r/plural

Hello, all! We are the Brighthearth System; a crew of approximately 7. One of us, our detective, has found out that we cannot directly talk or interact with each other. It can be visualized, but it feels theoretical, simulatory, illusory, not truly felt or experienced in our inner world.

This is different from when some of us translate or read another facet's writing or hear their words through the shared voice; often times one of us (depending on the day) can speak a good description of the inner world into a voice recorder. We can transcribe that well enough to further know and feel these emotions/places, as if through prose and fiction.

But there is a difference between pen-pals in the brain and the closeness some seem to desire with each other. *Some* of us are too gay and intrigued by each other to not see if we are compatible at this point. I have heard other systems have rich inner dating and love lives. How did such a scenario grow into being, for those of y'all experiencing it?

- Mori 🧵

im trying to explain to someone how i count as a trans woman despite our body being afab

-sniper

i dont really fit in anywhere outside my system

i dont fit in with the tf2 introjects because my personality is so canon divergent

i dont fit in with the trans women because my body is transmasc

i even get the feeling the hosts freinds dont like me as much as our star trek introjects because theyre into star trek not tf2

im so lonely but i have nowhere to go outside the body

-sniper (she/her)

We're a DID system with over 100 (idk the exact number rn) and recently our friend said she thinks we're polyfragemmted. We tried to look more into it but Pluralpedia left us more confused (reading it at 3am probably wasn't the best idea). So we're wondering if any could help us understand what a polyfragemmted system is and how to tell if you are polyfragemmted. Any help would be appreciated
-Ray and Emma

I just realized that I don't really... Talk to my headmates? I mean, I'll ask them something here/there, and every now and then they'll interject, or whatever. But, I don't really take any time to actually talk with them.

Our internal communication sucks (probably since I've never really practiced it) so, im also wondering... How do you tell the difference between a headmate talking, and you parroting? And is it normal for conversions to only last a few sentences?? Sometimes when we talk, they'll say a few things then just disappear mid convo.

It should be noted, we don't have a headspace either so our communication is mainly centered around whoever is in front talking to whoever is closest.

I saw a plural meme a while ago that I keep referencing with friends but can't find it for the life of me. It was a tweet modified to say something like plurality being more person per person. Does anyone have that meme?? I can't find it anywhere and it's such a hit in our friend group

I was 14 years old when I first heard about plurality. I thought it was really interesting. Did some research and just thought that it was neat. I like hearing about others experiences that differ from mine. Around this time my mental health was shit from abuse and dissociation/memory gaps were common.

When I was 16 I went through something pretty traumatic. I ended up creating a character, Ash, for a story. The story was pretty much a self insert about the life I wish I had. Ash had friends and people who loved him. Then i started to realize that I was trans. I hated being called a he but if I pretended to be Ash, I didn’t mind being called he/him. When I would have dysphoric days I used my Ash persona to get by. There are times when she or they pronouns don’t feel right. I started using pluralkit on discord for when I preferred to be Ash. Pretending to be this character I created made me do things I wouldn’t normally do, for example drinking. I also started to make up conversations in my head with Ash sometimes. I started hrt and the number of Ash days decreased. I didn’t need him as much.

At some point I started age regressing. When I was around 19 I fell for this girl who didn’t think age regression was cool but she had a partner who was plural. A new persona, Boo, appeared. Boo is a little and could get the care we needed from this girl. The relationship didn’t end well but I still pretended to be Boo. Boo has less worries and could sleep easier.

Im not too sure what else to say. Open to questions. Sorry if my faking has affected anyone negatively.

Is it alright to call ourselves labels that would possibly come off as dehumanized if it weren't for us being okay with it? As in a label which we assume would probably be rude to just call any plural system/group without permission.

To be specific, for some reason we're tempted to use the term "amalgam" on ourselves.

P.S. if that's already a term for something then do tell us, we've mostly just heard it use either for "a combination of things" or I guess Undertale technically.

Looking for something virtual pet inspired that specifically avoids the word 'pet'! Most of us are people, we only have one animal. But I'm going for the vibe that our brain is a device that has a bunch of nurturable characters on, like a tamagotchi. And instead of having 'system' at the end we'd like the word 'device' or '-gotchi!' I'd love to hear ideas and we can't wait to redo our intros for our new little aesthetic lol, we all love themeing our pages and stuff!

kind of a vent, but looking for advice on what to do? idk, recently (..yesterday but it feels as if it has been more time) i've been looking about did and things like that, and i'm probably gaslighting myself about having it cuz i do not experience most of the symptoms people say you experience

for did, i heard people say you have to have trauma to have it, and i guess as a baby someone invaded my house (my mom told me) and i also experienced a mall shooting, but i do not remember anything about it at all, just me being somewhere in a room with my dad, but idk.

i am questioning why do i care so much about this, am i worried i do not have it? if so, why would i? i have no idea, i tried not thinking much about it but i always end up back at thinking about it, its kinda frustating, idk what to do.

i'm sorry if this is not the right subreddit to post this to

So, I don't know if we mentioned it in our previous 2 posts, but we do have a boyfriend who is a system. Basically we were scared to talk about it with him out of fear/nervousness.

Happy to say that yesterday somebody ripped off the bandage and they were very supportive!! In fact, he actually told us that he suspected we were but figured that he shouldn't crack our egg yet. 😭

Needless enough, we felt very relieved. Very supported. He even invited us into a plural friend server he is in! Everybody was very welcoming and even helped us figure out PluralKit!!! As you can see we're also much more comfortable using plural terms for ourselves. It's a lot more natural now.

We won't make an intro post for now as we're still going through that period of finding a lot of headmates but oh boy,,, we really under estimated our fictive count we can tell you that.

I have a question about a certain experience. It's not something that's happening to me anymore, however it is how I used to see myself.

Some time after I had formed, I began to feel as though, at some point, I had suddenly became an entirely different person (this was before syscovery, so I didn't know that was actually true). I did have memories of a time before that, but they felt distant, like they weren't mine. I concluded that I had experienced an "ego death" and became a new person as a result, and the person who was there in my body before me was someone completely separate.

I knew what plurality was, but I didn't feel like I was plural. As far as I knew, I was the only person in my body, there was just another one before I took over.

So, my question is, if someone were to experience being a sort of "series of people" over time, like I described (so, one person is alone in their body, then another one appears and takes their place), rather than multiple people sharing a body at once, would they count as plural?

I'm wondering because most people's undestanding of plurality bolis down to "there are multiple people in your brain", but what I'm describing is more like "there is only one person in your brain, but they can be replaced by someone else"

'Twas about a week or so ago now I believe, but an acquaintance of ours was talking about some of the story events in Final Fantasy XIV. Having Originated from the land depicted in the aforementioned media, I decided to covertly offer my opinions and thoughts on the subjects. But alas, 'twould seem my stubbornness and insistence that my vocabulary be fully represented did us in, should you be so exaggerative to say even that.

This friend we were talking to later messaged us in the server jesting about how we "talk perfectly like a XIV character sometimes." I thought the observation quite amusing, though my companions seemed to think the situation awkward and worth fretting over.

In the end I decided to make this public post, seeing as how you all are a somewhat experienced community. My intent upon making this is that you all would share your stories of similar events or share your feelings on my stumbling.

- Yours truly, Y'shtola Rhul.

Hello everyone! I'm the host & main fronter of my system. I've only ever lurked here before, but I have a question now and wonder if any other systems can relate or have experienced this!

For the past week, its been oddly silent. Usually my headmates and I talk, have good communication, they'll chime in randomly. Now I can only really hear and speak to one? The rest of them are still there I think, just feels more distant. Headspace feels more distant as well, though I can still "be" there.​​

Anyone experienced this, know how or why lol, etc? Im not used to it being this silent.