.

*I can't check how many pages at the moment as Google Docs keeps wanting to show it without pagination but I'm sure someone else can grab that statistic for me

#syscourse #Twitter syscourse #The height of arrogance in that confident wrongness matches the height of Olympus Mons

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There's been more in the past, but currently the only recent-ish thing (edit to clarify: that I know about) is a Tumblr user by the name of @/headmateeconomy. There's also some on TikTok, though it's hard to say who there is serious and who's just trolling. I haven't seen any of it recently though myself, as I've carefully curated the algorithm to give me only standup comedy, indie musicians, animals that talk - both birds, and also dogs and cats with the talking buttons - medical comedy/venting that is hilarious but also sadly true, and D&D memes. I kinda want to create a new TikTok profile just so I can see the system side of TT... But it's so toxic there I really don't think that would be wise.

Stop "Selling" Systemmates

Hey, if I see you "selling" systemmates, consensual or not, I am going to whap you on the head with a rolled up newspaper. That sh!t is fucking YIKES.

You're "selling" PEOPLE, full fledged people, which, I don't think I have to spell out why that's so fucked up.

How the fuck do you "sell" a systemmate? I personally think system-hopping is a load of bullsh!t, and whoever is "selling" systemmates is using that belief to scam people. (No offense to spiritual systems who have those beliefs, but in this case, it's being used to scam people).

Making systemmates for the purpose of "selling" them is just... god, imagine how YOU'D feel if you were brought into existence, just to be sold to some someone you've never met.

Why the hell would you pay for a systemmate? Tulpamancy is 100% free. That is such a scam. I get selling services like setting up Pluralkit bios, commissions for systemmates, etc, but not this.

So yeah! If you're "selling" systemmates, stop it! Just stop. If I see anyone follow me who partakes in that sh!t, it's a block on sight.

Can't even believe I need to make this post.

4-27-2024

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Stop "Selling" Systemmates

Hey, if I see you "selling" systemmates, consensual or not, I am going to whap you on the head with a rolled up newspaper. That sh!t is fucking YIKES.

You're "selling" PEOPLE, full fledged people, which, I don't think I have to spell out why that's so fucked up.

How the fuck do you "sell" a systemmate? I personally think system-hopping is a load of bullsh!t, and whoever is "selling" systemmates is using that belief to scam people. (No offense to spiritual systems who have those beliefs, but in this case, it's being used to scam people).

Making systemmates for the purpose of "selling" them is just... god, imagine how YOU'D feel if you were brought into existence, just to be sold to some someone you've never met.

Why the hell would you pay for a systemmate? Tulpamancy is 100% free. That is such a scam. I get selling services like setting up Pluralkit bios, commissions for systemmates, etc, but not this.

So yeah! If you're "selling" systemmates, stop it! Just stop. If I see anyone follow me who partakes in that sh!t, it's a block on sight.

Can't even believe I need to make this post.

4-27-2024

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the document is actually pageless so it scrolls forever without page breaks

That seems to be because it's set as a mobile basic link. We got it up on our pc without that and it came with pages, which is 30 currently.

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I got it to come up on my computer with pagination.

30 pages.

And they've got "lines and lines"

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"we have lines and lines of research saying that DID is caused by trauma"

For starters we don't say that DID is never caused by trauma. We agree, trauma can cause it. We DON'T agree that plurality, both disordered and non, are always only caused by trauma.

For another... Lines and lines? ROFLMAO. We have a multiple paged* document linking to sources with relevant excerpts, and a 25 tweet thread with images of some of the sources.

Lines and lines. Hilarious.

*I can't check how many pages at the moment as Google Docs keeps wanting to show it without pagination but I'm sure someone else can grab that statistic for me