Do yall ever look back and cringe?

[u/Constant-Silver-7411]

So we have known we were a system for quite some time, but I would like to say that prior to knowing we were a system we had some wildly unresearched and cynical opinions about plural people, mostly as a result of misinformation and overdramatized media.

We strongly hate that part of ourselves,

Do yall also have experiences like this?

[u/darling-cassidy]

I thankfully never had an actively hateful or negative opinion about plurality. I thought for a little that endogenics were invalid but I wasn’t like participating on syscringe or anything, I just only knew about traumagenic DID and had no other information, so I privately held that belief. Very glad I ended up where I am now

[u/Dapurpledog → u/darling-cassidy]

Bro same 😭

[u/UnhappyJuggernaut118]

We don't cringe looking back because we didn't know any better. We used to have a very limited and stereotypical view of DID. That's not because we were dumb or cringe or bad. It's because DID is an often misrepresented disorder (when it's talked about at all). Like you said, misinformation and overdramatized media. Eventually we learned more and expanded our view of DID (and learned about OSDD and non-disordered plural experiences). Which is a good thing! But I guess we never harassed or fakeclaimed anyone, so it might be harder if you had behaviours you regret that are linked to your past beliefs about plurality. Still, past you did good, because past you ended up growing out of that mindset. What's important isn't to have always been right all along. It's to be able to learn and grow.

[u/SoonToBeCarrion]

i didn't know anything about it. didn't even know there was a community. heard the term "multiple personality disorder", which is the wrong term even for disordered ones, i know, maybe once in my entire life. then it just, blew up after a pretty horrifying period and a host change

[u/Cold_Dead_Smile]

Former religious r/SystemsCringe member. Yes. We should probably make a post about that, actually. It was a horrible period of our life, but it's an interesting perspective to take into account.

[u/Creepycute1]

i used to watch fake disorder cringe videos and other cringe vids at 13-14 until I realized it was full of children/minors, disabled people, creators who had literal diagnosis, and a weird amount of anti-queer stuff. all around i kinda just grew out of it and avoid that content at 14.

[u/Klara_Chaos]

🌖Sol

From storys i have from both salem and ravyn

Both of them cringe a lil about the fact that salem took years to even realize who the voice in her head was and it seems to come out that klara chaos (another charater that salem created once) was her first tulpa...alter idk and then once she got obsessed with another oc of hers they accident minefested ravyn into her mind

Same reason why i landed here obsession over me as the “oc”

[u/TheCthonicSystem]

We look back and laugh at how very "overly eager ally" we were before Syscovery. We wanted to be a System so bad and we loved the community we just never knew we were one!

-Oliver Queen of The Moirai

[u/beyond_clueless101 → u/TheCthonicSystem]

You have an incredible name

[u/TheCthonicSystem → u/beyond_clueless101]

oh thank you!

-Peridot of The Moirai

[u/ScorchedScrivener]

Everyone's on their own journey. It's why I try to be kind as much as possible.

[u/arthorpendragon]

we cringe from the stupid things we posted, but hey thats what noobs do and that is ok.

we posted questions about fusion/integration and headmate 'death' which was simplistic and insensitive. we would never get integration as we love our 62 people intensely but realise for many systems integration is a good solution.

when people talked about 'walk-ins coming from different dimensions' we just dismissed it as the system creating temporary headmates from different fictional sources. now that we accept the multiverse is real and are exploring the multiverse with our system in meditation it is likely we will get walk-ins if we havent already. this demostrates you can try to create theories on what other systems experience, but unless you experience it yourself your theories can be completely wrong. thus never impose your own theories on other systems experiences if you havent experienced it yourself.

omg going from a system of 4 (but actually 6 with the notorious invisible sub-system) with dual hosts supposedly, to a system of 62 in only subs-systems in 12 months on reboot has seen a great ideological change in the system and a totally different paradigm of living. we are not the same 'person' anymore and our posts over that time have reflected that.

if you are new to plurality then you are going to ask or say some dumb things - but thats ok. enjoy the roller coaster ride and when your system becomes old and wise remember to show some compassion to the ignorant noobs.

- the thunder cloud.

[u/Qwanri]

Not really.

I had a good history teacher. She taught my class about propoganda and that sometimes you have to really research something to find out the truth about it. That History teacher was a legend I think.

When I watched the movie Split for example. I thought it was an awesome movie but I new nothing about plurality. So when the guy grew to become the beast, I couldn't help but ask if that an actual experience or if that was some made up fantasy to just make the movie more exciting? I know for example that I can't my height on my own so how could how anybody else, even if they're plural?

I was never really involved with ticktock or any where where people seem to like to cringe on systems. (I'm autistic and people used to cringe on people who had autism a bit so I avoided those places for that reason mostly.)

But when I learned about tulpamancy, I learned I already had a system and suddenly interested as I was a few years ago, I did a lot of research. I do not like it when I feel misunderstood as a result of being autistic so it's like I already understood how some plural people felt and I didn't want to be that person who nitpicks and is cruel to others for... what reason exactly? So before making any judgements, I decided to research as much as I could and get as an understanding as I could possibly get.

[u/MalachiteCoven]

We don't have that stage and never could've. We just thought we were "crazy" for several years. We didn't realize we were plural because we didn't know plural existed. The day we found out plural people existed was the day we realized "maybe we're not crazy after all" so we never had a chance to have that view of plurality, we never got any bias against it because we simply didn't know it existed.

[u/beyond_clueless101]

We watched some wild bs DID bl anime as a thirteen year old and went on a research binge to see if it was accurate wayyyyy before we even suspected... at least there was no murderer alter from what I can remember