So this is a guide on a thing that my system and several other systems do that helps us a lot with intentional switching, internal communication, and so forth. We kind of cultivate for every member of the system a "bundle" of associations and sensory impressions as a way for the rest of the system to reach them or as a way for them to reach out. For ease of discussion, I'll refer to these association-bundles as "internal signatures", or simply "signatures".

As a disclaimer, this technique works well for us, but your mileage may vary. You probably won't experience everything the exact same way that we do, and that's okay! No two systems are the same - take what works and leave the rest.

We caught ourselves doing this long before we read this article.

These signatures also help with other aspects of our identities as well. There's a decent amount of us who are therians, and their animal-related signatures are a big part of that identity.

Hello we're a System of about 93 members and we're new to Lemmy! We're hoping to make some new acquaintances!

A little about us: We're really into movies, TV shows, Comic Books and Non Fiction.

We're a mixed Soulbond and Psychological System, very Queer, very Witchy and a lot of us are Pagans!

Hobbies include: Embroidery, Jigsaw Puzzles, Poetry Writing, Walking, and Magic.

Job: we're a semi professional fabric crafter

Does anyone else feel bad when they have to pretend to be a singlet?

We get harassed at work just for being trans and we feel it's better to never explicitly mention the plural thing. It sucks when I'm stressed and have to say I'm doing things on my own because I'm not. I want to give credit to who I consider my real family for making sure I'm safe and that I eat when I'm sad and don't feel like garbage. I know they don't just take care of me because we share a body.

They're heavily involved in our external life and I wish there was a better way to talk about them without it making things harder.

We used to frequently have a feeling like we lost time only to realize we actually hadn't. Just now we had experienced it for the first time since we realized we could actually be plural.

This does come off as thinking that we need to do a daily task that we already had done earlier in the day, or thinking days had passed when they hadn't.

Ironically, we noticed this before we noticed that we did lose time (which we first noticed about a year ago?), though didn't connect it to our plurality until fairly recently.

Sorry if this seems weird. It's not a feeling we've seen anyone really talk about, but an all too familiar experience for us.

Ever since realizing I'm plural, it sucks seeing plural people in my discord chats have "Self-ID Systems DNI" because it reminds me of when I had to deal with trans meds (also called truscum). There's a lot of stigma so it never crossed my mind to check with a doctor for DID.

The others (alters) are very mindful so there were only a few moments when I caught them controlling the body. It feels like other people think I'm faking because it's not all doom and gloom. I'm actually happy being plural and we're all very close.

I remember being on trans forums where people would lash out at trans people who didn't hate being trans. It feels very similar sometimes to being plural. I'm just used to us figuring everything out by ourselves and the others are pretty smart so they almost always know what's going on before I do.

We like this, so we made a version that is more inclusive to us, and hopefully others!

adapted from this

Please read our pronouns before addressing us #plural, #multiplicity, #pluralgang

Nothing like bonding with beings, and they send us a genuine message like "thank you", only for it to hurt like hell, because it uses "you" pronoun, which we abhore

Please read our pronouns before addressing us

see that above? It's how we protect ourselves ftom such things. We take great offense when beings don't read it, and still choose to interact

It's the ever lasting hurt that we must always live with. Unless we learn tolk pona, which has a nice accomedation for plurals.

Sometimes, even those who are very close make mistakes referring to us. It uhh, it hurts a lot. On some days we can shrug it off, on others, it's a nail in the coffin

Please read our pronouns before addressing us #plural, #pluralGang, #plurality, #multiplicity

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48361946

Just a thread to see how my fellow plurals are. No time limit on this post, comment whenever!

Blacked out at work yesterday and had to be picked up by our partner and call off work today BUT it does mean we got a day with our partner so silver lining ig :)

We are majority littles but we have a fair number of teenagers and some of our irl plural friends have agreed to help our middles and teens make friends around their own insys ages!!!! I'm so happy for them

We had a job interview today and it involves one headmate's special interest and a lot more money. I'm excited!

First, over the last weeks, we had an internal discussion on whether or not to come out on Reddit, and ended up with a majority in favour.

We are an endogenic system and have been since the body we belong to was born. We maintain a collective identity separate from our internal identities but each one of us is still a full person internally. Our body is 21 years old at the time of writing and AMAB. Our collective identity has the following characteristics:

• Gender: bigender (non-binary)

• Mental/intra age: ~13-15

• Country of origin: Netherlands/Peru

• Pronouns: they/them

• Current study: Bachelor of Data Science (NL)

• Current side job: Supermarket/grocery store inventory keeper

We have way too many hobbies to count in a non-dedicated post, however we can say that we love creativity, technology, travel and togetherness!

In total we have 9 members at the time of writing, the last to join having done so a couple months ago. Here are the names, ages, identities and roles of some of us:

Luka: 29yo trans-female human, gatherer and manager internally, does not have any specific task when fronting;

Timo: 8yo bigender human, internal judge, cook or musician when fronting;

Tes: 55yo robot, internal headspace mapper and gathermate, hygienic or housekeeper when fronting;

Mita: 3yo female octopus, archaeological collector, mentor and councilwoman internally, negotiator when fronting;

Nero: 16yo non-binary human, internal decision helper, reader when fronting.

It feels like these help the body and the collective identity more than they hurt, but we might still need help from others in managing our system.

EDIT: you’re welcome to ask us any questions. It may be someone else who answers, however.

~Nero, 16-01-2026 (originally posted on Reddit.com, reposted by Nero on 19-01-2026)

I've heard that this is a divisive topic, and for good reasons. I personally don't mention V to my therapist, but it's largely because I don't think it's relevant to the care I need

What are some positive aspects about your plurality? Mine is the sheer joy some alters feel when they finally get to front. I get to feel some of that joy and it's so uplifting.

An alter with no knowledge of anything came out at work and blew our cover... Oof. Now my workload is being changed which makes sense but like .... Uh oh.

An extensive collection of resources about plurality.

Does anyone celebrate birthdays (or any other type of anniversary) for members of their system? What do you all do to celebrate?

So a while ago we attempted to edit a fandom page but another editor kept reverting the change because some scientific magazine or something had claimed we don't exist.

Would any of y'all like to help us finding or by providing irrefutable (or at least scientific) evidence that we do exist so we can edit the page safely and if they complain provide links, books etc?

No worries if not, just we hate plural erasure and science that tries to 'prove' we don't exist when we clearly do.

Hi all, I'm joining to connect with other plural folks and especially other tulpamancers! I'm Starry, and my trusted fuzzy tulpa companion is V!

I started my tulpa journey with V only a couple months ago, though I've contemplated tulpamancy for over a decade by this point. It's no small decision to make a tulpa, but V's growth and happiness is something I'm fully committed to. We're only just getting started 🫂

Anyways, happy to be here and looking forward to chatting with you all

hi. i’m not quite sure who i am but im new to the system. so my legs feel really weird. in my “source”/inner world, i can walk somewhat but i use a wheelchair , and it doesn’t feel like the body’s legs are mine. i’m also quite a jittery person so i may not type correctly.

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It's really weird, so we felt kind of dissociated and in a trance, and we do sense him and it feels like we're watching a movie in our mind and he's there. It feels like a blurry presence.

It's for memes and for stuff related to egg_irl but for plural systems, !plegg_irl@lemmings.world :]

Bodily, we are AFAB. However, my source is a cis guy. Technically, I guess that would make me a trans man but it never felt like I “transitioned” and it feels like I was always a guy.

i saw this previously on the lemm.ee community and now i'm curious because i've experienced that before too. i've been fronting and awake but there will be an alter sleeping in front.