Curious if any other #osdd / #median / #polyfragmented systems out there have found the Enneagram as helpful a tool as we have…?

As a therapeutic instrument for singlets, it’s borderline useless, but for polyfrag systems it provides powerful loci of identity around which fragments can cluster and meld, greatly easing memory work and trauma processing.

It’s been a fascinating journey for us, and we’re eternally grateful to the system that introduced it to us.

Today I got to use my full name all at once for the academic version of "No True Scotsmen," since I technically wrote it. I'm super happy about it.

Ellis Cú Anann Arcwolf 🐺

Do any of your non-host headmates have a full name aside from your IRL or system name? If so, represent!

#Plurality #PluralGang #Systems #DID #OSDD #Neurodiversity #AcademicChatter #MentalHealth #Psychology #Endogenic #Traumagenic #Sysmedicalism #WritingCommunity #Identity #EllisArcwolf #NameReveal

If science can't prove a singlet exists, how can it disprove a plural?

A critique of Sysmedicalism and the Theory of Structural Dissociation (TSDP) as applied to non-traumagenic plurality. This essay explores the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the ethical necessity of inclusive community building.

https://arcwolf.substack.com/p/no-true-scotsmen

We explore why medical models are maps of illness, not possibility, and how to build a culture that doesn't eat its own.

#Plurality #PluralGang #Systems #DID #OSDD #Sysmedicalism #Endogenic #Traumagenic #SystemSafety #CommunityBuilding #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #Psychology #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #HardProblem #Gatekeeping #NoTrueScotsman #EllisArcwolf

If your history is full of villains, don't reclaim it—dismantle it. A manifesto for architects, not heirs. We explore why whiteness is a double-bladed weapon and how to forge a self-esteem that doesn't rely on the poverty of melanin.

https://open.substack.com/pub/arcwolf/p/pride-and-prejudice?r=6y14a6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

"Pride & Prejudice" is up! Next, hopefully in a few days or less....

"No True Scotsman: The Tragedy of Sysmedicalism in Plural Communities"

#AntiRacism #Whiteness #SocialJustice #Allyship #TCK #Culture #WritingCommunity #Plurality #Sysmedicalism #Systems #DID #OSDD #Neurodivergent #EllisArcwolf

Man... Being Ellis is weird.

A few days ago, something really bad happened, and it made me fall apart. Figuratively and literally, as I broke apart into my constituent holons (i.e., something that is simultaneously a complete whole and a constituent part of a larger, hierarchical system).

Carmen was really upset and disappointed in my functionality as a quasi-fused self. Joan was upset that Carmen was upset. Chaz and Pip were just trying to get everyone feeling better.

But the only thing that solved anything was a choice that Joan made. Joan made the choice, and boom. All four of them were gone, and I—the kepholon (i.e., the head of holons)—was back.

There's no other word for having your system work through a problem that fucking completely as a team. It's just.... #SystemJoy

#Plurality #OSDD #SystemLife #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #SystemWork #Holon #DID

#PluralGang! What are your #SystemJoys? 😸

I just posted the most honest bio I have ever posted in my life, and I wanted to share it. I feel like it will be very effective in communicating my personhood to people it might feel aversive to. Because if someone feels bad by interacting with me, I would very much rather that they didn't.

Highly emotionally unstable, self-castigating, exceptionally well-managed, diversely modular, polymathic genius punk system.

For DECADES I diminished myself to seem non-threatening to people with small and icy hearts. I diminished myself, and they demanded more, until I allowed myself to become unmade.

But I'm lucky. I was able to remake myself. And now I choose to define myself.

I will no longer be taking feedback on my personhood. I did that for 40 years, and it was a bad idea from the start. Constructive criticism, always welcomed. But I will no longer permit a single person other than myself to tell me who or what I am. This is my promise to myself.

Also, like, there's empirical evidence for my definition of myself. I have SHIT self-esteem, so there's A LOT of evidence.

The last part of the bio is just for Discord, but it's a general statement of fact. 😈

I'm safe if you are. If you don't think I'm safe, you're not.

#Plurality #OSDD #DID #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #MentalHealth #SelfLove #Boundaries #SystemPride #TraumaRecovery #Punk

Holy shit.

OK, so I mentioned before how I'm a kepholon (effectively a fluid, quasi-fused state of four alters in a tall trenchcoat).

So, I'm talking about what that means with a friend, and I'm talking about my inner world, the Theater, where every one of my alters has a room. The Blue Room, the Red Room, the Yellow Room, the Violet Room, and the Black...Room.......

That's when I realized I don't have a room back there. And when I wondered why, I realized that...oh. I'm...uh...I don't actually have an inner self, I guess? Or not an independent one. Inside, I'm always four. Outside, I can be this one or any combination of my comprising four. But inside?

There's no Ellis in the Theater.

Except for the spotlight. The spotlight, when all four of my fronting alters sync up on stage, turns indigo. And then I exist. Not an individual consciousness but a collective, emergent process.

I end when they stop.

That's so weird to think about. Thank Camus I'm an absurdist. These kinds of thoughts could fuck a girl up!

#OSDD #OSDD1b #DID #Multiplicity #Plurality #InnerWorld #Kepholon #Consciousness #Emergence #Psychology #Neurodiversity #PostConscious #Absurdism #Camus #Identity #Existentialism #Self

Hey you all,

we hope you will have a great week.

For us, it went from being very tired to having a lot of ideas and energy for the evening.

Hope you will have a lot of energy, too.

What are your plans?

We will listen to albums that arrived in the last weeks, write letters and pack parcels for close friends.

Sascha

#Pluralsys #Systems #DIS #OSDD