This was kind of like a spur-of-the-moment thing since it's something that you guys should know about. I am plural,and you will probably be asking, what is being plural? Being plural means that you are several people in one body. This can be disordered or not disordered, and if it is disordered,you are either traumagenic, which is the most common for things like DID and OSDD, which are traumagenic, which is a system made from trauma. For context, a plural person is also known as a system. Or you are endogenic, which means that you are a system without trauma. I do believe I am traumagenic, as we are a system in order to cope. Quick clarification I want to make. I do not have DID nor OSDD. I am not diagnosed with those. I am unable to get diagnosed. I am simply plural. I do not have the disorder. I am not an endogenic. I just want to make that clear because it's like all of those labels often get very mixed up, which causes a lot of confusion and more misinformation among those communities. So just a bit of a deeper dive on what my kind of being plural is, is that we are several people in one body, and that is something that had happened as a coping mechanism after several experiences of trauma, of which I will not be speaking about on the internet. And for context, I'm in my teens. A lot of these experiences did happen in my earlier teens, but a very large amount of them also happened in my younger childhood, which included things like bullying, family problems, things like that, which again I'm not going to be getting very far into due to just wanting to keep that private. Now for talking about the present, we currently have six people in our system. The person currently talking is Eli. I, Eli, I'm usually able to be thought of as I tend to be more angry, impulsive. But we also have 4 others other than myself,there's (Dr.) Hodgens,Kade,Nick and Abby ( And Noah our host ) so I'm a trauma holder, which is why I am, I tend to be labeled by the others as more aggressive or impulsive and not fronting as much. For context, fronting means who is the person talking, who's the person, who's the person present at the moment. I don't front very often because I'm mostly just a trauma holder, which means that I hold just like our feelings towards the things that we had gone through, specifically anger, and which tends to, I can get mad just pretty easily, and I tend to just blow up at things rather than try to sort it out. And it's not something I'm proud of, but it's what I just ended up doing. Oh yeah, okay, but at the same time, all of us except Abby, since she's our little- all of us except Abby all own this account together It's just Noah is the one who started it, it was his idea, it's basically- it's his thing, but when he's not here, we all take care of it for him.Dr.Hodgens or just Hodgens is a fictive- He's from the show Bones then we have Max, she's our little,who is mostly just- she's a bit of a positive memory holder because she doesn't front very often, but she's just like- the best way I could describe it is just a representation of a child that we once were that just- that just didn't have what she needed. So she- she's very whimsical, she is definitely mentally the youngest out of all of us. I'm around the middle, um, yeah Hodgens is the oldest, and then Nick, Eli, me, Kade and then Abby. Anyway, so one thing i do want to clarify is that how can someone be plural without having a dissociative disorder? So again, I have done as much research as I can, but I cannot stress this enough, misinformation happens. If I am incorrect, using the wrong term, or misinformed on anything I say, please correct me in the comments, okay? Please. But one thing is that plurality is often, even with its- when it's not disordered, it's often a form of dissociation, which it is for us, but it is a coping mechanism as we are as a whole in generally in life just not going through a very good time, and we haven't been for a long while. like it's because we had become like this as a way to cope. It was not something chosen or voluntary,it's just something that happened, and that's how I live now. if you have any questions about it feel free to comment, and again if I got any terms wrong or any explanations wrong please correct me, I have done as much research as I could,but we're all human, we make mistakes, we get things wrong, I forget things a lot.So yeah that's pretty much it, take care of yourself, keep yourself fed, okay? Just be safe, I love you guys. - Eli ◇
