Is it okay that I'm a ______-genic system?

First of all, no one has to qualify or identify what type of system they are to be a stream chat participant. We are as all-inclusive as we are able to be for all forms of plurality, be it traumagenic, cultural, spiritual, etc. 

That being said, we do personally have trauma around certain topics within the plural communities just as we have trauma around any other variety of life topics. We ask that out of respect for our safety and well-being that Discourse/Syscourse and discussion of the phenomena known as “Head-Hopping”, “System-Hopping”, and “T*lp*mancy” not be brought up or discussed in our community. We will not be explaining or debating this. Plurals who have these experiences are welcome and we genuinely wish for you safe and welcoming environments where you are able to share and discuss such experiences. The ZanitySystem community will not be one of such environments at this time.

While you’re asking this question we know that there are sundry other plural and DID/OSDD related hot-button issues you might like to know our stance about so that you can adequately determine what level of engagement and support of the ZanitySystem community works best for you. First, we’re not an Educator or Advocate. We’re a Creative and an Entertainer. While we do have a section in our Carrd [Click Here] dedicated to displaying our stances in bullet-points I’ll take a moment to lay it out here as well. A lot of the following will be terminology that will basically only pertain to you if you already know it.

The following are not up for the topic of debate or discourse with ZanitySystem or within the ZanitySystem community until and only such a time and for only so long as Zanity is open to it.

•  We do not tolerate fake-claiming in any capacity.

• To clarify - if the individual themself is admitting to faking their plurality we still do not want to hear it and it will not be welcome in our community. 

• This extends to any Mental Health Condition. Not exclusively Dissociative and Trauma disorders.

• We do not tolerate ‘head-hopping’ or ‘tulpamancy’ conversations.

• We will engage in discussion only on our own terms and will not be bullied or coerced into discourse

• Your own journey is valid, we do not have to be part of it for you to exist and be wonderful as you are. Please speak with us about any other topic or thing that inspires you, drives you, or is related to the topic of the content you’re engaging with.

• We accept and celebrate endogenic AND traumagenic origins

• We hold the stance that a disorder is an extreme version of what is already possible, we accept that multiplicity of identity, perception, and memory can exist without developmental trauma. Aka Phenomenological Polypsycism, Psychological Polypsycism 

• We validate the compartmentalization and dissociative barriers between self-states that has resulted from developmental trauma, and the resulting challenges. 

• We recommend the educational foundations of Jungian Psychology, Internal Family Systems, NICABM, the ISST-D

• We denounce the ISST-D’s misuse of individual patient’s social media in academia, lectures, and research without the individual’s express ongoing informed consent and due compensation.

• We acknowledge C-PTSD as a legitimate, and valid disorder

• We validate the experiences of MC/MK/RA/SRA systems

• We validate that ESP/Empath/Clairvoyance is a trauma response to have keen subconscious reasoning(intuition) for the subtleties in micro-facial expressions, body language, and nuanced pattern of behavior

• We accept that the DSM is not the Golden Tablet (end all, be all) of human experiences and possibilities.

•  It cannot explain, define, box, or limit the lived experiences of individuals to the extent that it should be allowed to gaslight, subjugate, and abuse both systemically and interpersonally. 

• We acknowledge that the DSM is a tool of systemic oppression which has been twisted from it’s original design and fails to fulfill it’s modern purposes. It is classist, racist, ableist, and sexist. 

• We acknowledge that the DSM is a tool by which many (including ourselves) gain access to necessary treatments and supports. That it is both flawed and harmful as well as ingrained in our accessible resource structures. 

• We seek to remove the lens of the DSM from real personal every day experiences and to hold the idiolects and lived experiences of individuals above the perspective provided by tools of systemic oppression. 

• We accept and validate cultural and spiritual multiplicity

• Our experience of the history of the community terminology is:

• Individuals experiencing a diverse away of multiplicity of self found each other through interpersonal relationships and communities, and developed mailers

• With the introduction of Personal Computers and the World Wide Web in the early 90s, these communities moved to emails, websites, and forums. This allowed them to grow and to share personal lexicons that eventually developed into a community lexicon. 

• Most everyone started off as “a Multiple” because of the DSM labeling, or using their own personal terminology(idiolect). The term “system” became more widely popular around the 2010s

• The lexicon continues to shift and develop colloquially to the unique online communities and sub-cultures with which individuals are engaged. 

• Traumagenic is another term for those who have been diagnosed with or would qualify for the diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, or one of the subtypes of Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (DSM-4). Traumagenic systems throughout this history have been more or less commonly known as just “Multiples”, or “Clinical Multiples” 

• Endogenic is a term for those who identify their origin of plurality as something other than trauma, or not exclusively to be caused by trauma. In the case of parts in Internal Family Systems one might get to know their IFS parts and validly identify as plural. They may never present with amnesia or complex trauma. Many Endogenic systems identify as having mixed origins, not all members arrived from traumatic events but maybe some have.
  – Through history have been known as “Non-Clinical multiples” however as DID/OSDD advocacy was on the rise the cracks between the Clinical and Non-Clinical communities became fractures, a canyon, and generally seems to be a hostile territory. The term “Plural” caught on in popularity as a reclamation of identity and means of separating from the peaking hostility of the Multiplicity community. 

• There are multiple dedicated glossaries to documenting the lexicon of terminology developed within the endogenic and mixed origin plural communities. 

• Educators and advocates arose in the community working to educate and bridge the gap, launching grassroots campaigns and organizations that popularized Plurality as the all-inclusive term. (which brings us to about present day)