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  • inscriptinscript@merveilles.town
    Jul 3, 2026, 1:07 AM

    I ask the following with utmost respect: do ya'll friendses who identify as plural systems use aspects intentionally or coincidentally to scoot and boot around symptoms of particular disorders? (as in: x has ADHD, but y doesn't)

    How does one tell the difference between a 'part' and an 'alter'?

    I'm NOT implying plurality or "DID" is a disorder, nor is this an attempt to conflate the two. It isn't - and I don't think of it that way. If this question is poorly framed, please feel free to correct me if you have the energy - I ask to learn.

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  • cathoscathos@merveilles.town
    Jul 3, 2026, 6:57 AM

    @inscript it doesn't work that way for me, but there are parts that do have more history or trauma around certain aspects of our neurodivergence. many of them seem to have formed around difficult traumas that were about our inability to function 'normally' in hard situations.

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  • lightssporeball@merveilles.town
    Jul 3, 2026, 4:17 PM

    @inscript in our system we don't think of it as "X has anxiety, Y doesn't", but instead "X has the _strongest_ anxiety" - so, while calling on Y or Z will almost certainly help during an anxious moment, that help is coincidental, and the synptoms are not all-or-nothing.

    for your research, you may be interested in the term "symptom holder": pluralpedia.org/w/Symptom_Hold

    with respect to the difference between a "part" and an "alter", we have no answer, as we think of the terms as being synonymous (though we actually prefer a third term, "headmate".)

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