Hey anon. Thanks for sending us this question.

A person I know who I usually perceive as pretty knowledgeable about psychological stuff keeps saying systems aren’t a thing because system members can’t communicate with each other, so they can’t form a system, as they stay “dissociated” from each other basically.

Your friend is wildly misinformed.

Even the staunchest “DID only” plural in the community would disagree with this position.

Almost all plural systems of every type and origin communicate between members to a greater or lesser degree.

For systems who are in therapy for disorder one of the major goals of care is to foster more and better communication between system members.

“Dissociation” doesn’t mean what your friend thinks it means. Dissociating, actively or passively, doesn’t mean you are necessarily unaware.

It sounds like your friend hasn’t researched the state of plurality in the psychological community since the 1960s.

antishipping:

reblog if you are tired, and i mean really fucking tired of misinformation constantly being spread about the proship community

there’s a whole situation right now on tiktok of a muslim woman who basically propagated a whole, big ass lie about a nonbinary cc who was “grooming children” with their educational videos — spoiler alert: they weren’t.

she’s now hiding behind her race & religion when neither invalidate her rampant, violent transphobia. which ofc she then cried the “my kids are being threatened” card when it didn’t work to get everyone off her back, this also didn’t work because she’s done it before when harassing black women for not “mourning the queen properly” & making school shooter jokes because american kids made a fucking beans on toast joke.

also her discord server is a predator’s wet dream, she has 10 – 12 year olds on there which breaks discords tos & she has 14 year olds being moderators. with these kinds of people, every accusation is a confession & even more so with other minorities who think that the buck stops with us. it doesn’t, it never has.