Also the body is running on 5 hours sleep yay

Aww that sounds so lovely!! ♥️

useful for prompts when privately journalling, figuring out our system, and communicating between alters.

I miss it too! We find social media nowadays way too fast-paced, especially discord. We miss meaningful discussions. Maybe there are still some good forums out there, but I'm not sure. I guess Reddit is the closest now.

If I can remember the name, and it's still up I'll link you! It was super

others.

I've only really been lurking on the borders of the community for the past 15 years or so though, and don't know too much about the modern community, so I could be totally wrong with stuff here!

kind of sense. I hate the drama in the plural community, and I used to scour DID faker call out posts and get so angry and frustrated at people. I think there ARE fakers, but I also think if people are faking, they'll grow out of it, realise they're not a system and hopefully not try to speak for

themselves). But we don't know how it all works properly. We only know with certain that we are a system and have been for 30 years. We do doubt it sometimes because of the lack of a formal diagnosis, but it's not like people can't still be systems if they are undiagnosed.

I hope this makes some

misinterpret other symptoms as having a system. It's all highly personal to the individual, I suppose.

The issue we have is when people feel as though they can talk for ALL people, and especially when they claim DID has to be a certain way, spread misinformation (either by accident or to validate

exhausting. We stopped talking to anyone plural outside of close friends and our partner's system, because we didn't trust anyone.

I think we're just done being like that, super critical of everyone. We understand there's no one way in which plurality presents, but we also think some people might

over some systems, because we've straight up had people pretending to be systems in the past to get close to and manipulate us, and it's happened multiple times. It made us feel like we were constantly worrying about fakers, about people thinking we're faking, about who to trust and not. It was

Honestly, it's taken a long time for us to be more open to things. We always struggled so much with our trauma and dissociation, and seeing some people seem to have fun with it and be so open about it made us angry, distressed, and basically just assume everyone was faking. We still get suspicious

doubted my BPD diagnosis and wondered if I have DID, and have been misdiagnosed. But we're also ADHD so it gets even more complicated :S Once we finally stopped caring if we were "plural enough" or whatever, we're much happier and not at odds with ourselves.

Yeah, it's honestly so confusing! BPD causes a fractured sense of self, and each part can feel very different and even have memory/time loss between them. I imagine that there is probably a strong overlap between BPD and DID, and lots of misdiagnosis too.

I've had times where I have seriously

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