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So I'm not having the time to use here as much, but I've been active on Twitter: @octopus_system

I follow systems back so follow me there guys ♡

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To newly discovered systems who are still questioning everything:

(Here's basically everything we wish we knew up front).

- However many alters your system has is fine. You don't have too many. You'll probably realize you have more than you originally thought as time goes on.

- It's really normal to have nonhuman alters.

- It's really normal to have fictives.

- Not every alter needs to fit into a specific obvious role. A lot of alters will probably fill more than one role in your system.

- Being the host doesn't mean you're the "real" person and they're YOUR alters.

- Being an alter doesn't mean you're not the "real" person. Everyone, even the host, is an alter too.

- Persecutors aren't evil and if you treat them like that, they'll just get more problematic.

- However often you switch is normal. If you switch multiple times an hour, great. If you don't switch for weeks on end, also great. That's how your system works and it's fine.

- Age is weird in systems. You can have adult alters who lack the maturity and ability to function like other adults. You can have littles who are able to make complex decisions. Don't assume what an alter is capable of based on their age without actually getting to know them.

- 99% of the time there's no benefit in having a formal diagnosis beyond validating YOU. A trauma and dissociation oriented therapist can help treat your symptoms without making a formal dx. In fact, you might be better off without having that dx on paper.

- You don't owe anyone proof that you're not faking it.

- Thinking that you're faking it is extremely common. If you have to worry about that, you're not faking it. You'd have to make the intentional, conscious decision to fake it.

- Not knowing who you are is common. Blurring together/ passive influence is really common.

- You can split again simply out of necessity; you don't always have to go through a new traumatic event to split.

- CSA isn't the only type of trauma that can result in DID. Any type of ongoing trauma in childhood can cause DID.

- "Is it normal if _____?" Probably. The experience of being/ having a system is incredible subjective and varied.

- There's a good chance your inner world is more or less a vivid daydream. It doesn't have to be like a literal place you "go" when you're not fronting. If it is, cool, but it doesn't have to be.

- Some systems have to intentionally create their inner world to aid in communication. Not everybody just has one automatically.

- At the end of the day, you are one person. In the long run it'll benefit you to remember that and not over-focus on all your differences because that can increase dissociative barriers among other things.

- You are collectively responsible for each other's actions and need to learn to work as a team, as much as you can.

- Yes switching during dreams is a thing.

- In-system relationships between alters is a thing and it's not weird. It's common.

- If you can't track down when and how everyone in your system split that's normal.

- You don't all have to be super distinct to be valid. It's normal for alters to have a lot in common/ to have overlapping traits. Again, you're all part of the same person.

- Alters having a different accent internally but not using it externally is a thing.

- Substances will affect switching and internal communication.

- If you all just use your physical birthday and don't celebrate individually that's fine. If some or all of you celebrate different birthdays/ significant dates that's fine.

- Sharing a romantic/ sexual relationship with a partner is fine and normal, but you also don't have to. However, you should work towards everyone in the system having some kind of positive relationship with your partner because it'll make things way easier.

- You don't owe it to anyone to tell who's fronting.

- If you don't even know who's fronting that's fine. It's normal to not always know.

- If your switches aren't obvious to anyone outside of you and you don't all act super different, that's normal. It's a covert disorder.

- Alters intentionally doing things to give themselves a sense of individuality is normal. Sometimes it's a coping mechanism. If you do things like develop your own handwriting on purpose, that doesn't mean you're faking.

- Dissociative amnesia can happen without switching. Sometimes it's all 100% you and your memory can still be crap.

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Today the video was about Katy!

Also, we're still going to post texts about us here, as soon as I have time.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMejAPhCh/

So we started a TikTok acc and I "Meet the alter" series. Go follow if you wanna!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe2HDGNX/

#meet the alters #did #osdd #dissociative identity disorder #other specified dissociative disorder #actually dissociative #actually multiple #osdd 1b #did system #system things #osdd system

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my last polaroid of 2020

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New video, today introducing Devil!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe2vRKCr/

So we started a TikTok acc and I "Meet the alter" series. Go follow if you wanna!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe2HDGNX/

#meet the alters #did #osdd #dissociative identity disorder #other specified dissociative disorder #actually dissociative #actually multiple #osdd 1b #did system #system things #osdd system

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We are not burdens for needing help

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Chronics of being an autistic system #4

Devil can front!

I use to think that me (Theo) was the only one that could front if we weren't in a super extreme situation but last night Devil fronted and when we woke up she was still on the front!

I was co-conscious all the time, but she was fronting and that was a cool experience. She has being passively influencing me for some years but I think it was the third time she fronted and the first one without the body being in extreme distress.

I still have a lot of insecurities and I think I block the others from taking the front. I'm very overconscious of my body and never even relax completely so it's hard to let other take control.

But what happened showed me that maybe I was wrong about having only partial DID, because they can front we just have to work that better. So I now think we may have OSDD1B. Next Tuesday I will tell all of this to our therapist.

#chronics of being an autistic system #other specified dissociative disorder #osdd system #osdd #osdd 1b #osdd1b #actually multiple #actually dissociative #system things #did #autism #neurodivergent

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if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now

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So we started a TikTok acc and I "Meet the alter" series. Go follow if you wanna!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe2HDGNX/

#meet the alters #did #osdd #dissociative identity disorder #other specified dissociative disorder #actually dissociative #actually multiple #osdd 1b #system things #did system #osdd system #autism #neurodivergent #mental health recovery

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