kadybat

[katamari system]

katamari "ellen" j kaplan 💕 kat or kata for short 💕 bi, polyam, trans, writer, devrel nerd, coaster enthusiast 💕 30~

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wife @jkap 💕 aqua suit by craftycovenco 💕 #pluralgang ΘΔ

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Anonymous Guest asked:

What’s plurality to you?

this is a big ol complicated question huh? kinda love it.

it’s… i mean at the essential level, we are a traumagenic system. we are diagnosed with CPTSD and OSDD, and plurality for us is fundamentally a trauma response to prolonged childhood abuse.

but on a deeper level it’s just… it’s who we are. our brain did not form in a typical way and as a result there are many of us working together to live as full of a life as we can possibly live. it’s also not strictly a medical condition. like yes we can trace our plurality back to a traumagenic point but that’s not going to be true for everyone, because for some folks this is just a more sensible mode of self expression, or something deeper, more spiritual. it can mean a lot, it can be a lot.

it can be entities that swear up and down they’re from other planes of existence suddenly appearing within this body and having to learn to operate it in tandem with dozens of others. it can be scrambling to find someone, anyone who can bare the feeling of living through a particularly terrible situation. it can be a longing for a piece of yourself that feels missing, inviting that piece to find its way to you intentionally.

being plural is a trauma response for us, but it’s also the very essential core of who we are and how we navigate the world. it… it’s hard to explain that.


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