We don't pretend anymore. Our legal name even represents our System. Masking sucks

We're openly plural to everyone in our life that we trust.

Work doesn't get to know. Capitalism is an abusive institution that is not owed honesty. We feel no guilt whatsoever about masking at work.

We don't really experience this, though we're very switchy and had accepted that there is no one in the body with our legal name.

That being said, we do hope you and your headmates are able to get into better working conditions. ❤️

I'm used to talking like one person but also, as for this post, I don't think the others are as bothered as who is fronting right now by the pretending thing

Fair enough, I can edit that.

might be worth saying anymany instead of anyone here, considering they aren't just one.

Singlet here. It sucks that you don't feel safe being open about who your headmates are. I hope you have external friends that you all feel comfortable around. :( A couple of my best friends are systems, and I can't imagine any of them being anymany other than who they are. You shouldn't have to pretend. edit: linguistic oops

100%, things for us at work are very much a combined effort and it really sucks to have to hide all of that out of fear of whatever kind of retaliation. We at least take solace in the times and places we are allowed to be open about us and I hope that y'all have similar spaces where you can properly exist. Work has consistently been just a place to fake it, no matter where we're working, but that doesn't take anything away from the system as a whole. - Phoebe (it/its)

<3. We are sorry. Hopefully eventually this will be more accepted/understood in society.

I'll admit that it's stuff I've seen more on Tumblr (where, for the past decade, there is somehow a "debate" on what can cause plurality) and I hear it's also a thing on TikTok.

In all fairness, collectively we don't consider ourselves trans beyond a political solidarity sense, though that's because our body is also intersex than anything to do with our plurality, we consider ourselves collectively ultergender. Though the experiences section doesn't have our experience, which is "our visibly intersex body is fine the way it is, and we refuse to binarize it".

That being said, some of us do consider themself trans, a few of us consider themself cis, and some of us consider themselves ultergender or ipsogender.

We once met a system medicalist offline, she was very angry at us for bringing up anything but DID etc systems as she seemed to have a lot of trauma and thus investment in only medicalised pluraity being the only types of valid plurality.

Thankfully we haven't really met any online.

We didn't reveal we are plural to her, thankfully, but it did force us to come out to a friend about it, so we could explain that we did, in fact, know what we were talking about as apparently the system medicalist then ranted about it on facebook.

She was also a transmedicalist and wanted stronger gatekeeping too, but because of trauma as well, ugh.

We are glad we never really ran into that plural group again as she wasn't that nice of a person in general.

That's very interesting and I'm surprised more people don't talk about this but it may be because of the stigma. I always wondered how plural people who don't identify as trans view themselves in relation to gender (I think only one of us identified as trans internally if that makes sense)

Oh, there's even a word for this phenomenon because of how strongly it parallels with transmeds: sysmeds!

As a plural collective that was heavily traumatized by a cisgender transmed (probably better known as a transphobe), sysmeds really feel the same way to us.

Funny thing is, internalized sysmedicalism is also why it took us years to realize we were plural! This is in spite of two of us having argued about how the body will be presented as, and in spite of us being quite interested in plurality. We don't really relate to a lot of trans egg stuff, but we do relate to that feeling in regards to our plurality.

woah

We have a Windows XP laptop that has Visual Basic 6 on it that some of us plan to use for certain kinds of programming.

Another thing we are looking at is going to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to run Final Cut Studio 3, as we have a boxed copy of it.

We didn't see before the edit, so all good :3

Hero status, thank appie ❤️

Edit: fuck, apologies 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Sure. We're not from the US, but it resonated with us, here's what we have to say:

Would this be an appropriate board to inquire on the differentiation between Yall and Y’all? Completely out of curiosity as someone from the US south, lexically it’s intriguing.

We're doing meh at the moment.

We often like to use pronounless language when we speak. We dislike "y'all", we use "yall", there are reasons for it pinned on our fedi acc, but it doesn't matter, it makes us uncomfy, so we avoid. We would like seeing "how are all doing" instead :)

Please read our pronouns before addressing us

Could provide any examples?

Please read our pronouns before addressing us

We've also been trying hard to figure out a new way of speaking, that is pronounless. Like, how will we refer to those who are reading this? Well, by using "readers"! Hi readers :D, hope readers can understand and won't be bigoted. It happens that some, uhh, special little sasuages out there, like to:

If readers can't read that spoiler, then:

Hurt us more by using wrong pronouns

Please read our pronouns before addressing us

Same for some of us.

In our case, it was roleplay rather than draw but definitely very relatable.

We're doing well. We're in the process of switching away from more modern tech and towards older software.